The morning  started out poorly, 
there  was a brief  encounter with sun up  when an unearthly pall of  dark 
gray curtain desended over the horizon  and filtered  unto the land like a dark 
afternoon of death  

Like a Bruegal painting it boiled and made putrid everything it touched .
Leaving the air languid and  limp stifiling the sences with dull expectations 
and dred. It was all  just too weird ......I mean its  wintertime in  January 
...not March or september The deep South ain't supposed to be like that .  
I wuz planning a day trip   to a  jobsite in Alabama and was still looking 
for my  tooth brush to pack  when it came in over the house radio that heavy 
thunderstorms with  intense lighting were expected within  my route.
I broke from the normal  radio and transfered over to the Short Wave  marine 
broadcast from the hand held I keep on the high cupboard.

#@@!&&%$WHIRR-Whirr  MARINE WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE CHANDELIERS #$%!@WHIRRR 
AND CAT ISLAND.HEAVY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES  EXPECTED  
for coast EARLY MORNING,
Fine that means ... warm humid air pushing up from the coast ......meeting  
this  cold front pushing  down from Kansas and  Alberta ... bad news ... 
twisters.

IT HAD BEEN A BAD WEEK LOCALLY 
; there had been a lot of  unexpected death. 
and knowing  there was twisters coming I didn't feel like contributing to the 
tally .
It was a lot of weird stuff  
A young 20 year old man who was teaching his 15 old cousin how to hunt with 
primitive weapons was accidentally  shot and killed by the 15 yr. old 
The 50 cal musket ball hit the artery in the leg and he bled to death in 4 
mins .
In the next case  a well respected man from another town climbed into his 
favorite deer stand  and decided  it was such a good day ;He  put a pistol to his 
head and pull the trigger; no problems ,no note, no reason; just did it as 
calmly as that 
Then to  make  it a  theesome another  fellow I knew vaguely 
 didn't come home for supper and so when they went to look for him
 he too was found in his favorite tree stand ; dead from a heart attack ;
 (which in most   circles here is the holy of holys of the  desired way to 
go)

WELL 
With the weather coming in I decided to pull the plug on the road trip 
and was glad for it as I learned that night  
the twisters hit the next county over, putting a school bus on top of a 
school 
and tearing through a dairy farm tossing the cows into the air and one 
through a lady's window crushing her (she survived ).
However the most memorable  twister story here is from a couple of years ago 
when a  a farm woman upon hearing the coming twister  put her self and the 
baby in a cast iron claw foot tub and covered themselves with blankets  when 
they  woke up they were found  a quarter mile laway upright and intact  and the 
house totally gone.
Me?
As much as I like claw foot tubs (I got the 6.5 ft presidential out of a 
railroad hotel that was made for the Pres Taft visit)  I don't care for air travel 

besides Iam having enough trouble dealing with OZ and wizards lately and 
don't want anymore  Py   

 

 
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