Tornado!

 

Devastating deadly tornadoes tore through five midwestern US sates last night. 

The loss of human life and property is almost incalculable. I just cannot imagine if one of those tornadoes landed here at our home in southern coastal Delaware. 

My days are consumed with caregiving for Bill. I'm sure that there are were many caregivers in those states that were hit by the tornado last night. I always say to myself, when I'm having a difficult time with Bill (last few days have been a challenge as his cognitive and memory deteriorate), "it could be a lot worse." At least we have a basement. 

Lately I've been giving a lot of thought to an eventual move to Palm Springs. A time when I will need a caregiver. Entering an assisted living facility is totally out of the question for me. I'll end my life before I consign myself to one of those fancy prisons. Good for some people but not for me. A slow death for sure.

I'm not surprised at these tornadoes. Just a few days ago it was freezing around here. Today the temperatures reached seventy degrees. Tomorrow we're back to freezing. What the hell is going on? Climate change, that's what.

We are living in tumultuous times folks. I remember growing up in the boring Fifties. Even then I knew those time were boring but I'll tell you what, I'll take boring now. What with our very democracy being threatened by the Traitor Trump and his enablers, something I always took for granted living in the United States. We would always have our democracy. But it appears that we were very naive in taking our democracy for granted. This is a subject for another blog post so I won't go down that rabbit hole now.

Be safe folks and be grateful that those tornadoes didn't hit you. Notice I don't says the old "thoughts and prayers" because I don't believe but I do have compassion for those folks. Even the Trumpers.

Tornado!

Viserion the dragon

This morning at approximately 3:30 am I was awoken by a "train" roaring through our house.

Then I heard a tremendous crack of thunder. My first though was "Game of Thrones", final episode.  
Viserion was coming!

After that racket died down I went back to sleep. When I got up this morning, as is my usual practice, I looked out my back bedroom window at the oval planter with three river birch trees and this is what I saw:

Oh no!  A major branch of my river birch tree was down.  There goes my shade for the summer. We get the late afternoon hot sun during the summer and this tree was my respite from heating up my bedroom.  Oh well, thank goodness the whole tree didn't come down.

After I had breakfast I asked Bill to take a short video of me inspecting the damage. Then that's when I discovered my neighbors suffered a lot more damage that I did thus proving the point it can always be worse.  

Here are the pictures I took of that damage:

My favorite riverbirch trees. Just like Daenerys's three dragons, I have my favorite river birch trees. Now one is severely damaged but at least it's not a white walker zombie 

Bill and I took a ride around the neighborhood to see additional damage but we saw none. A few twigs down but nothing like trees uprooted like we had here in our little five house radius. Lucky us. Thank goodness no one was hurt.