I got a steroid injection in my shoulder this afternoon to help lower the pain from a large calcium deposit that's embedded in my shoulder tendon. The injection is supposed to lower the pain enough that I can do some physical therapy and get it worked out, I'm told. We'll see. But right now that seems like such an irrelevant thing. We are completely pleased with our home and our families -- and our horses and dogs and cats all seem entirely satisfied with their life and our love. So why on earth should I worry about a little shoulder problem compared to the lives (and deaths) of ALL those people and animals up in Oklahoma today?
From the time I got home from the doctor around 4 until right now - time to go to bed - I've been completely glued to the TV watching the reports of that horrendous tornado damage up there in Oklahoma. It's just horrifying! ALL those children -- AGAIN! And at least a hundred horses. Horrible! When I began watching CNN and MSNBC reports this afternoon, a few horses were just STANDING there in the midst of all the destruction, not even trying to walk. Just standing there. And people were walking and running back and forth, no one paying a bit of attention to any of them. One of the newsmen did talk with one of the horse care men (he lived in one of the destroyed barns) and he said of the 80 horses they had, he could only see one still alive. He seemed numb. I can see why.
We do have occasional tornadoes down here, as well, but never anything like that one! I can't imagine what I would do if I were to hear a report that something like that was coming this way. There is no way we could get all of our animals out to somewhere safe, and I can't even imagine going away and leaving any of them behind. So what would I do? I have no idea.
In Oklahoma there are few below-ground safety rooms only because the ground is primarily rock, so the cost is high to make one. But here, we can't HAVE underground safety rooms -- not without taking a chance on drowning! The water level here at our place is often only a few feet or so below the ground so we're not allowed to have basements here this close to the Mississippi.
I'll tell you what, I hope upon hope that our city will never be hit by a category 5 hurricane -- or entirely destroyed by the kind of EF 4 tornado with winds over 200 mph that they've had in Oklahoma today. That Oklahoma tornado completely destroyed at least two elementary schools and a hospital. Imagine! I'm afraid to hear just how many of those little children are gone now. It make me so sad. I think I'll go hold Boo for a while.
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