A Day For Weathermen!

Today was either a weatherman's dream or his nightmare! If you live either in Alabama or Tennessee all you had on TV (if you only get ABC, CBS, and NBC like we do)was weather starting this morning and it was still being broadcast at 6pm (the last time that I looked at our TV...no evening news for us)! You can hear the excitement in their voices as they track one storm after another...now, when they have been on a solid six hours, as had the weatherman we were watching in Alabama...well, he was starting to lose his voice! I'm not sure about Tennessee, but Alabama has had one tornado after another today. I know that TN has had our share today too...but we really only heard about Alabama's and a couple of counties in TN...which is is ok in instances like this as the tornadoes that come our way usually come by way of Alabama...so we can watch them track our way! There was one that was headed in our direction this afternoon and Tullahoma's tornado warning siren was sounded at a point, but that tornado fizzled before it got to us and shortly after that things cleared up here. We did get some good rain from that storm. And it cooled down dramatically.


The day started out very warm and quite humid and VERY windy...felt like tornado conditions from the start to me. The winds were out ahead of the front that was coming through. I had school with Esther and Joy and then I went to get my hair cut. Woody left while I was having school with Esther. He had an appointment with our personal care physician, Dr. Harlow, in McMinnville (about 45 miles away). His eyes had been bothering him for several days. We had contacted his NIH doctor and she said she wanted him to see our doctor here. So he made an appointment for this morning. This morning, when he got up, his eyes seemed to be better. Wouldn't that be the case since he had made an appointment! Dr. Harlow said that it was probably an infection that was caused due to allergies. She put in a call to the NIH doctor to make sure that what she prescribed was ok with Woody's Research Protocol. Dr. Harlow called back this afternoon to tell us that NIH had approved the medication...so if his eyes are still bothering him tomorrow, he is to call her and she will phone it in to the pharmacy. He did tell Dr. Harlow about his fall a week and a half ago and that his mouth was still bothering him a lot...her comment: "It should be hurting!"


When Woody got home from the doctor, he suggested that we go for a walk before the storms got to us...so we went out in the wind and a little rain. I took quite a few pictures, but none ever captured how windy it was...except for the picture that I posted tonight...the flag shows the wind...and it took quite a few pictures to get it so you could see it as the wind was whipping the flag around in every which direction. You may have to click on the picture to actually see the flag...well...I will add a cropped picture of the above picture showing the flag blowing in the breezes. I had trouble standing still for many of the pictures that I took today. Woody bought gas and one of the bills that he was paying with flew away and he had to chase it down. Very blustery! Woody left a while ago to walk to the prayer room at church...so hopefully the weather stays calm!