Yeah right!
Anyway, I just returned from spring break (I'm a full-time college student right now) and was expecting Spring to be here! Instead, we've had snow and freezing rain for the past few days. Over the course of my mini-vacation I drove a total of 4,010 miles. Some people will see that number and think I'm crazy - others will be envious.
I love to get out on the open road and to explore new places. After driving out to Clovis, New Mexico where most of my seven kids and twelve grandchildren live - and visiting with them for awhile, Miss Susie and I headed up to the four corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah. Then we explored the western range of Colorado all the way up to Boulder.
Miss Susie was quite ready to depart Clovis when she did. She had gone out a few weeks before spring break and ended up right smack dab in the middle of a tornado disaster. Yep, a very large tornado skipped and hopped right through Clovis and caused some major damage. Over 500 homes and businesses were damaged and at least 150 homes were destroyed. In fact, the tornado touched down right across the street from my daughter Vicki's house causing serious damage to a senior citizen recreation center and uprooting several large trees on the property. Vicki only lost a portion of her privacy fence.
I was very impressed with the community spirit in Clovis, the spirit that has never died over the 100 years that it has been around. Folks of all races and social status pitched in together and helped each other out. A very large dairy was nearly completely destroyed and wouldn't you know it, personnel from some of the other competing dairies showed up on scene to help clear debris.
Nothing like a little disaster to pull people together, don't you wish that kind of spirit and camaraderie were just a normal everyday thing?
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