HI Janis,   
      
   On Sat 2011-Aug-06 00:41, Janis Kracht (1:261/38) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
      
   > Which they could easily do, but no time to think about run   
   > then.   
      
   JK> Yeah, more like the old duck and cover we learned in gradeschool I'd   
   JK> think.. except this would be duck and run :)   
      
   IF possible on the second part.  IF not, how is it we used   
   to say it?  Bend over and kiss your posterior goodbye >   
      
   >> but then, back in '08 that tornado sorta took out my shack in   
   >> the woods here in TEnnessee too. I was   
   >> running a sky warn net meanwhile, the weather service   
   >> operator had been told to evacuate to the basement.  I was   
   >> on battery power running a sky warn net and my rottweiler   
   >> puppy in her crate was going crazy.   
      
      
   JK> Dogs are so sensitive to weather, it amazes me.. when we living in   
   JK> KY, our Labs were our "early warning" system    
      
   YEp, Schotze is too, and these days my bones sure are.   
      
   > Yep, tore the back end of the house up, roof off it, dropped some pretty good   
   > tree limbs but my funky 30 foot tower   
   > remained standing.   
      
   JK> That's good.. I chuckled a bit though when reading your description   
   JK> of what "nature" did to your home - not that it's anything to   
   JK> chuckle at, but it made me remember thee damage those Labs did on   
   JK> the house there in KY.. darn.. Priscilla and Midnight (two female   
   JK> labs from the same litter) literally ate the plasterboard and wooden   
   JK> floors .... thankfully our current full-breed Lab, Toby doesn't   
   JK> care for plasterboard or wood.. But I've noticed our Lab mix pup   
   JK> Sophie liking the taste of our floors here though Lol.  What they do   
   JK> is lick the floor until the wood softens and then it's easy to dig   
   JK> through with they're teeth   Sophie does notice when any   
   JK> thunderstorms, etc. are coming, and makes sure to let me know   
   JK> .   
      
   YEp, Schotze's good at that.  I heard it grab that roof from the back, and the   
   dog going nuts in her cage.  My neighbor   
   was wanting me to run with him, I'd told him, since he and   
   his wife were trailer dwellers as well to get the heck outa   
   dodge, he wanted me to load up Schotze and go with him, I   
   told him Kathy was out and about, and I was busy on the   
   radio.  HE then says if I won't go with him they won't go   
   either.  I argued against that and said just because i might appear slightly   
   insane he should get his pregnant wife the   
   hell out of there.   
      
   WE spent a couple of weeks in a motel again after that mess, but salvaged our   
   stuff, a little plywood on the hole in the   
   roof, and hunt another place to live.  tHe one that was   
   depressing is seeing the place that Katrina and the   
   aftermath fire destroyed.  I sat there running that skywarn   
   net the night it got my place up here though and heard that   
   familiar freight train roar overhead and will always   
   remember that sound, and Kathy telling me that the fool   
   manager at the WAlmart where she was shopping wanted all the nice sheeple to   
   gather under the big skylight in hte middle. She was shopping using one of   
   their little battery operated   
   ride 'em carts for those who can't walk well, and she told   
   him she wasn't going to go out under a skylight but would   
   stay where there was actual roof over her head.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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