Oh the irony! I was looking for houses online on several Ohio newspaper websites, when I saw this. I moved to Ohio after a year of College, I was 19.  Dean of course being the theater buff he was, well got us involved in a community theater group, I of course initially went to be w/ the love of my life.  Our first show we worked on was The Music man, during that show there was a storm and tornado watches during rehearsals.   Similar to what this group experienced yesterday.  I always say I would never live in places like Florida where hurricanes threaten every year, I forgot when planning on going back to Ohio about tornados.
after we were married and living in our first apartment, one night I awoke to neighbors banging on our doors. I could hear a loud siren but never having experienced a tornado or siren before I was clueless. I tried to wake Dean but it was useless, he slept through it and I sat up worrying. We barely made it into work the next day, if I remember right we might have gone late or something.  Less than a mile away( I’d say a few blocks but in Ohio nothing was really close like saying “a few blocks” here) houses were ruined.  The roads we took to work were filled w/ debris from the tornado. It was the worst thing I had ever seen in my life, and all i could think was Dean slept through it and had it been any closer who knows what would have happened to us.
After reading about the storms there today I remember talking to Dean’s parents last night and them asking if it was raining here, and it wasnt. Our weather patterns tend to follow a day or two behind when they get storms.  Maybe it was Dean’s brother, I dont know one of them I talked to yesterday said it was storming, I think!  So just one of many reasons not to move to Ohio but still, theres lots of reasons to move there too. Still no news on the job front, kind of frustrating as we are very ready to prepare and sell the house. Oh well, we need time to make repairs anyway. getting an estimate on flooring/carpet for our basement and new gutters too tomorrow, hoping it’s not too ridiculously expensive. our plan was to finance those repairs and pay it off when the house sells. we are just getting estimates tomorrow.  if we more or not those things should be done as well as others we are planning to do, it’s just I hate going into debt to fix things up if we arent going to move.  I guess we just wait.  You know how much I hate waiting!!
