Pat, wow, with a vacation like that, it doesn't make much difference 
whether you are home or away.  Was there much damage to your roof?

earlier, Pat Ferguson, wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>God is Good! Please read below.
>
>We had a great vacation, as we left on the 16th of June, and on the 
>21st of June, on Friday afternoon  we were on our way home. We ran 
>into nasty weather, and we were between 2 tornados. The straight 
>winds that we were in were  around 100MPH The Pontoon boat flipped 
>into the ditch upside down. The hail was horrible, and we were 
>scared, accept Vernon. I don't know if Dean was scared or not, but 
>Kathy, Allyson, Betty and I were. Not sure about Dan. I kind of 
>think he was scared, too, since he was on top of Kathy and Allyson, 
>protecting them from anything that might have hit them. They were in 
>Dean's truck. Dean and Betty were in their Motor Home, with Mitsy 
>and Annie, and I know they were scared, and Vernon and I were in our 
>Motor Home. We were about 11 miles from De Smet. The tornados were 
>in rain. I would love to have had my digital recorders with me, but 
>I forgot them.
>
>Two guys came by the sceen, and picked up the Pontoon Boat and put 
>it on it's Pontoons, right side up.
>
>I had called 911 3 times, but they couldn't hear me very well. The 
>last time I called them, I made sure they heard me and new what cell 
>phone number I was calling from. Vernon also called them, to make 
>sure they new we were not leaving the sceen of an accident.
>
>After things calmed down a bit, Vernon had me go to De Smet with Dan 
>and Kathy and Allyson, and Dean was the lead in his Motor Home. He 
>dropped the Motor Home in our yard with his boat, and unloaded his 
>truck, and they went back to get stuff out of our Pontoon boat, so 
>no one would steal the contents of the boat. I stayed with Betty.
>
>Dean came back with one load, and he stopped and talked with the 
>Sherriff, and we had lost power for a long time, then he went back 
>to get another load.
>
>The last time he came back, everyone was with him, and Vernon was 
>driving our Motor Home and pulling the boat trailor.
>
>We tried to find a place that was open to get something to eat, I 
>was going to buy, since they were helping us, but Kathy said no. We 
>found the CowBoy Store had some Pizza's left, so Kathy bought all of 
>them, 2 small ones and one large one. We ate and talked, and then 
>Vernon and I came home.
>
>Saturday Morning, Dan, Dean, Kathy and Allyson went with Vernon to 
>get the damaged Pontoon boat and brot it back here.
>
>Saturday night we had another bad storm, but it was not a tornado, 
>just high winds of over60MPH. A tree fell and hit the roof of our house.
>
>Oh, and did I tell you that the Sunday before we went on vacation, 
>my dish-washer broke. Sears can't come to fix it until July 6th.
>
>Life is wonderful! Jesus is my Savior.
>
>Thanks much.
>Love and Blessings,
>
>Pat Ferguson

John