Sunday afternoon the younger two early adulthood persons in the family and I trekked to Schenectady to the public library book sale. It was bag sale day so you could get all the books you could stuff into a paper grocery bag for two bucks.
The sale was insane. Full NFL gear would have been a useful option in the book stuffing scrimmage that occurred the instant the floodgates opened to admit the throng waiting in line. The outside of the library looked like the gate to a rock concert. We came home with five bags of treasure but we wrestled for every page and dust jacket.
One of the treasures I purchased was Big Weather by Mark Svenvold. It is about the author's adventures in 2004 chasing tornadoes with famous storm chaser, Matt Biddle. Although Mr. Svenvold is fond of using challenging vocabulary and convoluted sentences it is a fascinating read. In one chapter he described a video of a tornado in Attica, Kansas lifting a house entirely off its foundation and tossing it to the ground.
There is a certain fascination in big weather....so I entered the search terms, "Attica Kansas house tornado video."
The top link offered connected me to the video described in the book.
You can see it here if you want to.
This tree has nothing to do with books or tornadoes, although2006 summer's almost tornado passed right over it....and I suppose you could make a book out of it if you really wanted to.
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4 comments:
Congrats on your book sale. You are brave, Here it almost isn't safe to try to go to the sale. Our county library does have a store called TITLE WAVE that does sell books for about a dollar, it is a little more subdued there, since it is set up like a store, but not nearly as good a deal as the bag sale.
I love your fall colors, with mostly conifers here, we don't get a lot of color.
Nita, it was really hairy. People were rude in ways I couldn't even have thought up, let alone perpetrated. It was great to get the books though. I love to read.
Thanks for the kind words. Fall is really warming up its colors these days!
You just have to love a good book battle. Our library has one about twice a year. One must keep in shape for it. Love the tree picture.
Linda, the crowds are kind of uncomfortable for me, but the books are well worth it. I am reading one now about a guy whose father life-listed over 7000 birds. It is amazing!
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