Store on Vacation - Round Rock, TEXAS
Folks, this evening my neighborhood was hit by a tornado. I am fine. The tornado missed my house by about 50 feet. There is, of course a mess in the neighborhood. I have put my store on vacation mode for the rest of the month as the neighbors have already started helping each other to clean up. A block away from me homes were destroyed. It was that close.
Any orders still needing processing, please be patient and give me a little time to get to them. I obviously have more important things to do for at least a few days.
Thank you,
Michael - the Online Stamp Shop
Any orders still needing processing, please be patient and give me a little time to get to them. I obviously have more important things to do for at least a few days.
Thank you,
Michael - the Online Stamp Shop
Comments
Tom
Thomas, this is the second one to visit me here. The first tore a hole in the roof.
Like Luree says - be careful with the work of cleaning up!
Stay well!
I know what you have to go through. Up here in lower Wisconsin we get a few very year or two but generally not to bad.
Nothing like a Texas twister.
(I grew up in tornado country -- have seen them come right down the street, missing us but wiping out a neighbor's house just a couple of doors down. Also, had an aunt's hit a few years ago where it tore up the rooms in the front of the house but no damage, not even a paper shifting, in any rooms further back. The sudden stop in the destruction is almost surreal.)
This was the 3rd tornado I have been in. Two other tornadoes in the past were near where I was, but I was luckily never in danger from them. This was the second tornado at my house. My house sustained minor damage (considerably less than the first one) that I can repair myself. So many other homes were destroyed. I still had my late wife's clothes. I never got around to disposing them. Today, I donated them to the relief efforts. I have gone through my house, and gathered up a couple of bins of merchandise needed by those who lost everything. I will donate that tomorrow. I will go through my house again as I know I have more items needed by my neighbors. This is doubly emotional for me, as much of this was my late wife's, but I know that if she were alive, that she would be doing the same thing.
The roads are open now. Driving through my neighborhood, I see neighbors walking about trying to get things back together. You can see it in their faces, especially their eyes, that they haven't made sense of it yet. Repairs are underway for most. For some, it's a matter of safely going into what was left of their home, if they can, and getting out their belongings before what was their home is demolished and trucked away to the landfill.