dee_burris: (Default) Dee Burris Blakley ([personal profile]
dee_burris) wrote2010-12-11 07:41 pm  Sentimental Sunday: The
lines on the doorframe  In May 2008, central Arkansas was hit
hard by tornadoes.  I had a daily reminder of them as I took a
shortcut to work through a Little Rock neighborhood that was
devastated by those storms.  Trees that are easily older than I
were ripped out of the ground and tossed into the street, or
onto a neighbor's house. The hop-skip-jump pattern of the
tornado was easy to detect by the number of homes that have been
torn completely down, and new (replacement) homes built on old
foundations. Even three months later in August.  There was one
house in particular that I was watching. The owners elected to
tear down and start from scratch and they chose a new facade for
the new home. It was almost complete, and sat on a corner lot
right where I stopped each day, waiting for construction traffic
to pass. Back in the olden days when I was in grade school, one
of my friends lived in