Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34343471-20180815215554/@comment-35319541-20180819233930

Don't worry Opal, one day he just might surprise you are remember to tell you all the fun and good things that happened in his life. When we lived in California, we watched all those shows about tornados, which was cool at the time, cause the only thing to worry about in California is earthquakes. Well, that being said we ended up in Illinois when the two youngest ones were 3 and 5 years old, of course after watching all the tornado shows, ugh, we moved in with my brother and his 2 kids, grades 8 and 9. They lived in Illinois all their lives so the storms were something to get excited about, not be afraid of. So anyway about a month later, up comes a whopping big windy storm, and my nephew looks out the front door, sees the dark storm, the siren goes off, and he announces "wow look at that tree bending, its coming, quick head to the basement" my kids were so freaked out after that, they seem to just now, 19 years later, to not get so worked up about the storms. My only way to console the little  ones was to point out that the house had been standing for 100 years, so I thought we would be safe enough....They didn't buy that theory....nor do they laugh when reminded how they would freak out when it rained and insist we go to the basement, which was just about every time it rained for years.... Now the dark due to no power, I made it like a big overnight camp out, we all had flashlights and played tag with the beams, that, they thought was really cool, we used to lose power even on warm sunny days, that would last thru the night. Not so much now thank goodness.