<!--quoteo(post=285060:date=May 3 2008, 12&#58;29 PM:name=JoeyandDavid)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JoeyandDavid &#064; May 3 2008, 12&#58;29 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=285060">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=285058:date=May 3 2008, 10&#58;15 AM:name=55ChevyLady)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (55ChevyLady &#064; May 3 2008, 10&#58;15 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=285058">&lt;strong&gt;QUOTE BELOW&lt;/strong&gt;</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It was bad around here. As of this morning The Arkansas Democrat is reporting 8 deaths in Arkansas. One death is especially sad, a 15 year girl was killed when a tree crashed into her home while she slept. There was no tornado in the area - just high wind.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />Glad you and your family is safe&#33;<br /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br />Thank you for your thoughts.  Arkansas has had it bad lately.  In early April we had several tornados near us, 3 in fact.  There was alot of damage as close as 2 miles from us, we just lost power for about 18 hours.  There were deaths associated with those tornados also.  <br /><br />You can always replace material things, people you can&#39;t.  That is what makes tornados so scary.  They are so hit or miss, your neighbor can be blown away and your place hasn&#39;t even lost a tree.  <br />I have seen it,  My daughter&#39;s school got hit 3 years ago and I saw what got hit and missed.  It was if the Hand of God was protecting the buildings where the children where and destroying trees and buildings and ballfields where nobody was.  There was a house on campus 100 yards from the building my daughter was in, nothing but the slab left of that house when the storm passed.<br /><br />By the grace of God no one was injured at school during the storm.  Unless you count the cut I got climbing over a fallen tree trying to get on campus to get to my daughter&#33;  I also got chewed out by the Fire Dept. for getting on campus while there was still live electrical wires down,  but I just told them, &quot;Hey, you guys are stepping over them, so am I and I am going to get my daughter&#33;&quot;  They thought I was crazy but they had bigger problems to worry about.<br />P.S.  I am really sure they were not LIVE WIRES, I think they were just telling me that to get me to get off campus&#33;<br />Andrea