When the limb went down and took out the phone line, I assumed the houses closer to the totally crushed line area would also not have phone service and that I did not need to call. Guess what? I am the only one without a phone . . . and I used my cell phone to call them when I figured this out.

Have you ever tried to call AT&T? It is so automated it is ridiculous, but I think I learned if you just keep pushing “0” , you will connect to an operator . . . who will tell you AT&T long distance and AT&T local are two different offices and they have secret numbers. The last part I made up.

The storm clouds in the previous entry did not keep coming toward us; instead they seemed to pull away and the move to the east. So, that was that . . . I thought. Driving back, I startled my companion by exclaiming, “Whoa!!”

Here’s why:

This, I think, is the result of a microburst. Everything else was fine. My mother experienced a microburst a couple of years ago – the walnut tree that leans at two o’clock.