last night there was yet another tornado warning…followed by YET ANOTHER TORNADO.
geez, is springfield going to become tornado alley all of a sudden? will the tornado chasers all flock to spfld, knowing that this is the place to be, tornado-wise?
another tornado, and yet i have yet to see one. yet.
yesterday afternoon we went to see my friend erica in an easter play at her church, westside christian. i believe this is the first religious play i’ve ever been to. it was quite impressive – good acting, great sets, everything seemed to go really smoothly. the people who moved the sets around did it efficiently, quietly and quickly. the music in between scenes was well done.
and erica told me that a couple of guys in the play actually wrote the thing. these westside christians, they’re very very well-organized.
so, not ever being a church-goer, i was a little fuzzy on the whole Jesus story, kind of unclear about who these different people were. erica played Hanna, who was crippled until Jesus healed her. did i mention that erica was GREAT? i mean, she made me believe that she actually had a limp and then she was healed, plus she just seemed so very holy and angelic that i felt bad about all the large amount of swearing i always do around her.
mom and randy also liked the play, although they were also a little vague about the whole jesus story. luckily S. (Saumuel) knew a lot of stuff, including the fact that Jesus had brothers and sisters. maybe just one sister. i can’t remember. he knew many other illuminating facts about the whole thing, but i can’ recall any of them right now.
at the beginning of the play, Jesus and his brother James were just kids, and that made me think about how tough that must have been for poor James. i mean, how do you compete for your parents’ affection with JESUS? the actor playing the grown-up James seemed kind of angry, and i felt that he’d have been less surly if he’d had some counseling. but on the other hand, Jesus came and talked to james AFTER HE DIED, and you’d think that kind of thing would have made James settle down a little and not be so hot-headed.
after all this religious drama, the minister came out on the stage and said that VERY BAD WEATHER WAS APPROACHING, in about an hour.
so we left and it did look like it was going to rain and so S. and i took a little walk before the storm hit. but we’d only been walking about five or ten minutes when the storm clouds were looking awfully close by, and then we turned around and went back to his house…
and then the tornado warnings started coming and there were phone calls to our loved ones and mom said TAKE COVER but instead we went out on the porch and watched the green sky and the wind whipping through the trees. i mean, the wind was really moving and since it wasn’t dark yet we could see it all.
i have to say it was more scary this time, because we actually had a tornado. we were better prepared, with a battery-powered radio and flashlights and stuff. i think everybody in spfld was better-prepared, from what i’ve heard.
so jim leach who was reporting non-stop from wmay said that a tornado touched down at WABASH AND KOKE MILL, which is ridiculously close to where the other one touched down on march 12th. but this one was a bunch of tornadoes all grouped together, so according to some weather expert guy, they kept each other in check, as opposed to the SUPER CELL TORNADO we had previously.
this band of tornadoes whipped through town and didn’t do a lot of damage, exept a little power outage, a few trees down, not such major stuff as before. but other towns like taylorville and champaign got hit pretty hard, they tell me.
is this going to be a month occurrence now? every few weeks, maybe?
it’s just the BEGINNING of the tornado season, mind you.
things are quite exciting back here in spfld, as you can see.
i really have to start on my taxes tomorrow. that’s the only dark spot on my own personal horizon.
plus the fact that i’ve stayed up way way way too late tonight.
i stop writing now.
i hope your week is sunny and warm.
ok then,
monday grace.