Iowa
Posted By: Apple Scruff on 2008-05-28
In Reply to: My heart and best wishes go out for Iowans - ermt
I don't live in northeast Iowa where the big stuff happened recently, but thanks for thinking of my state. My husband's parents lost their house and most of their possessions a few years ago by a twister here in Iowa. They are real and sometimes not taken terribly seriously. I have spent many a storm looking at the green sky and the eerie calmness before the winds pick up instead of getting my butt to the basement. However, I think hurricanes and earthquakes look terrifying over a tornado, but they are all incredible, I imagine.
The saddest story to me was that two of the people killed in the recent tornado were elderly and it was thought that they couldn't make it to the basement, according to the local news. :(
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Thank you from Iowa
Appreciate the good thoughts. While I'm about an hour directly south of where Parkersburg, IA, is, that night was spent huddled in the basement as the whole eastern side of Iowa seemed to have tornado warnings going off. I've lived through a tornado as a child, and the total destruction of this past weekend was really too much to comprehend-even after having been through it before. Iowans truly thank everyone who has said a prayer or donated time, money, goods--what a terrific country to live in. In times of trial, Americans truly show their best sides! :)
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Iowa feels like fall too!
I just am not really thrilled for the thing that follows fall. I hate hate hate hate hate hate winter.
We were in the 40s temperature wise this morning. I have my portable heater toasting my toes when I work!
I am originally from Iowa so I know whatcha mean.
My sister lives there now and is actually Wiccan. Can you imagine how well THAT goes over? LOL!
August 22nd for my 1st grader here in Iowa
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Apparently paying my Iowa taxes
Man, they've gone up. Dang it all to heck.
Otherwise, I'll be using the difference by knocking out my small bills in anticipation of paying off our zillions of dollars worth of student loans in about 800 years.
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