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Monday, July 14, 2008
1:11:00 PM EDT
Feeling Thankful

Frightening Lightening


What a beautiful day this is.  Not a cloud in the sky and a nice 85 degrees.  Darn near perfect, I'd say.  Not the case Saturday night when we had a ferocious electrical storm come through around the midnight hour.  I was awakened by the noise and one huge bolt of lightning followed by an earthquake of a thunder clap.  The next thing I heard was my smoke detector going off.  No, there was no fire, but I could not get it to go off.  I called our emergency maintenance number and someone came out and dismantled it.  It was then we discovered that every smoke alarm on my street was going off.  That's 16 apartments.  I was surprised that more help came and all new alarms were put up right then.  It was quite a night with everyone out in the street in their night clothes visiting while the noise was stopped...LOL.

 
After talking about the Super Walmart in my last entry, it started me thinking about our little town.  I moved here in 1980 and at that time there was a big wooden sign on the road that read "Coming Soon - Walmart".  That sign actually rotted before they built the store and then it was more of a Walmart starter kit.  It was the smallest Walmart I had ever seen.  They didn't think our little town could handle anything bigger I guess, but they didn't account for all the surrounding counties that came here to shop (because they didn't have a Walmart in those little towns either).  Now look at us.  A Super Walmart.  Of course it doesn't have an auto center or McDonalds or Vision Center or Bank.  That's for the bigger towns...(they just haven't learned yet...grin). 
 
The Chickasaw Indians had this town before the white man.  The one who discovered our town was the famed Meriwether Lewis (of Lewis and Clark fame) and in fact, he is buried here.  So even though we are a small, rural Tennessee town we do have some distinctions.  After all, do you have an Elephant Sanctuary in your town?   www.Elephants.com  We do.
 
 


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  • #14 Comment from krmprm 
    7/18/08 9:39 AM | Permalink
    I have just discovered your journal, thanks to Beth and Ken, and I am
    enjoying it very much.  We had a trailer on a lake in Tenn. for years and
    loved it but I remember some scary storms there also.  I would love to
    "snag and tag" some of your grapics, but I don't know how.  I'm a newbie
    to computer use.  Is there some Help place I can go to learn how?
    We were born in the same era.  50's were great.  A SIMPLE LIFE IS
    A GOOD LIFE!  Come visit me at Roses rambling anytime.   Pat
  • #13 Comment from hugsdoodlewacky 
    7/17/08 10:18 PM | Permalink
    (((((((((((((((((((((JOYCE))))))))))))))))))))I dont like storms like that.I hope you have a good weekend.
  • #12 Comment from jmoqueen 
    7/17/08 4:25 PM | Permalink
    That's it Joyce I'm coming to visit you so I can see the elephant sanctuary.  I love elephants :)  Eeeek @ the thunder storm glad I wasn't there that would've freaked me out

    Jenny

    http://journals.aol.co.uk/Jmoqueen/MyLife
  • #11 Comment from winivere2002 
    7/16/08 8:39 AM | Permalink
    I love storms. LOL... I am so jealous of that 85 egrees weather! LOL... Wish it was that cool here. Hot, hot, hot, & hotter roun' these parts... So happy for your little town having a WM. I hope they will get wise to bringing in the Super WM soon! It is a money saver. Wow @ all your journal friens! You must be making time to visit journals... I prefer to think that my readers are silent ones because I get very little comments. LOL
    xx
    http://journals.aol.com/winivere2002/TheGlassBox/
  • #10 Comment from springangel235 
    7/15/08 8:23 AM | Permalink
    Wow, that was a bad storm...hope you never get another one like that again.
    A lot of small towns are having SW's go up...and the towns are thriving from them.  We have one on the other side of our small town.   I've only been once or twice.   Hope you have a great Tuesday...and thanks for the link!
    Hugs and love,
    Joyce
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