NASHVILLE EXPERIENCES
The Tornado
We had lived in the house a couple of years when a big storm came through. The kids had just got off the bus, so at least I was done worrying about them. I opened the bathroom window about 2" because I heard you were supposed to do that and then we went to the basement. When I came back up, I saw where the rain had made a straight path across the bathroom and hit the wall in the hallway at the same height as the window opening. The hallway had no plaster on it yet, so that worked in our favor. The water ran down the hall and most of it settled in Little John's room. It took a bunch of towels to sop it up. Fortunately we hadn't laid carpet yet so that too worked in our favor. A tornado hit the neighbor's barn and killed several of his cows.
The First Car Accident
There were two car accidents in our front yard. The first one was 3 boys who had been to the fair and watched the racing. Then they decided they would copy that on our road. Our road is straight for a long way. It is a county road known as Teddy Bear Lane. The driver got up to 80 mph and turned his head to talk to the boy in the back. Bad move. The car swerved to the left, hit our big culvert taking a chunk out of it and flipped onto its top. I heard the noise and looked out of the bedroom window. When I saw the car's top smashed down to the seats I just knew the occupants were dead. I called the police right away. Then we heard a knock on the door. I thought to myself that at least one of them was alive. John wouldn't let me open the door. I kept asking why but he just said "You don't know what they're going to do." I didn't believe they had staged that accident to get into our house and rob us so I opened the door. The young man came in and I think he called his mother. She was the Treasurer, I believe, at the courthouse. In other words, she had clout. In the meantime one of the other two boys was laying on the ground beside the car. He had a dislocated pelvis. I think the third boy was OK.
The state police came out and measured everything on the road and in our yard and drew out the path of the vehicle. They said they were going to do everything right so the driver's mother couldn't get him off because he had been in trouble before. For all their work and time, he still got off again.
The Second Accident
The second accident came from the other direction. John had put a pole on one side of the driveway so we could tell in the dark where the edge of the driveway was. The car slid on its side into our yard taking that pole with it and then landed facing the other direction and right side up in the middle of our yard. The young occupants were obviously drunk. One guy was so drunk he could only lay across the trunk. The driver tried to take off in the car with him still on the trunk but the car wouldn't run. So they took their beer cans and threw them across the road cussing while they did. I went outside and chewed them out and told them that's where my kids play. I don't remember what else I said but I was mad.
Part II to come.
We had lived in the house a couple of years when a big storm came through. The kids had just got off the bus, so at least I was done worrying about them. I opened the bathroom window about 2" because I heard you were supposed to do that and then we went to the basement. When I came back up, I saw where the rain had made a straight path across the bathroom and hit the wall in the hallway at the same height as the window opening. The hallway had no plaster on it yet, so that worked in our favor. The water ran down the hall and most of it settled in Little John's room. It took a bunch of towels to sop it up. Fortunately we hadn't laid carpet yet so that too worked in our favor. A tornado hit the neighbor's barn and killed several of his cows.
The First Car Accident
There were two car accidents in our front yard. The first one was 3 boys who had been to the fair and watched the racing. Then they decided they would copy that on our road. Our road is straight for a long way. It is a county road known as Teddy Bear Lane. The driver got up to 80 mph and turned his head to talk to the boy in the back. Bad move. The car swerved to the left, hit our big culvert taking a chunk out of it and flipped onto its top. I heard the noise and looked out of the bedroom window. When I saw the car's top smashed down to the seats I just knew the occupants were dead. I called the police right away. Then we heard a knock on the door. I thought to myself that at least one of them was alive. John wouldn't let me open the door. I kept asking why but he just said "You don't know what they're going to do." I didn't believe they had staged that accident to get into our house and rob us so I opened the door. The young man came in and I think he called his mother. She was the Treasurer, I believe, at the courthouse. In other words, she had clout. In the meantime one of the other two boys was laying on the ground beside the car. He had a dislocated pelvis. I think the third boy was OK.
The state police came out and measured everything on the road and in our yard and drew out the path of the vehicle. They said they were going to do everything right so the driver's mother couldn't get him off because he had been in trouble before. For all their work and time, he still got off again.
The Second Accident
The second accident came from the other direction. John had put a pole on one side of the driveway so we could tell in the dark where the edge of the driveway was. The car slid on its side into our yard taking that pole with it and then landed facing the other direction and right side up in the middle of our yard. The young occupants were obviously drunk. One guy was so drunk he could only lay across the trunk. The driver tried to take off in the car with him still on the trunk but the car wouldn't run. So they took their beer cans and threw them across the road cussing while they did. I went outside and chewed them out and told them that's where my kids play. I don't remember what else I said but I was mad.
Part II to come.
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