Prayers and Good Wishes for our Members

Cathy, I'm so sorry.  May your Dad rest in peace.  Love and prayers for you and yours.

And the same for you Rick.  Thank God you're OK.  Hope all goes well.  God bless you too.

If anyone would like to light an candle...http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=Bopp....

Bopp is my "earthquake" host site, we have an place where people can report their problems and we take it here to this site do prayers for them. LadyinRed just lost her husband and he was not of retirement age...but had an disease. She's trying to pick up the pieces now also. My condolences Cathy..not to much else I can say that hasn't aready been said in ways. I just got done reading an article sent to me how they want to reduce the pay outs for the elderly in the coming years, and hope they don't  do it...they should put an anuual income limit on how much they help who....and those whom have good pensions/health backing pay an bit more  then those whom don't..so all  are treated fairly. We live in an society now where an person can be comforatbly wealthy one day and have nothing the next....there needs to be an "balance" included somewhere. There have been many people leaving the earth plane for quite some time now.   

So sorry Cathy but also glad that your father is now at peace. We are thinking of you at this sad time.

Rick is unscathed but shaken. He was on the highway when the tornado hit and he said it was a very frightening experience.

Steph, is this the tornado that took out an shopping cener in Denver recently , been talking about it in another web site out of Nevada for most of last week. I guess it really tore the snuff out of everything...we have an lady lives there in the vacinity, she was saying that it nearly took out the radar for the area, which would of greatly affected flight patterns, as well as weather reports...she claims it passed it by nearly inches from destroying it all.  She was gearing up on her little radio to use it for an tornado warning device...asking about if since we now have all been made to go to digital TV as of June 12th if it picks up such stuff. I think they said "no". ..Hope Rick is OK...last time I was nearly in one, we spun out in an section fo the highway takin up as it passed in front of us..and ran over bricks and then did an complete turn around and all I remembered was mud on the windows all around us, before coming to an stop. I was an little kid back then, and we were in the Midwest visiting relatives. Scarey enough for me.

PS..we were traveling back to my aunt's house  at night, and came upon it crossing the highway unexpectately in the middle  of seemnlgy no-where. Ever since then I don't travel the area at night much back there. It did leave me with an fear of spinning off into an deep irrigation ditch though, drowning possibly ..so I just play if safe when I'm back east and settle in at night before the thunderstorms in the summer time build up in the afternoon..and evenings. One took out my grandmother's house when I was an kid, and another just a couple of years ago took out half an small town my uncle lives it...place I was born.  His house was Ok, but I think it took his barn, if I remeber rightly...and it sat just yards from the hosue. When I called back there, because this was on CBS national news ...I could barely hear my aunt for the helicopters in the area...but she said she was more worried about the water they had then the destruction, as she was afraid if it got any higher it would go down into their basement. It hit an senior citzen's home she worked at for years back then..most likely why it was on the national news. My other uncle was there she said, both looking things over. My uncle has heart problems also you know. She has since passed on, an I have no idea if he has or not..most likely though. I know he gave up his business thereafter....though it may be one of his sons is running it now. Tornadoes are an awesome force of nature. They defienalty have an way of changing people's lives.

I dediate these to your father at this sad time cathy

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It takes time Cathy, memeories are always there though...this last 30 years, I've lost my mother, my dad, my grandparents, all my dad's family, all my mother's sisters and brothers, might have two left..three neighbors, several good friends. Kind of like I never had anyone pass on in my youth, they all waitied until now pretty much. Three brother in-laws as well...several cousins. Four kids under the age of 21 years old also. It leaves you an bit "numb" to the world at times coping with it all.

Thank you so much Shirley for thinking of me today. I am missing my dad a lot. Just two weeks ago I was planning with him to stay at my mom's and make him some donuts for Father's Day. He hadn't had them in years. I thought it would be a nice treat for him. I hope he knows I am thinking of him.

I'm so sorry for all of your losses too.