Phats Fishing Trip

So on Sept 19th I posted "Closed for Repairs"  "Gone Fishing" and I thought i'd fill you in on what I did for my fishing trip because a LOT has happened since then.  That's the funny thing I actually had things to write about I just had not motivation to write them.  Lets start with the scary story, dodging tornadoes

So an early Sunday in November, the city of Kokomo was hit by a tornado for those that don't know I actually live in Greentown, and our county(both Kokomo and Greentown) is Howard.   It's not too uncommon for our county to get hit as everytime bad storms go through Indiana we usually are in the path but it is pretty uncommon for us to get tornadoes in November.  To their credit the meteorologist on tv warned all of Indiana we were in line for some REALLY bad storms, and if you watch football and are a Bears fan this was the Sunday their stadium was evacuated.  Anyway, back to the story.  So I got up that Sunday noticed we were under a tornado watch no big deal I figured it was coming after watching the news the night before and now I should tell you I take warnings pretty serious not watches.  The reason I take warnings serious our house was hit back in 1998 by a massive tornado so ever since then when these things come out I pay attention.  I had to do some work that Sunday on my comptuer, and the Purdue women were playing so I had their game on, with the TV on in the background and the first EAS msg broke in.  Now I don't know about all cable systems but what we have it breaks in for warnings and you can't change channels, or anything while the alert is going off.  The first one we got was for a county just north of us and it was a tornado warning so I checked radar and what not and chose to keep working since it wasn't our county.  About 10 mins later another EAS msg broke into the tv program and this time it was for Howard County, and they said Western Howard which technically isn't me, but I chose to go ahead and get my tornado supplies ready.  For those curious I got shoes, a warm jacket, flashlights, extra batteries, cell phone, cell phone charger, all my medications, driver's license, and glasses.  I then took that stuff to our storm shelter which happens to be a closet in our back bedroom.  By the time I had done all that our own tornado siren was going off, so I then turned the radio on, got my pillow crawled into my closet and waited out the storm.  During this time I was texting my good buddy Bekah to make sure she and Ryan were OK haha.  So after about 5 mins our siren stopped and I got out checked and it appeared all we had was wind and heavy rain.  about 5 mins later EAS came on we were under the warning again, siren going off again, I headed back to the storm closet and hunkered down.  I repeated that 2 more times that day when it was all said and done no tornadoes where I live, but Kokomo the a town 10 mins from me and where we all go got hit HARD.  One picture that I still can't believe a house was completely in the road, businesses were destroyed, the golf course had major damage.  A day later the National Weather serviced determined 2 tornadoes had in fact hit Kokomo.  They are this day STILL cleaning up the mess.  While we dodged a bullet in Greentown I can admit I was scared.  

What else did I do lets see Purdue football ended in a disappointing 1-11 record.  It was bad folks we looked awful, played a TON of true Freshmen and Sophomores so hopefully that is good for the future but we'll see.  The stadium was empty for a lot of games, the ones that were full were Nebraska and Ohio State and that was all their fans.  Most embarrassing we lost the bucket game we should NEVER lose to IU in football.  Our basketball is currently 8-3 playing a game tonight so could be 9-3.  One loss was bad, the other two were to successful programs and all 3 losses were tight.  We're gonna need 20 wins probably to return to the dance and it's going to be close but I think we'll do it!!

We have had a hard December here in Indiana been hit with snow storm after snow storm.  We actually got lucky in North Central Indiana the first one missed us and hit the southern part of the state, but currently we probably have 2 inches on the ground and some ice.  It's going to be a LONG winter I am afraid :(

I started adding blog friends on facebook I finally broke down I am now connected with my Blog BFF Shife, Duck, Phoenix, Rocket, DG, Travis and of course Bekah but I have known her since kindergarten.  It's nice I get to see more sides of you people, and they actually know what I look like now I am a little scared  

2 holidays have gone by since I last blogged, Halloween I did nothing, although I did dress up like an Oompa Loompa for work, and Thanksgiving which I am not a fan of,  I got in trouble for tweeting I am ready to go home, I forgot my brother in law follows me OOPS!!!  I love Christmas though and that is in a few days can't wait!!!  

I will try to blog one more time before xmas I have to set a Phats Personal Best.   Have a good one!