The Working Nana

My hometown of Fair Grove, Missouri was hit hard today by storms.  I call it “storms”, because the National Weather Service team has not yet determined if it was a tornado or a “duratio.”  This was the first time in my life I had heard of that particular term, but I guarantee you I’ll know it next time!

One of the local citizens of Fair Grove used to live in Florida, and has been through hurricanes. His estimate was that the city was hit by 100 mile per hour winds. This would certainly be consistent with the idea of the duratio, where the upper jet stream winds get pulled down to the lower atmosphere.

The high school was damaged beyond repair, I suspect.  We even lost a section of the brand new bleachers that we had just put in place.  Hilltop Pizza, O’Reilly Auto, and our flea market were badly damaged.  I have included one shot of the Spanish room at Fair Grove High School.

My hat is off to Mr. Link, our Superintendent.  I want to thank him in  a very public forum for the work he did to help keep our kids safe.  I also want to thank the teachers who quickly helped to get the kids out of high school end, and into the Middle School end.  There were some scary moments, but everyone came out alive and safe.  Parents got a message from the text alert system, letting them know the school went into lock down.  Volunteers came in to help make sure all the kids got home safe.  It was true home town spirit.

Slainte,

Ray Province

Ray Province isretired mininster, and  an IT Programmer in the healthcare industry, and the owner of the Celtic Ozarkian, a website that chronicles Life in the Ozarks.  He also owns Celtic Ozark Solutions, a company that specializes in web development, SEO, and social media integration. You can  reach him at <a href=”mailto:contactus@celticozarkian.com”>contactus@celticozarkian.com</a> and @celticozarkian on Twitter.