March 16, 2006

The Aftermath

The attacker, photo taken by local resident light was generated by a lightning flash!, Photos on this post courtesy of The Hometown Channel.com
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I thought that I would post a few potos of our local disaster. I am still amazed at how violent the storm was and how much damage that it did. We hear now that the twister was a F3 on the Fujita scale, thats a big one
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Hail at Pea Ridge dropped about 4 miles from my house
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there was baseball size hail just a short distance from my home. We had pea sized and it wasnt as hard, sort of mushy
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More hail...
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New construction. I understand from a co-worker that escrow just closed on this house. That would be horrible.
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This is a housing tract out in Centerton near where my co-worker lives. The twister jumped over his block and landed on the next one. Thankfully no one was killed or seriously injured
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Our new high school's ball field, field house was destroyed and the stadium was heavily damaged
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We are all now concerned that rebuilding will take a long time. My seatmate was calling for estimates to fix his truck and roof and the repair bills are out of sight and the lead time was streaching into months, there was so much damage. Woody has had several families bring in damaged vehicles to the car lot as the insurance deductables are so high that they are choosing to use those funds as part of a down payment on a newer car or truck. This of course is good for Woody and I am glad that he is getting so many chances to try to sell smething. So far that situation is going well and I hope that he is able to stay there as long as he needs a job.

My job situation is stable but I feel like a disembodied spirit. I dont have any duties assigned to me. They took all of the work off of my desk this week and gave it to a gal that will be staying on with the account. I was feeling really odd about it but there are a lot of opportunities comming along and should I want to take advantage of them I can.

My eyes are doing well. I was in to see the doctor and I am in need of more tear production so I am using a bottled solution and we shall see...(no pun intended) There is a feeling that we may have an "under correction" where my vison is still not as good as it could be so we shall see how things go in the comming days.

Misty Pasture photo by Bentonville resident Carol Tavener