Month: April 2011

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Too Graphic

When the original  CSI came on TV years ago, I liked some of the new filming technicques they used to make the crime lab and autopsy rooms seem realistic. I’m not a big fan of graphic crime scenes, too. I don’t like to see people being cruel to each other – it hurts my heart.

Now the crime scenes and the lab scenes are getting extremely graphic and gory. I don’t even enjoy watching the show any more – it is too graphic and upsetting for me. Call me a sissy, but I think they could have a good show without all the extra gore they use now.

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Straight Line Winds

When you see the incredible amount of damage that wind can do, you gain a new respect for the power of Mother Nature. In Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Illinois we see dozens, if not hundreds, of tornadoes every year. This part of America is known as Tornado Alley.

But there is another kind of wind damage that gets reported on the weather and news channels now. These are straight line winds. The winds is extremely powerful and can do as much damage as a tornado, but the wind does not rotate – it just goes screaming across the land in a straight line, leveling everything in its path.

I believe both kinds of wind do a lot of damage every year, especially in Tornado Alley. We had some winds last night that broke off tree branches, knocked down full grown trees, blew trash cans and patio furniture across the yard and flipped empty 18 wheeler trailers. They say we did not have a tornado come through here last night, but the amount of damage looks like it. It must have been some strong straight line winds then.

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Sad News From NYC

There has been a lot of bad news on TV these past couple of days. I don’t know why people can be so cruel to each other. I get very upset when I hear about a mother who commits suicide and kills her small children at the same time.My girlfriend, Robin, told me about this story from New York. The woman drove her car into the river and drowned herself and two of her three children. It was a miracle that one child survive. The little boy was able to roll down the car window and swim to shore. But what kind of life will he have now, with no mother and his baby brother and sister dead?

 

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A-choo!

Wow – this girl has been sneezing all day long. What’s in the air that is making me sneeze?

I don’t have “allergies” like so many people seem t have. But with everything blooming and pollen everywhere, there must be something new out there. I have gone through half a box of Kleenex and scared my dogs a at least a dozen times with my big sneezes!