TORNADOES and TOTO

DANGEROUS TORNADO REPORTED IN COLORADO!!

Two weeks ago, I’d just logged onto the internet. And there it was.

A tornado in my home state. I clicked on the site.

Wow…modern tech & meteorology.

Here I was 2000 miles away watching a tornado

tracking across northern Fort Collins,

right where my sister lives. Would she be home

at 12:30 in the afternoon?

I grabbed my cell phone…and was surprised to

get a signal in my classroom.

Like, how often does it happen??

“Where are you?” I asked as she answered her cell phone.

She was at home.
“What’s the weather like, there?”

She described it as rather strange.
“You’re having a tornado.

Grab Toto and get into the basement,” I warned.

She has a little purse dog, Penny, and

medium sized back up dog named Kita.

Her husband was also home and she relayed my message.

As we conversed, he ran outside to see what was going on.

Within minutes he came back in their home,

“Let’s get to the basement.”

Thankfully, their home was spared.

But only 10 miles away in Windsor, many homes were not.

One friend of hers lost trucks and equipment

from his landscaping business.

However, none of his employees were lost.

Thankfully, 2 had tried to drive away from the storm in their pickup

when the windows blew out. They stopped,

took cover in the ditch & were very lucky,

as their pickup took a tornado trip.

Glad they missed that flight.

Semis overturned on the interstate in northern Colorado

************************************************************

THE MID-ATLANTIC AREA NOT TO BE OUTDONE---
Recorded tornadoes 1950 to February 2008
COLORADO = 1674
OKLAHOMA = 3488

(Oklahoma City has the most twisters of any US city)
MARYLAND = 271 tornadoes….7 deaths.

I am not sure what the sum will be by the end of this month,

but we are having a record number of violent storms here

by the Chesapeake Bay this year. This week was wild.

On Wednesday we had our first ever Tornado Lock down at school.
Congregating away from windows, our biggest excitement was the
4th grader who was on the elevator by himself & the power went out.
Thanks to quick & compassionate facilities’ guys, he was rescued
through the shaft. Giving us all something to talk about.
Later at home we spent 15 hours without electricity

These two last pictures are of clouds not far from our house.

We lost power in the middle of the night.

Overcast skies meant no moonlight.

The darkness was dense as I felt my way

downstairs for the flashlights.

Later as I pondered my desperation to find light when I couldn’t see,
I couldn’t help but think of God’s word being light---
even in our whirlwind. But especially in our “darkness”.

When your dread comes like a storm & your calamity comes like a whirlwind…Pr 1:27
(His) word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Ps. 119:105

Okay, so I may have pieced some verses together.
Nevertheless, He is the light & I seldom seek Him as desperately
as I need to. Or as I do a flashlight in sudden darkness.