Weather 2008

It seems almost impossible to have a blog and not comment in some way about the weather of 2008. The Waterloo Public Library had a few inches of water in the basement. The Cedar Falls Public Library did not get any water. Both libraries were closed for a period of times, and have provided services to those affected by tornadoes and floods this year.

The FEMA project worksheet makes my head hurt. It appears to be a spreadsheet that expands into about ten dimensions. Also on my desk is a dirty page from a children's storybook. It appears to be the last page of the story, as the picture shows smiling dad holding a little red-clad girl high in the air, as a grinning woman waves good-bye. The text: "And from that time on, Little Red Riding Hood never, never stopped to talk with strangers."I found it in my yard on the night of May 25, "the night of the tornado" as we refer to it now.

I gathered that it was from Parkersburg, because of addresses on other documents I picked up. That's about 80 miles southwest of me. Seems like there should be a trite conclusion to draw from these words, ripped out of some child's room and blown eighty miles away....