OMG I HAD A FRIEND IN HIGHSCHOOL WHO HAD A RANCH IN REFUGIO!!!
CRAZY!!! It's so teeny tiny. I still have cousins there. I haven't been back in a while (last time was when I moved back east in 1995 the year after my grandparents died) but my folks go there every year or so. And my one cousin John who is the maintenance man at the Catholic church there and who sounds just like Boomhauer (sp?) from King of the Hill comes out this way for vacation every year.
In my head we are like long lost cousins now.
haha! I'd be honored!
do y'all pronounce it refiurio?
lisah went to school in the same town as I did for college and now lives very near where I am sitting. msbelle's relatives worked in the schools when in my hometown when I was there and I think she actually lived there too (though not when I did...I don't think) and now the two of them have bizarre unlikely connections to podunk and this is all very strange. Because neither of you are quakers and that's usually the way my worlds get all tangled. Or prove to be tangled. And how didn't I meet y'all sooner?
do y'all pronounce it refiurio?
HAH! I had a paragraph in my last post about that and deleted it because I figured you already knew. But, yes. Of course! My (very white) family has been there for like 150 years.
A page from my great-grandfather's memoirs. Perhaps of interest to Deadwood fans.
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And how didn't I meet y'all sooner?
I KNOW! I love making connections like this. Small world!
There are tornado warnings south and east of me.
It's freaky.
Right here: it's not even windy or raining.
Hey! I'm south and east of you.
t crawls under desk
Huh. brenda, tommyrot: we're under a tornado warning until 5:30.
This is the warning from the NWS--not quite us, but close:
- TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN COOK COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS NORTHERN DUPAGE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS EAST CENTRAL KANE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS
- AT 424 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG ROTATION IN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF GENEVA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
- THE TORNADO IS WILL BE NEAR... BATAVIA AND GENEVA...NOW! DUPAGE AIRPORT...WAYNE AND WEST CHICAGO BY 430 PM BARTLETT AND CAROL STREAM BY 440 PM HANOVER PARK...ROSELLE AND STREAMWOOD BY 445 PM SCHAUMBURG AND MEDINAH BY 450 PM
STATE POLICE REPORTED STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM ON I-88 JUST NORTH OF AURORA AT 420 PM CDT.
IN HIGH RISE BUILDINGS...MOVE TO INTERIOR CLOSETS...HALLWAYS... BATHROOMS OR STAIRWAYS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FRIDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS.
I'm waiting out the tornado warning by eating cold pizza and watching What Not To Wear.
