[Magdalen] Storm Prayers

[Jay Weigel]

Apparently Richmond got hit pretty hard. Susan Buchanan reports on Facebook
that they lost a big tree in the back yard which took out their gazebo and
part of their back deck, and my friend Christie was sheltering with both
kids and her husband in a small downstairs bathroom. It's her son's 4th
birthday and sounds like one he'll remember.....besides the train party he
had earlier today!

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It's always something, eh?  Rest easy worry-wise, as Sgt Bilko used to
> say.  I'm sure it wasn't your fault in any way, shape, or form. Let the
> garage worry about the cause.  Here's to an easy answer and an even easier
> solution!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 2/24/2016 5:11 PM, Kristin Rollins wrote:
>
>> We got a tornado warning when I was on the way home from the movie
>> theater (where I saw _Race_ which I enjoyed and which left me with some
>> food for thought). Given that the description gave it 15 minutes until
>> the storm reached our neighborhood and I was only about a mile away,  I
>> pushed for home. And reached it.
>>
>> But the van had a number of issues on the trip home. The wiper fluid
>> started spraying for no reason. And then stopped on its own. The power
>> steering disappeared as I was trying to turn into the driveway at home,
>> and then resumed several seconds later, after much wrestling to try to
>> put my car some place other than blocking both lanes of our street.
>> (Fortunately, there was no traffic that I delayed at that time.)
>>
>> I got it in the driveway and into the house for the tornado warning to
>> pass. When I went back out to try to go pick Heather up at work, the
>> wiper fluid started spraying again. And it didn't stop until it sounded
>> like it was out of fluid to pump, but still trying. At which point, I
>> turned off the key.
>>
>> So Heather may be crossing her fingers and relying on Uber for the first
>> time to get home.. And my fears and emotions are running wild, and
>> finding all too many ways to blame myself and to assure myself of all
>> sorts of horrible things. I am not in a terrible place emotionally right
>> now, but I am a little worried about whether that will stay that way.
>>
>> (On the plus side, we do have a tax refund coming to us, so there is
>> wiggle room that there would not ordinarily be. But I suspect that our
>> road trip is likely to turn into either a car repair bill or a new-to-us
>> car down payment.)
>>
>> And another line of storms due here in 2-3 hours.
>>
>> I could use a few prayers, mostly for staying calm than for any of the
>> physical effects of the storm. My mind is hyper-alert and turning every
>> sound into something tobe fearful of. I am hoping that some of that will
>> calm when Heather gets home and I am no longer here alone. (And we are
>> still until a tornado watch for another four hours or so, but the
>> warning expired a bit more than an hour ago.)
>>
>> Kristin
>>
>>
>