Hunt for the Twister

I am working on writing a book about a young girl named Agnes. Her Dad is a storm chaser and he takes her with him often on tornado hunts. One hot day in July, Agnes and her Dad go on the usual tornado hunts. This tornado hunt though would change Agnes' life. A violent tornado that they were chasing heads straight for their hometown, Dorrence. After a second tornado comes through in a different storm, Agnes and her parents drive down to Wichita to live with some relatives.

Thanksgiving

Yup. Grandma made her delicious rolls again. I made cranberry bread. They have a dog named Dakota. Me and him are BFF's . We had a great time. I'm tired. Who's ready for Black Friday? Not me. That probably means too much shopping tomorrow. Great. Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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Sick again?!

Really? This time it was the stomach flu. Except, no throwing up. All day Wed. I was resting on the couch. With the mop bucket beside me. Did you notice that it is no longer getting up into the hundreds anymore? Pretty nice out. Sometimes at night it gets down into the forties. Hopefully no more twisters. Anyway, it isn't as likely that we would get one, but still. Hurricane season should be wrapping up here pretty soon. Hallowen is coming in a few weeks!

Butterfly on the way

On Tuesday, we found a monarch Caterpillar. It ate a lot of milkweed. Believe it or not, Katelyn (That is what we are calling the Caterpillar.) started to make here silk button. Last night, she turned around and hooked on. This morning she molted into a pupa. I will try to get some pictures.

Supercell

Exactly one week ago, we spent the whole evening in the basement. Not fun. The part that was definitely not fun fun was Dad saying that there were three hooks on the rader.

A. The tornado could be over at Derby.

B. The tornado could be way east of us.

C. The tornado could be not far south of the South YMCA.

After Mom heard what Dad said, she said that we should stay in the basement. Dad agreed. But I was unusually excited.

" If we went upstairs we could probably see the twister from here!" I said. No one said anything.

Of course. I thought. I had a wild day. When we got home from choir earlier, I noticed the storm clouds. So after we got home and after listening to the weather radio, I grabbed a paper sack a put in it:

1. A bottle of water.

2. A box of Graham crackers.

3. A bright flashlight.

That was our tornado bag. I told Anna to grab the bag and take it with her downstairs when the tornado sirens went off. (I figured th at we would be spending Dinnertime downstairs. )

We were watching a movie when the sirens did go off. At first I thought was my imagination. When I heard it again, I was just about to get Mom and Dad when Mom walked in and acting very calm, she told us to go to the basement. Well, we survivied.

Hurricane Activity

OK. I know I was interested in twisters and I still am but I'm kind of getting interested in hurricanes. Hurricane Igor I'm tracking on Google Earth. Today, Tropical Storm Julia, jumped up to a category one hurricane. Hurricane Igor is a category four and weakening! The bad thing is that Hurricane Julia is getting stronger! Hurricane Igor will make landfall sometime this week on Bermuda. Hopefully, Igor will miss the island or weaken alot!

A New School Year

School for the Sauer kids will start on Sept. 6, 2010. Mom is going to let me keep up studying weather for science, but I'm going to do another science subject. I'm going to learn Electricity.

That should be intresting. I also think I'm going to be learning art and Elementry Diagramming

Work Text. For History, I'll be learning about Ancient Eygpt. Editor in Cheif is a Grammer workbook. Today, I had an appointment to get a Hepititas A shot. :( . Luck came on time. At least 30 min. ago, the doc called and said they ran out of shots and they won't have any for at least a week. YAY!! No shots expected for a week!!!

Hot, Muggy, Weather.

Today is very hot. I wanted to read a book outside but, I had to set up my tepee. And, I put down some old towels that were worn on the edges so that my legs wouldn't get itchy. Did you know that when I wake up without looking at the forcast for the day, I know if its going to be hot or not? I have a riddle for any one to guess what I'm talking about.

I am hot and cold at the same time

I come Light, Medium, or Extra Spicy.

I am from Mexico.

Who am I?

Good Luck!!!!

A Fenderbender

You will find it hard to believe, but when Mom was waiting to make a right hand turn onto Seneca, a durrango lightly bumped us on our back bumper.

I jerked forward a little bit  because I was in the back of the van. Mom got out to look at the damage. Luckily, it was only a few scratches. It took at least 30 minutes before the police came. I think there were a lot of wreaks that day. We were in the middle of a thunderstorm, but after the thunderstorm, things started heating up. Mom and I were sweating like crazy. Thanks to G2G that they gave me the idea of carrying a hankerkhief. Mom was suprised on how hot it was after the storm."It’s like Lousiana out here!” said Mom. My Mom is from Lousiana, so she knows how hot it is; ecpecially in the middle of the summer. Every one is okay and the damage on the van isn’t very noticeable.

Hurricane Warning

A Hurricane Warning is in affect for the southern parts of TX. Here is the following names of the cities that will get a Hurricane or Tropical Storm. Courpus Christi, Port Aransas, Rio Grande City,

Rockport and other surronding areas. Tropical Storm Alex will strengthen into a Hurricane. If you happen to know anyone in that area, they might end up coming up to your area. If you are planning to go on vacation down there this week or next week better stay at your house till this storm is gone.

