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The Question of God

I don't remember if we have the Olympics or the hurricanes to thank for this, but for one of those occasions we had the television...

 
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Old writings

Don't be surprised if you see posts appearing with long-past dates. I'm gradually collecting some of my old writings into this blog.

 
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Medical Investigation

One consequence of having had to keep a weather eye out for hurricane news is that our television set was on quite a bit recently....

 
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Welcome to my blog!

Thanks to a great deal of help from Jon Daley , I am venturing into the world of the Blog. It sounds rather like something from an old...

 
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Jeanne - 15 days later

Friday, October 1, 2004. 7:30 a.m. Again, I don’t know who gets the credit for this; it appears to be circulating unattributed....

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Tuesday 1:00 p.m.

Tuesday, September 28, 2004. 1:00 p.m.  The power is still on, and we are all happy about that. Porter is currently up on the...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Monday 9:15 p.m.

9:15 p.m. We didn’t get our swim in. We were just finishing in the front yard when Porter came home. Since we had discovered...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Monday 4:30 p.m.

Monday, September 27, 2004. 4:30 p.m. I apologize for the long delay between updates. Just after 1:00 yesterday afternoon, as the...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Sunday 11:30 a.m.

11:30 a.m. Still here, still fine, still have power, wind is anything but still. Impressive gusts, but sustained winds aren’t...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Sunday 9:45 a.m.

9:45 a.m.  We should be at church now, but storm—not to mention curfew—made the 40-minute trip an unwise venture. We...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Saturday 11:30 p.m.

11:30 p.m. Okay, now it feels as if I’m preparing for a hurricane: I’m baking a pound cake. I think the Daleys are...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Saturday 10:30 p.m.

10:30 p.m.  Just after writing that, I heard some wind gusts, but we still don’t expect much till tomorrow.

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Saturday 9:30 p.m.

9:30 p.m. Thank you again for your prayers—don’t stop just because my updates aren’t quite as frequent as before....

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Saturday 10:30 a.m.

10:30 a.m.  Porter and Jon just finished putting the plywood back up. It goes much faster when you have two strong...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Saturday 8:00 a.m.

Saturday, September 25, 2004. 8:00 a.m.  The Daleys arrived safely last night. Although at the time of Frances I assured them...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Friday

Friday, September 24, 2004. 2:45 p.m. Back from a morning marathon shopping trip. Not particularly hurricane-related, though it's...

 
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Jeanne - 2nd Thursday

Thursday, September 23, 2004. 6:30 p.m.  Janet, now back in school, said she misses getting regular updates from us via the...

 
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Jeanne - Wednesday

Wednesday, September 22, 2004. 9:15 a.m. Jeanne is dancing around and driving all the computer models crazy, and more storms are...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Sunday

Sunday, September 19, 2004. 11:45 p.m. Here is a picture from Heather & Jon’s website of what Ivan did to Pittsburgh.

 
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Ivan - 2nd Saturday

Saturday, September 18, 2004. 6:00 p.m. Ivan is hitting Philadelphia hard, too. NMKB lost a tree, found a couple of leaks thanks...

 
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Jeanne - Saturday

Saturday, September 18, 2004. 7:45 a.m. Jeanne's projected path is looking much nicer for us, and Hurricane Karl, though stronger,...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Friday 9:45 p.m.

9:45 p.m. The news stories I could find online were slow to provide information, but finally it got Google’s attention. Check...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Friday 7:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. We just heard from Heather. Jon made it home safely. He was cold and wet, but now he’s warm and dry. :)

 
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Jeanne - Friday

Friday, September 17, 2004. 6:15 p.m. Jeanne is doing her best to assure us that no storm is too small to pray about. At one...

 
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Ivan - 2nd Friday 6:15 p.m.

Friday, September 17, 2004. 6:15 p.m.  As devastating as Ivan has been, I had though I was done with personal commentary on this...