So, as most of you probably know/remember, or if you are new
here/have forgotten I live in Oklahoma. That is the reason for me not updating
in a while. Those of you who sent me messages asking about how I was and if all
was well, thank you. I am pretty sure that I have replied to you all by now. If
not, consider this post my reply.
I do not live in either the Oklahoma City or Tulsa metropolises
which is where a great deal of the bad damage was. I live in north central
Oklahoma. We did have a few tornados around where I live, but none that hit
where I am at. The extent of the “damage” that my house and area got was that
the streets flooded and we got some leaves blown out of our trees. The rivers
around where I live were up which is a good thing since we have been in the
middle of a drought and it makes growing our vegetables and fruit hard when the
rivers are low.
While I was not directly affected by the tornados in the
Oklahoma City and Tulsa area tornados, I had a couple of family members and
some very dear friends of mine that were. I nearly got caught in the storms
that produced the EF5 tornado that hit Moore area really hard on May 20th.
In fact, if I had left any later than when I had, I would probably not be here
since I was traveling at the time. If you saw pictures of the Warren Theatre in
Moore, I was actually in that part of the theatre only a couple days before
watching a movie with about 20 of my friends. Of those same friends 1 does not
have a house anymore, 3 have homes that they cannot live in at the moment
because of the damage to their property, and about 10 of them have minor damage
to their homes/flats. One of my friends and a cousin of mine are nurses and
were put on call. My cousin was sent out to help with little kids affected by the
storms. Another cousin of mine is in the Army National Guard and was helping
out down there as well. For those of you who do not know, I volunteer with the
American Red Cross when it was needed. For those of you who did know this and
were wondering why I was not down there helping, here is the reason: there were
so many people down in the area helping that the Red Cross and other
organizations were asking people that were wanting to volunteer to not go down
to the affected areas because there were already too many people. Also, the
meteorologists were predicting more violent storms and they wanted to make sure
that not all of their volunteers were in one area if another tornado hit in
another area. One of tornados that hit the Tulsa metropolis were about a mile
away from my big brother’s house and close to some of my other cousins’ and my aunts’
houses. However, the only damage that they got were some tree limbs down and
some shingles got ripped off.
So, all is well, or a well as it will be until everything is
back to being all shiny and new looking again. Hopefully I will be able to get
back on my schedule. For those of you who are reading this on my fashion and
beauty blog, I was doing a series of monthly posts on the birthstone of the month.
Since June is a pearl I do not feel the need to repost the same thing over
again. Instead, I will post a link back to it down at the bottom. For those of
you who are reading this on my recipe blog, I will be back to posting recipes
again soon! My friends that are from various countries in the world that do not
know much about the weather where I live, tornados and bad storms are fairly
commonplace in Oklahoma. However, ones that are this devastating and horrific
are not. It is very rare that we get ones that are this awful that cause this
much damage.
Those of us here appreciate all the help and prayers that
the world has been sending us! Lots of love and happiness!
Blog Post About Pearls, June's Birthstone, is Right Here!
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