Update on How Things are Where I Live, or Why I Haven't Posted in a While

Hello World!

So, as most of you probably know/remember, or if you are new here/have forgotten I live in Oklahoma. That is the reason for me not updating in a while. Those of you who sent me messages asking about how I was and if all was well, thank you. I am pretty sure that I have replied to you all by now. If not, consider this post my reply.

I do not live in either the Oklahoma City or Tulsa metropolises which is where a great deal of the bad damage was. I live in north central Oklahoma. We did have a few tornados around where I live, but none that hit where I am at. The extent of the “damage” that my house and area got was that the streets flooded and we got some leaves blown out of our trees. The rivers around where I live were up which is a good thing since we have been in the middle of a drought and it makes growing our vegetables and fruit hard when the rivers are low.

While I was not directly affected by the tornados in the Oklahoma City and Tulsa area tornados, I had a couple of family members and some very dear friends of mine that were. I nearly got caught in the storms that produced the EF5 tornado that hit Moore area really hard on May 20^th. In fact, if I had left any later than when I had, I would probably not be here since I was traveling at the time. If you saw pictures of the Warren Theatre in Moore, I was actually in that part of the theatre only a couple days before watching a movie with about 20 of my friends. Of those same friends 1 does not have a house anymore, 3 have homes that they cannot live in at the moment because of the damage to their property, and about 10 of them have minor damage to their homes/flats. One of my friends and a cousin of mine are nurses and were put on call. My cousin was sent out to help with little kids affected by the storms. Another cousin of mine is in the Army National Guard and was helping out down there as well. For those of you who do not know, I volunteer with the American Red Cross when it was needed. For those of you who did know this and were wondering why I was not down there helping, here is the reason: there were so many people down in the area helping that the Red Cross and other organizations were asking people that were wanting to volunteer to not go down to the affected areas because there were already too many people. Also, the meteorologists were predicting more violent storms and they wanted to make sure that not all of their volunteers were in one area if another tornado hit in another area. One of tornados that hit the Tulsa metropolis were about a mile away from my big brother’s house and close to some of my other cousins’ and my aunts’ houses. However, the only damage that they got were some tree limbs down and some shingles got ripped off.

So, all is well, or a well as it will be until everything is back to being all shiny and new looking again. Hopefully I will be able to get back on my schedule. For those of you who are reading this on my fashion and beauty blog, I was doing a series of monthly posts on the birthstone of the month. Since June is a pearl I do not feel the need to repost the same thing over again. Instead, I will post a link back to it down at the bottom. For those of you who are reading this on my recipe blog, I will be back to posting recipes again soon! My friends that are from various countries in the world that do not know much about the weather where I live, tornados and bad storms are fairly commonplace in Oklahoma. However, ones that are this devastating and horrific are not. It is very rare that we get ones that are this awful that cause this much damage.

Those of us here appreciate all the help and prayers that the world has been sending us!
Lots of love and happiness!

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