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The “Little Condo on the Prairie” dodged some tornadoes this week, and shared a lot of laughs in our families’ proximity while we await Libby’s baby — due this Friday!

TORNADO ALLEY
Oklahoma is not known as “Tornado Alley” for nothing. We’ve had two afternoons of tornado warnings (the presence of a confirmed tornado) in the short time we’ve been here this spring. Sunday, the sirens — indicating a tornado in the area — went off no less than four times in our part of town. So of course, we all stayed glued to the local news channel, which is a veteran group and does a good job of keeping everyone updated and safe.
At one point, they put a map up on the screen, with the radar picture indicating different town locations relative to the tornado. One town I didn’t recognize:
“Bobby?”, I said quizzically. “I’ve never heard of ‘Bobby’, Oklahoma.”
Libby looked at me. She said later that she thought about letting it pass, but remembering how mercilessly I had teased her for pronouncing “PurCELL” Oklahoma as “PURSE-ll”; she said, “That’s their news reporter, Dad!” They had marked the location of their storm chaser on the screen too. Of course this all went straight to Facebook …
Then for the rest of the evening, every time the weather anchor called out, “Bobby …”, the whole room would burst into laughter yet again! Continue reading →