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Storms – Everybody ok?
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With all the wicked storms over the last days and all the destruction, I just wanted to check and make sure everyone on the forum is ok – we had warnings, but nothing materialised here in St Louis area thank the Lord. How is everyone else. My prayers and thoughts are with all those in the troubled areas. Once the dust settles and they need help, we will try and do what we can – whether financial or physical. Linda
Wanted to add we are praying for everyone also. Other than a lot of snow all that once we have God’s sun on us now. Thoughs so are not so lucky you are in our thoughts and prayers. Misty
We are now living back in Alabama in my husband’s hometown. We are about 25 min from Tuscaloosa. It is amazing how people here now respond to an impending threat of bad weather. Spent the first 18 years of my life here and never saw such anxiousness. Last April’s big tornado is still very vivid in the minds of people here. This area made it fine – but not without much anxiety.
Glad that area was spared this time….the anxiety lives forever I can tell you that from our hurricane experience. We are always afraid and anxious when the storms come now, I am really afraid of what it can do having seen it first hand. I understand that only too well….I feel for everyone who suffers these weather things…
Linda…. I am from the St. Louis area too. I don’t get to post on here as often as I would like, but I do check in with the forum several times a day. Anyway, nice to know you are so close!
About the storms… my parents were in Branson when the tornado hit last week. Luckily, they are ok. Their puppy dogs were in a Kennel in Buffalo, Missouri which was hit with a tornado too. They are all ok too!
I was worried sick about my parents when I heard there was a tornado on the Branson strip and the Walmart was damaged. I knew they were staying in the hotel right by Walmart. It was the longest 3 hours to wait until I could get a hold of them. It was their first vacation in over ten years. Needless to say, their vacation was cut short. They were just thankful that they weren’t hurt and their dogs were ok.
Tammy
I know of at least one member of this forum who lives in an area devastated by tornadoes. I sent her a pm on Friday afternoon, but haven’t gotten a response. We are praying that they are safe.
Oh Tammy, what a way to end a vacation – that is awful, but a true blessing that they and their dogs are safe and sound…the alternative is too horrible to contemplate. I live on the Illnois side of St Louis across the river, nice to know another cmer is nearby….I hear more storms likely in our area Wednesday/Thursday and at the weekend maybe…hopefully not bad ones. I have had enough of the basement already….Linda
So are you contemplating your color schemes and comfy furniture for your basement Linda? I know what you mean about having had enough! I always think that if we are down there that it is always dark…for some unknown reason I never feel like having a tornado in the light. Maybe because most of the ones I’ve been in it’s always dark.
So, in my new house I am thinking lighter colors and a comfy chair instead of a food bucket to huddle on, a dark hole and a little radio. =) Not even books can distract me during the storms of this magnitude, but the kids do better with books, snacks and coloring pages. It helps calm them all.
Tammy – I am in SL area too. Fun! We should have a CM day at the zoo or museums. So thankful that your parents made it okay.
“sheraz” That sounds like fun… We have so many great things to do in the St. Louis area that are free. Our favorites are the Zoo, Science Museum, Powder Valley Nature Center and the World Bird Sanctuary. We should make a playdate for all our fellow St. Louis SCM’ers!
“Linda” We are pretty close then. We live about 20 minutes south of St. Louis on the Missouri side. Unfortunately, the storms seem to intensify once they cross over into Illinois. So many storms already and the “storm season” hasn’t even officially begun yet. From what the weathermen are saying, we are in for a rough season. I will be praying for everyone’s safety and protection.
Tammy
We have a small part of our basement finished – when we got this house we asked that some of it be finished because we were all so shaken from the hurricane – I wanted to be able to go somewhere – carry on with school and be able to act like all was well with the storm raging outside. We wanted somewhere that the girls would be cosy and not so scared, so it is a little room with my sewing machine, craft things, bookshelves and a sofa and chair and coffee table. The furniture I had shipped back from England when my mum died, it was her sitting room furniture, and so now I love to go down there, because it is like being home. Ed calls it my European room – I call it my favorite room in the house, and I love to be down there. We are still scared of the storms but at least we can keep on reading and pretend nothing is going on outside.
We should all go to the zoo what fun that would be, I was there a couple of weeks ago and it was lovely.
Small world, I lived in SL when my oldest was born at St Johns Mercy. I miss that area but we visit once or twice a year. It is so nice to do the many free educational places there like the zoo, Grants Farm, art museum, etc.
Oh and I LOVE City Coffehouse and Creperie!! Wish we ladies could meet there. 🙂
We had a tornado hit just a couple of miles away (outside of Chattanooga). Thankfully no fatalities. A couple in our church lost their home. The husband got pinned under the 2nd floor when it collapsed. PTL he is going to be okay! The tornado came through early afternoon, and then we got hit with a major hailstorm. Hail was about golf ball size, and after it was over it looked like it had snowed! Our home suffered some damage along with DH’s truck, but it’s stuff, you know? Most of it will be covered by insurance. We are just thankful it wasn’t worse and no one was killed in our area.
So happy that you only suffered some minor damage to things and not yourselves…stuff can be replaced, people cannot…I am sad for your church family – it will be a longer road for them losing the house, I can relate – there is a lot of uncertainty goes with that, and even with insurance a lot of time has to go by before things become normal again. I know everyone will rally round them though, and that is the main thing. Hope you get your things fixed up soon, and that your little ones were not too shaken by it all. We spent a weekend in Chattanooga, really enjoyed it, and saw that the storms had gone there – glad no fatalities.
Simple Home and Tammy perhaps like Sheila suggested we could all get together and have a fun time in St Louis, that would be super….on a day when no storms are forecast though please!!! Linda
Would love to meet St. Louis residents sometime. Let me know if you all ever set a date, I will have a drive to make. 🙂 We usually go in the late spring, sometime around Memorial Day.. We could meet for coffee/tea and chat, how fun!
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