ALWAYS TIE THE FRIDGE TO A TREE

My "wake-up" call this morning came from my daughter Keri.  She is one of the few people I will talk to in the morning.  (Most folks know not to call before noon.)
It seems that Keri, Steve and kids had a very interesting evening last night. At around 11PM Keri awoke from a sound sleep trying to figure out what the loud noises were. Steve woke seconds later to the same sounds. They both realized they were in the middle of a terrible wind storm. Their area of Maryland is famous for tornados and they thought they just might be in for one heck of a night. Steve checked the house and decided they should get the 2 children out of their beds and "hunker" down at the end of the hall way where they are protected by 3 inside walls and no glass. Finn stayed asleep on mommies shoulder, Kaelin fussed a while in Steve's lap and then woke up to start asking questions. Kaelin decided they were having a "fire" drill like they do at school. Not the fire drill where they go outside but the kind where they leave their classroom and sit in the hall. (We used to have Civil Defense drills at school, these little guys have tornado drills.)
The storm raged for about 20 minutes and after a quick check by Kaelin and Daddy all was found to be fine so everyone went back to bed.

This morning was more interesting. When everyone got up today they found their "old" refridgerator laying outside the front door. Steve and Keri had just bought a new fridge and had put the old one,(which was actually less than a year old), outside the garage door. Steve had plans to move it into one of his rehab houses. During the storm the fridge was blown over and rolled down the walk way in front of the house. How it didn't break through the doors of the garage is beyond everyone. Steve's office is what used to be the garage and instead of a garage door there are 3 beautiful glass panels, one of which is the door to the office. They were totally unharmed. No so for the fridge that got one of its doors mangled by all the rolling.

Keri says the winds were 80 miles an hour and took down their neighbors apple tree,( the one that all the deer come to eat from). It blew Kaelin and Finn's kiddie pool down the street, dropped a huge tree limb on their fence and took apart a neighbors wooden fence.

Steve told Keri that when he put the fridge out side on Thursday he thought about tieing it to the tree next to the driveway. Keri said she would have laughed at him if he had told her that and would have told him he was crazy.

Next time . . .  tie the fridge to the tree Steve. But then it might have pulled the whole tree down!