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 […]
50,000 years ago, a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky at 40,000 miles per hour and slammed into the earth’s surface with an explosive force greater than twenty million tons of TNT. The iron-nickel meteorite’s impact was so great that it created a massive 700-foot deep crater measuring over 4,000 feet across. Hundreds of tons […]
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 […]
If you’re anywhere in the South or Midwest this time of year, thunderstorms are a fact of life, and it’s not uncommon to be under severe thunderstorm and even tornado warnings. We’ve had a couple of close calls over the years and we keep an eye on the weather but so far we’ve been lucky. […]