Texas Tornados

Ah Spring, the time where a young mans' fancy turns to love and everyone who lives in tornado alley holds their breaths, waiting to hear that dreaded siren and run for their lives. We have had two storms over the past two weeks that have produced tornados. There has been only one death when a young man hid behind a stack of lumber and suffered a heart attack when the wood fell on him. Not to bright, but considering we have had a total of 12 tornados in the Metro Plex, it could have been worse. Yesterday we had some storms move through and Fort Worth area had several tornados touch down. Mike and I were taking a nap and when our alarm clock went off the radio station was telling everyone about the tornado warning. We got up and turned on the TV and watched with much concern the line of vivid orange and red colors that were heading our way. Sandy had an appointment with her therapist and we called and canceled that when we heard that Denton county (where we live) was also under a tornado warning. We had told her we would pick her up after school so when the time arrived, Mike went out to get her. She comes home and tells us that the school officials had them in the halls because a funnel cloud was over the high school. She said the sirens were going off and the principals were on the PA system, telling them to stay where they were. What worried me was that the sirens were going off and we did not hear them! More then a slight concern. So we are going to get an all weather radio alarm clock that is connected to Noah weather radio and will go off if there is an alarm of any kind in our area. I will admit that I am terrified of tornados and if it were possible I would spend March through October in an under ground shelter. Perhaps when we build our own house we can do something like that.

Yet more proof that men don't have a brain

Mike did something yesterday evening that confirms what I have been saying for years. Men have no brains. It got chilly last night and we decided to build a fire. We had used sticks and boards we had found around the neighborhood. One stick, while brittle, was too long to fit in the fireplace. Mike goes out into the garage to break it. He leaned it against an empty kitty litter bucket, with plans to snap it in half. He puts one foot on the bucket (you can see where this is going) lifts his other foot and at that time the bucket crumples and shoots out from under him and down he goes. I am in the living room adding pieces of wood when I hear a thud then "Ouch, that was really stupid". My first thought was "Oh God! He has fallen and hurt himself." I go out into the garage to find him on his feet, holding his right upper arm. I ask if he is OK and he says he doesn't know. I look down and find the bucket in pieces and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what has happened. I ask him what happened and he tells me the sordid details. He is fine, thank Good. He has a bruised arm, scraped back and shoulder and wounded pride. I told him that from this point forward, if he gets anymore of these "brilliant" ideas to run them past me first. He will never live this one down.

How stupid can you get?

There was a story in tonights (4/4/07) news about a woman who came home to find her apartment being burglarized. She watched until they left and then followed them. At some point they realized that they were being followed and started shooting at her. She was very lucky, she walked away with only a flesh wound to her lower arm. What really upsets me is that this idiot woman had her three kids in the van with her. They were unharmed, but can you imagine the terror these poor kids felt as bullets were hitting the car that they were riding in? This poor excuse for a woman admits that she shouldn't have done this absolutely stupid stunt. My take on this is that she should be charged with reckless endangerment of her kids and CPS should be brought in and those kids taken from her. At least until she proves that she is putting the kid's welfare above her own.