May

I think that May was partly cloudy for most of the month. I am leaving for camp tomorrow in the afternoon. I'm leaving with the Totus Tuus group. I'm going to Camp Wajato. I'll be back on Wed.

We have had a long day. Yawn. Ready for bed and looking forward to a day of a little bit of school work and leaving for camp at 2:oopm.

Sick of being sick

True. I have a fever of about 101.2 degrees. Lucia,Clara Me,Anna, and Dad. Mom might get it. Oh well. I can't think that well but one thing. Last night, I was lying in bed when the power went out.

The lightning was so loud, Anna and I, went out into the living room and curled up on the recliner.

The power went out again for a few seconds. I ran to the top of the basement stairs and yelled for Dad. He said everything was alright, but I said that lightning might hit our house. Then he said that if lightning hit the house, we would all e toast weather upstairs or downstairs. This didn't calm me down a bit. But the storm was over, and I was asleep.

Wild day

What a wild day! It all started after dad got home. He went downstairs to talk with mom. When he came back up, he wanted to talk to me. "I don't want you talking about the weather. I'm here, and I will take care of everything." He said. He went out into the garage and found our NOAA weather radio and turned it on. " It works Dad!" I said excitedly. Dad should not have had it on, for it started to go off. Dad went over to it. "A tornado warning has been issued for Kingman and SW Sedgwick county." it said. After listening to the radio a little more I realized that if it kept on going in the same direction, it would hit my friends home. Luckily, it didn't.

April

I have been taking weather observations for science, and and I found out that we have had a very warm and sunny April. Wonder what May will bring? This morning I read about the Thompson Flood. Floods are hard to predict sometimes. The reason there were so many deaths was because people in the canyon didn't listen to the warnings. They thought that flood waters rose slowly. They were wrong. The water rose quicker than they thought. The flood waters slam cars against rocks. people that were in their cars had little chance of surviving. Those that survived, climbed up the side of the canyon to be rescued in the morning. Next time there is a flood warning, do what they say, and follow their instructions. You'll be glad you did in the end.

Yazoo Missisipi Tornado

Saturday, April 24 th in the morning, a Tornadic supercell hits tallilulah port. A tornado develops and starts to head towards Yazoo city, thirteen counties away. Suprising, the tornado lasted all the way over to there, destroying about half of the town. The tornado got up to about 3\4 of a mile wide. 10 people so far are dead. So far people think the strongest the tornado got is about an EF4.

Easter

What a busy Easter! We left the house just a little past 9:30am. Dad was dropping us off at the front of St. Anne's church so that he could find a parking spot, and so that we wouldn't have to walk a long way. All of a sudden I heard a big crash and brakes screeching. I turned around and saw two trucks had wrecked into each other. Both cars were making a turn. Luckily nobody was hurt. Just a little shaken.

Spring arrived!!!!

Spring arrived at last! Warm weather means more summer storms. Read the post for lightining safety and tornado safety please! Spring and summer may have some fun and weather dangers.

Have a happy Easter!!!

Weather forcast Today and tomorrow

Today

3/9/10

Cloudy

Temp 55.6 F

Humid. 100%

cool and breezy

30% of rain otherwise cool and breezy

Tomorrow

3/10/10

Chance of thunderstorms. Some thunderstorms may be strong.

Cloudy or rainy.

Global warming and acid rain

Global warming could affect earth. We could have more cloudy days. So you see Global warming can be bad or good. That can also mean more storms, I don't mean little storms, I mean severe storms. We could probably get tornado warnings more often too. Could happen to have more tornado watches too. We can get lots of heat advisories too.Winters would probably mean not as much snow or very wet almost melted snow. Acid rain is a very highly polluted rain. It comes from factories waste and exhauste from cars. This harmful rain can kill plants and animals. We here in KS don't have as high as a chance but we can still get acid rain.

Snow here and in the north-east part of the USA

Things are not going so in the North-Eastern part of the USA. They have reported up to about 2' of snow. The snow here is going to hit North-Eastern part of the state. We should get 4'' - 9'' of snow. Stay Warm.

What a day

We went to art class and it was
terrific. We drew a dog in a flower pot, but we didn't finish so at our next art class we will finish the dog. We also had a valentines party. Lots of sweets there. There were cupcakes and cookies.
Yummy Yum!

Foggy Mornings and Evenings

Fogs are basically low lying clouds. Some fogs are thick, Others aren't as thick. Some fogs are so thick that you can't even drive in them. If you here that a fog advisory has been issued, don't be fooled. Listen to the percautions and do it. Drive Safe.

Pictures

I'm going to a Flicker meeting this weekend with Dad. Hope that at least 2 pictures on my camera turn out pretty good. I had taken a picture with Dad acting like he was about to box the computer! LOL!!! Another picture of Anna and Clara and Adeliade. Lucia wouldn't even let me take even one picture. :-C