More "natural" disasters

I know many of you have heard about the California wildfires. They tend to be a problem, every few years.

Since I'm part of a national chain with Berean, we have a store in San Diego and Temecula, California, both near this area.

Staff at San Diego in particular have had to vacate their homes, and everyone is accounted for, except for 1 person who's is believed to be vacated to a shelter and doesn't have a cell phone.

Here's an excerpt from the San Diego Store manager:

....Camp Pendleton has now caught on fire and is a very large military base in San Diego. This has brought a lot of chaos to the area. The two major freeways are now blocked by fire in some areas and traffic backups are happening all over the rest....

So, if you read this, say a prayer for those affected by this events....

Nappanee, Indiana Tornado

A tornado touched down in Nappanee, Indiana on October 18th. This greatly interest me because we used to live quite close to Nappanee (17 miles). I'd show you a picture of the distance, but mapquest has not been very cooperative.

We knew a few people that lived in that area, and thankfully everyone is okay. The crazy thing is that I had a dream that night/next morning (well after the tornado touched down) that we lived in Indiana, and were experiencing a tornado. I don't remember much, but it looks like my dream was someone's reality.

Apparently it was a category 3 storm, which was 1/2 mile wide, and moved at 162 mph. WOW!

Here are some links to local coverage. Local Cleanup Efforts

Goshen News Write-Up

Some Video Footage:

Pistaccio

I'm a big fan of pistaccio flavored stuff. Kristy and I got ice cream last friday night, and I enjoyed a pistaccio flavored cone. She got some peanut butter/carmel/butterscotch flavor that better suited her. It was one of those 3, I don't think all 3 would be good. Simple things to enjoy!

Smiler

Cole's smiling. It's fun to see him react in that way.

Disappointment

So there I was, watching the Bills and the Cowboys on Monday Night Football. Going into the contest I was ahead of Andrew Weaver by 3 points in fantasy football, but he had Tony Romo starting and I had no one....which mean't I was going to lose.

However....Tony threw 4 interceptions in the first half, and suddenly I had a 1 point lead and was hoping for a few more interceptions.

As it would turn out, I fell asleep, as did the Bills, and we both lost...they in real life, me in fantasy.

Speaking of loses, the Phillies did, as did the Cubs, 2 teams I wanted to see meet in the NLCS (National League Championship Series).

Now the "Hot Stove League" begins, at least for the Phils. Except it's 85 degrees, and no-one's thinking of stoves.

NL East Champs!