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To: Smart_Money who wrote (56192)	5/12/2003 9:34:25 AM
From: Rande Is	Respond to of 57584

OT> Thanks much, Smart Money. Yes, being away from my family is hard enough without the threat of tornados. Last week, one of them went directly over our house. . . .they could hear the house creaking from the sudden drop in barometric pressure, and they had difficulty breathing. Turns out it uprooted a dozen large trees just across the street from our home. Our cat gets the credit for uncharacteristically waking my wife at 3am (by walking on her face) just in time to lead my family into the basement. Then early this Sunday morning, this same cat (which we may have to rename "Angel"), woke our daughter who woke the family 'just in time' once more. Our property extends through a "hollow", where an F3 tornado first touched down, before ripping across Franklin, Tennessee destroying 3 homes and damaging 43 more. The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency is still trying to get to some of the more rural homes where people may still be trapped. Our home was one of 10,000 without power for 12 hours. I heard a guy say on television yesterday that we cause all our own stress. I can say with absolute certainty that this is not true. I would much prefer and would have considerably less stress if my family were not having to huddle in the corner of basements. Rande Is