Connie & Diane

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Hello out there! Well I thought of answer replys to both of you in this e-mail as just consolidation way. I was born in Detroit, Michigan. I grew up there and Livonia (suburb in Detroit area), Michigan. Diane, I don't know a whole lot about Lansing except for going around there on I-96 freeway. Sometimes we stopped at Cedar Street exit to go to Arbby's or Burger King or something of the sort on the way to the Detroit area or comming back from there. We've been living in the Grand Rapids after I got out of the U.S. Air Force in May, 1979. We live in the Wyoming area of this metro area since June, 1994. Years & years ago they had a rodeo going here, and perhaps that's why they named the city Wyoming. This city of Wyoming has a population about 100,000 I believe. The entire metro area has a population around 600,000. This is the second largest populated area in Michigan next to the Detroit metro

area. Like I said in one of those e-mails I sent out yesterday (I believe I did, memory isn't all there you know), this heat is all over the country this year in a bad way. The other day, two people were found dead because of having a heat stroke in this area. Yeah I can't handle the heat like I use too. Of course I was alot younger years ago when I was in the USAF. About all the cars I ever had no air conditioning in them or it didn't work. My "air conditioning" was having the windows open when driving or sitting in the car. I remember driving down there at Wichita Falls back in about 1978 and I thought the air temperature was about 105 degrees. On the radio they said it was 115 degrees! There's sad memories of Wichita Falls, and this is because of that large tornado that came through that area on April 10, 1979. It was at least an F-4 perhaps an F-5 level status that it was. An F-5 is the worst level or

damage wise that a tornado can get. We had this happen along with two dust storms there, and the remains of a hurricane that came directly north up to the area of Wichita Falls. It could snow there say at the beginning of a week in the month of Janurary and by the end of the week it would be in the 70's. I noticed two different times a large increased in temperatures. It was 15 degrees above zero and that same day the temperature rose up to 70. Another time it was 35 degrees above zero and that same day it went up to 85 degrees. It's like have the heat on in the morning, air conditioning on in late afternoon that last situation. This one thing here about being in the area of tornados. Get to a shelter that is below ground if all possible. From what I remember, alot of homes down in the southwest don't have basements. If your in a area where a tornado is comming, don't waste time and just go to a shelter. In that tornado that came to

Wichita Falls, TX that day long ago, this tornado was 2 perhaps 3 that combine into one large one. The tornado itself was a half mile wide with damage going out up to a mile & a half. It lasted for 10 miles. At the time it was the 5th worst in U.S. history. It flatten tombstones, level mobile homes to the concrete slab, torned off the western 2nd story level of Dillards Department Store (but expose the bedroom furniture dept. in plain sight to motorists), reduced 3 story apartment buildings to 1 & half story level. Forty four people died that day in that storm. Enough said about this I guess for now.

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