Yesterday afternoon and last night tornadoes ripped across the south and caused a lot of death and devastation. I live in that affected area.

Funny, Kathy T over at Shak and Jill lives about a mile from me, and her house was untouched. Me, I had some very minor storm damage, but more on that in a minute.

First, I wanted to say my family and I are all okay. I live a couple of miles south of the Metro Nashville/Davidson County border, and it was quite windy here and there was a little bit of lightning here, but we were on the south edge of the storm and most of the bad stuff missed us.

That said, I’m suffering with spotty internet today. I called the cable company and once they got over blaming my router (I lied and told them I didn’t have a router. I did disconnect my router in case it was the problem, it’s not) they said it might be storm related and said they were working on it. Okay, whatever.

But the problem is, I’ve tried to write posts a few times today and keep getting booted out of typepad. So I’m writing the bulk of this post in Word and then utilizing handy dandy copy and paste. So you’ll all get the same post today. Sorry about filling your feed readers with that, but I wanted to hit every base.

In interesting news, my compost has just vanished. The compost bin is partly torn apart, but the compost, it’s like it was never there. Seriously weird, man.

Photo: Chris Wage