I signed up for the Blog 365, where we’re challenged to blog every day (except leap day) of 2008. So far, I’d had perfect attendance. But I didn’t blog yesterday. We lost our Internet connection when a squall line of deadly tornado-producing thunderstorms swept across our state and moved on into Tennessee and Kentucky. I hope I’ll get an excused absence from the Blog 365 powers that be.
Thirteen from Arkansas are confirmed dead, with dozens in the hospital. Nearly 30 were killed in our neighboring state of Tennessee. My daughter, a student at Lipscomb University in Nashville, spent several hours (at two different times) in the bowels of the science building while killer storms surrounded the city. After over 50 students at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., were injured, some trapped in their dorms, Lipscomb evacuated every dorm room as the storm system approached Nashville.
Our county suffered two losses. The town just west of us, Atkins, had at least three fatalities, and Clinton to our north, had wide-spread damage and at least one loss of life. Please keep all those who suffered loss of friends, family, and/or property in your prayers.
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