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The Future’s So Bright
By lmhall | March 6, 2008
We literally HAVE to wears shades.
We push on.
And count our blessings. A friend in Florida stepped out for an hour on Valentine’s Day and came back home to discover a printer cord had shorted and caused a fire in the home office. A good neighbor happened by and saved their house. The cats and dog made it, but they lost their birds. Although the fire was contained to the back office, the contents of the house are covered in smoke stench and the family will have to relocate for at least five months. And they sang praises to the insurance company.
No so with my old friend who I caught up with last night. She just got back into her nest after being blown out of it by a tornado in January. She was home when the twister hit, destroying her garage, barn and tearing out the west wall of her house. They wound up having to shoot one of the horses on the spot. But they were lucky. The storm killed their neighbor half a mile down the road.
85-year-old Rachel Lawson, died when her home collapsed after a twister slammed into her home near Strafford, MO. She suffered a severe head wound and died later at a Springfield hospital.
Her grandson Jason Jacques collected silver dollar coins, soggy family photographs and rain-soaked-quilts hand-stitched by his grandmother. “We’ve salvaged as many quilts as we can,†“We’re finding a lot of memories.” Jacques said, standing amid the rubble. “One of her friends came by and found a quilt they had just started together. She’s going to finish it and bring it back to our family.â€
As soon as my friend settles with the Shelter Insurance Company, she’s switching.
