On a more serious note. I don't know if you had heard about the tornadoes that hit here in the Dallas area the day after Christmas. You get a sense of the scope of the damage when you personally know of several people who lost their homes. My husband's co-worker lost his home. One of our teachers lost his home. One of our chorus members lost her home. One of the members of a friend's church lost his home. And we really don't live on that side of the city. It cut a very wide and very long path through a highly populated residential area though. I have a friend who volunteers to help in disasters and she posted photos of some of the odd things she has seen. A picture of a top floor bedroom where the entire roof was gone but the beams were still intact with the ceiling fan still hanging -- lightbulbs completely unbroken. Another picture of the side of a house and a woman's high heel shoe that had penetrated the wall. And then there are all the posts with lost dogs that need their owners to find them. It's all very heart breaking.
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