[nagdu] A Sunday to never be forgotten

[cheryl echevarria]

FYI Steve.  My friend Steve Caroll, gave me a kidney August 23, 2005.  Steve passed in 2010 from Lung Cancer.

God bless you.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steven Johnson<mailto:blinddog3 at charter.net> 
  To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 1:30 AM
  Subject: [nagdu] A Sunday to never be forgotten


  By now, I am sure that many of you have heard the reports of the severe
  weather that struck across the mid-section of the nation this afternoon
  including both my hometown and where I live now.  I was actually doing
  dishes, had the back screen door open with the screen up, and heard my
  weather radio go off announcing a tornado warning for across the Mississippi
  River in La Crescent Minnesota.  Less than 5 minutes later, I heard the wind
  pick up suddenly, my deck furniture start to move and the eeriest sound of a
  freight train I have ever heard.  I called for my guide, Misha as I headed
  for my basement stairwell and it hit so fast, and like something I have
  never experienced before.  What seemed like hours, only lasted about a
  minute in a half at the most, and then it was over.  It rained heavily for
  awhile, but then everyone poured out of their homes.  I called for Misha who
  would not come at first, leading me to believe that my house was no longer
  standing.  Finally, she came to me and was in great shape.  We were both
  shaken badly and the path of devastation here in our neighborhood is
  absolutely unbelievable.  Almost every tree was down on my street and our
  street sustained the heaviest damage here in the City.  My roof was
  partially sheered off, and we had significant damage elsewhere as well, but
  my home was actually spared.  Others were not so fortunate as their homes
  are total losses, and very little was spared in the path.  It was absolutely
  unbelievable, and I am just thankful that both Misha and I are safe here at
  home tonight.  I love severe weather, and this does not change that a bit,
  but my respect has just been bumped to the highest notch.  Now, I hope our
  peers in Minneapolis, Joplin, Sparta, and other cities that were in the path
  of this destruction are okay.  My thoughts and prayers are with them as with
  my neighbors who no longer have homes.

  Steve and Misha 
  20 years ago, an organ donor saved my life, Jan. 29, 1991-Jan. 29, 2011 



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