We knew when we went to bed Thursday night that there was a chance of strong thunderstorms and tornadoes hitting our area Friday morning. And sure enough, we were awakened by the siren on our weather radio alerting us to a line of storms coming our way from the west, with the threat of tornadoes. […]
What seems like never-ending rain has kept me from doing much work with my Kubota BX2680 tractor since we moved here, but we finally had a few rare days of sunshine that helped dry things out a bit. So the other day I loaded the tractor into the back of our fourteen-foot cargo trailer to […]
For a long time I have labored under the misconception that my son Travis and I were pretty tight. As a single father, I did the best I could by him, and though we have butted heads sometimes over the years, I really thought we were okay. But I guess I was wrong. My kid […]
Tornadoes are one of nature’s most feared and deadly phenomena, and rightly so. Every year an average of 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in an average of 80 deaths and thousands of injuries. Not to mention the many millions of dollars in property damage. I am no stranger to tornadoes. I lived in Ohio […]
It seems like in the last few days, I have had a lot of people worried about us being here on Florida’s Central Coast during hurricane season, based on the number of e-mails I have received from people telling me that it’s supposed to be an active year for hurricanes and wondering what our plans […]
After reading yesterday’s blog, where I talked about tornado warnings in our area, someone told me they would never live in a place that has tornadoes. What can I say? There aren’t that many places in the country that don’t have tornadoes, and every place has the possibility of some kind of natural disaster. I […]
I got an e-mail the other day from a long time reader who just needed to vent. She is 55 years old and has been diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer. The doctors have told her that it has metastasized and the outcome is not going to be good. With Terry having survived stage IV […]
I don’t remember how old I was the first time I saw The Wizard of Oz, but I know it scared the hell out of me. I mean, tornadoes, houses landing on top of people, witches, flying monkeys, a talking lion, and some guy behind a curtain bellowing out orders. I’m pretty sure I had […]
Watching the news last night, they were showing 60 mile an hour winds in California fanning the flames of the wildfires and people using garden hoses to try to save their homes. That got me to thinking about a comment I made in yesterday’s blog in response to the people who were hanging up the […]
Definition of potpourri – 1: a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices that is usually kept in a jar and used for scent. 2: a miscellaneous collection. The second definition above pretty much describes today’s blog, a collection of miscellaneous thoughts and info that I’m sharing because I really don’t have anything else to talk […]
According to the weatherman, we are just about one third of the way through our annual hurricane season here in Florida. The season starts in June and goes through the end of November, so we are about two months down and four yet to go. But, keep in mind that two hurricanes that hit our […]
The big storms that have been sweeping across the country causing problems for people from Texas to the Midwest are supposed to be here sometime this afternoon or evening, and the weatherman is predicting straight-line winds of up to 68 miles per hour, heavy rain, and the possibility of tornadoes. We have a couple of […]
Strong storms raged over Central Florida for much of the day yesterday, with high winds, hail, rain coming down in buckets, and reports of a couple of tornadoes. Some areas got more than their total normal December rainfall in just a few hours. Yeah, it got scary for a while. Sometime around noon our weather […]
If you are hanging out on the Texas Gulf Coast right now you should probably either hit the road or batten down the hatches because you’re gonna get wet! The weatherman here in Florida says tropical depression Harvey is headed toward the Texas coast and very likely will increase in strength before it gets there […]
Last year when I wrote in the blog that we were looking for a place to buy in Florida to serve as our winter base and fulltime home if we ever hang up the keys, somebody asked why we would want to live in a place where they have hurricanes. My reply was that everyplace […]
It’s a fact of life that wherever you do your RVing you are occasionally going to have to deal with bad weather. We have been in monsoons in the Arizona desert that can fill dry riverbeds with raging floodwaters in a matter of seconds, more than once we have had tornadoes touch down within a […]