Glasses, Tornado and Chilling in the Floor

I am nearsighted, so my 

glasses are for the 

distance. With that being said,

I basically wear them for

driving. If you see me not

wearing them when driving,

get out of my way! 

👀

HAHA...if I have on 

sunglasses, its good, they

contain my script.

I can read sitting in front

of my laptop without

readers. But when reading

books with smaller print

or directions on packages,

I need readers. I have

that made into my glasses

also, but I have NEVER
been able to adjust to 

bifocals. I do not use them

for readying, I rely on 

readers from Dollar Tree for

reading when needed. I like

the different designs and 

colors but mostly since

I only wear from time to 

time, I was always having

to hunt a pair down.

Not anymore, thanks to 

readers that cost 1.25

I have al colors, all designs,

EVERYWHERE!

The only issue I have is

finding +1.50 in the readers

Dollar Tree carries. The other

day I noticed they had some,

so I picked up some colors/designs

I did not have. 

I keep a pair in the craftroom,

two in the living room,

a pair in be bedroom,

a pair in my purse, in my

car, in the kitchen and 

a pair at work.

Now, I have extras!

YAY!

Plus, at a buck 25

if I break or lose a pair

its not a big issue.

Contacts~ NO...

I have dry eyes and I 

was spending my time

putting drops in my eyes.

Moving on~

In 1998 Nashville was

turned upside down with

some major tornados that

ripped through our city.

I got up that morning and 

almost did not send my

kids to school. Listening to the 

news that I always did in the 

morning to catch the weather

and the traffic. This morn,

there were wicked storms

moving into the Nashville

area. Most of our storms move

up from Memphis

and this morn, there were 

reports of tornados hitting

in several counties moving

up to us.

A lot of the times, they 

die down before getting to 

us but not always. This day 

it was a "not an always"!

I sent the kids to school,

I drove to work.

Just the week before I 

listened to a report about

tornados, and that they hardly

EVER hit big cities.

WOW....

that day I decided not to 

always listen to what you

hear. 

I was at my desk, and I got

a call, it was the super

of the warehouse where we

housed our paper for printing.

He told me that a tornado just 

went through, right past them,

headed to town. 

The lights went out, the 

generators kicked on, people

came rushing down the stairs

to the basement, where the police

out front sent them to the basement.

It hit.

I was a basket case. Kids at

school and mom at home.

Phone lines were dead.

I decided I was heading out.

However, when I stepped out of

the building I was shocked by

what I saw.

Plus, police standing out directing

traffic and trying to rush

you back in, there was another

one coming. 

I was not going back in, I was

leaving town. I made it across the 

street into the next state owned

building. This building was connected to

two other buildings and I just

so happened to know the

way through them and out the 

other end which put me closer

to where my truck was.

Down the street I traveled, to

the state parking lot. Cars were

blown here and there, windows

blown out and I got to my

truck, intact and nothing

wrong. I had a piece of 

insulations blown in between the

cab and the bed. 

Traffic getting out of town was

rough but I was driving a 

big truck and moving in and 

out traffic not giving

anyone the chance to not let

me moving in a lane. 

Had to take the back route home,

through Old Hickory and 

past Cory's school. 

Let me also add that all this did

not take place right after I 

got to work. My daughter was

already home from school. She had 

called earlier when she got home,

was scared and I sent her

to my mom's. 

Cory was still at school and 

the last report I heard on the 

weather radio that I kept

at work was that it was

headed right for his school. 

I got to the school, not

sure what I would find and

there it was, all safe. 

I got Cory, and we headed to mom's.

There are so many ways, rodes

into the subdivision and the house,

but I ran into issues everywhere I went.

Trees were down across the road

or electrical wires. 

Getting right up the street from

mom's I decided to run across

the wire in the road knowing it 

would be fine due to the rubber

tires on the truck. 

Things were good at moms.

Holly (niece), mom, Amber

and the dogs made it to 

the basement to shelter.

Branches out of trees one

tree down and 

a little siding off the house.

Not all the hood was that

lucky.

This whole post

was started from this pic

below.

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Jed, chief photographer of

Photo Services (I was still

working in printing) took this 

shot. The tornado ripped right over

the Capital. Ripping the stitching of

the center

of the state flag right out of 

the rest of the flag. 

I do not have pics of 

the tornado damage on 

this laptop to show but

I will dig a few up to

show in another post.

Thing is, the direction that

the 2020 one took is the 

pretty much the same

route that the 1998 took. 

This was about the time that

tornado alley started to shift 

to make TN part of tornado alley.

Pam

Hi, Misty here.....

I was chilling in the 

floor next to mom's feet

while she sat on the couch.

I love being close

to mom.

Misty