TORNADO DAMAGE
IT'S TAKEN ME A FEW DAYS TO WRITE THIS. YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SEEN ON THE NEWS THE REPORTS OF TORNADOES THROUGHOUT THE MIDWEST. THE FIRST TWO CASUALTIES FROM PERRY COUNTY, MO. IT WAS MY COUSIN MIKE AND HIS WIFE. I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I WAS IN ST. LOUIS PERFORMING IN A DRAGON'S KEEP SHOW. MY SISTER WAS BABYSITTING FOR US AND THE WARNING SIRENS STARTED GOING OFF SO SHE WENT OVER TO MY NEIGHBORS' HOUSE - THEY HAVE A BETTER BASEMENT. STE. GENEVIEVE WAS SPARED. BUT JUST A FEW MINUTES DRIVE SOUTH IS WHERE MY COUSIN LIVED. AND IT IS TRULY A DISASTER AREA. LUMBER SCATTERED FOR MILES. WE HAD A PRAYER SERVICE AT WHAT WAS LEFT OF THEIR HOUSE AFTER THE FUNERAL YESTERDAY. SO MANY RANDOM THINGS TO BE FOUND IN THEIR YARD. SOMEONE ELSE'S STAIRS, A COUPLE OF OVEN RACKS, A GATE FROM A CHAIN LINK FENCE WHEN THERE'S NONE TO BE SEEN, PIECES OF CARS IN SO MANY BLOWN-OVER APPLE TREES. AND ONE OF THEIR GOATS THAT SURVIVED. THEY EVEN HAD A NEIGHBOR WITH A TWO-STORY BRICK HOUSE AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FOUNDATION THAT'S LEFT, YOU WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE BRICKS.
I'M TAKING DEEP BREATHS.
I'M TAKING DEEP BREATHS.