GRAND RAPIDS, MI – My mother did not scare easily but severe weather, especially tornadoes, rattled her.
My dad was always one of those “we all have to go sometime” folk. They both just walk around heaven now, no debates about whether to hunker down in an inside room without windows or being on the lowest floor.
Growing up in the Carolinas, we got our share of tornado warnings. My family was fortunate not to experience the death and devastation from one that touched down…