We just had a massive thunder storm with rain here in Lutz, Florida.
What’s up With all These Storms?
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• Tornado watches are in effect until Sunday afternoon across parts of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Storm Prediction Center has warned of the threat of tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and hail.
• The sweeping storm system has left at least 39 people dead, including 12 in Missouri. Severe thunderstorms are pushing east Sunday and delivering heavy rain and damaging winds to much of the East Coast.
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My youngest son just got home safely from Dallas and he’s sleeping.
I’m trying to entice him with promises of pretty girls singing at a country funeral tomorrow at Warsaw and a trip afterwards to Rod Gates of Jordan who has a gun shop high on the military crest, of a hill on the outskirts of Jordan which is part of the greater metropolitan area of Cross Timbers, but he’s so sleepy I’ll leave him be, for now because Saint Patrick’s Day is his 31st birthday.
My good wife asked me from her chair what I was doing and I said reading that Pearl Harbor Book I bought yesterday down by Starbucks.
I made a pot of Yuban and here I am in my garage and three more souls, have met their fate since I last posted.
Rod Gates of Jordan and me and his daughters and all of JC’s daughters and grandsons and granddaughters might be going to be picking and a grinning after Kay’s funeral, maybe way up late.
I need to learn a song maybe Rod Gates of Jordan forgot.
Change the Lutz to Jerden and it might be a regular hit down there!
But I need to remember Gates knows every word of Country Hall of Fame and can identify each character in that hymn.
God might decide I don’t live until Kay’s funeral, you know?
Massive storm system leaves at least 39 dead and hundreds of thousands without power
9:14 ET
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• Vast destruction from a massive storm system sweeping across the US is spreading farther east, with reports of violent tornadoes and severe weather that hammered Alabama.• Tornado watches are in effect until Sunday afternoon across parts of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Storm Prediction Center has warned of the threat of tornadoes, damaging wind gusts and hail.
• The sweeping storm system has left at least 39 people dead, including 12 in Missouri. Severe thunderstorms are pushing east Sunday and delivering heavy rain and damaging winds to much of the East Coast.
Xxxx
My youngest son just got home safely from Dallas and he’s sleeping.
I’m trying to entice him with promises of pretty girls singing at a country funeral tomorrow at Warsaw and a trip afterwards to Rod Gates of Jordan who has a gun shop high on the military crest, of a hill on the outskirts of Jordan which is part of the greater metropolitan area of Cross Timbers, but he’s so sleepy I’ll leave him be, for now because Saint Patrick’s Day is his 31st birthday.
My good wife asked me from her chair what I was doing and I said reading that Pearl Harbor Book I bought yesterday down by Starbucks.
I made a pot of Yuban and here I am in my garage and three more souls, have met their fate since I last posted.
Rod Gates of Jordan and me and his daughters and all of JC’s daughters and grandsons and granddaughters might be going to be picking and a grinning after Kay’s funeral, maybe way up late.
I need to learn a song maybe Rod Gates of Jordan forgot.
Change the Lutz to Jerden and it might be a regular hit down there!
But I need to remember Gates knows every word of Country Hall of Fame and can identify each character in that hymn.
God might decide I don’t live until Kay’s funeral, you know?
Geezus!
Latest on CNN 10:38 ET
If that Alpine Alabama school had been letting kids out to go home no telling how many of them would have died.
But if God gets mad at Talladega Super Speedway in April it will take days to count the dead in that same county.
https://www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/
Rod Gates of Jordan and me and JC can’t count all the stock car racer songs we know, you know?
I’ve heard said God rides with drunks and children.
But maybe that’s just a superstorm superstition?
Latest on CNN 10:38 ET
If that Alpine Alabama school had been letting kids out to go home no telling how many of them would have died.
But if God gets mad at Talladega Super Speedway in April it will take days to count the dead in that same county.
https://www.talladegasuperspeedway.com/
Rod Gates of Jordan and me and JC can’t count all the stock car racer songs we know, you know?
I’ve heard said God rides with drunks and children.
But maybe that’s just a superstorm superstition?
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My college roommate, when visiting over Christmas vacation, observed early on morning to my mother, "Gee ti's nice we're having weather today."
It’s a fact when I was a kid I never paid the slightest attention to the weather.
Old retired men with nothing better to do than practice songs for a funeral where they may not play any guitars, anyway, clean and polish my red Hemi 300S, and stuff up enough Buoy Gold to last an evening, and read the best damned book on Pearl Harbor I’ve read in my life so far, can amuse themselves by watching a superstorm front pass out to the Atlantic.
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Updated 11:54 PM EDT, Sun March 16, 2025
Massive storm system leaves at least 39 dead and hundreds of thousands without power
What we're covering
• A storm system that swept across the US from the plains to the East Coast — bringing dust storms, hurricane-force winds, violent tornadoes and heavy rain — should be moving offshore by Monday morning.• Tornado watches in North Carolina and Virginia will expire early Monday, with lingering threats of damaging wind gusts and hail, the Storm Prediction Center said.
• The late winter storm system has killed at least 39 people, including 12 in Missouri. States of emergency are in effect for several states that are now dealing with the cleanup.
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It’s just click bait, you know?
But what’s gonna happen to the little folks?
I’ve heard say that only God can change the weather, but us older folks need to not consider that Gospel, anyways.