Wednesday, July 16, 2008

text messaging a storm

text message correspondence between 10:17 pm and 10:28.

jara: do u have power?
marcia: just lost it.

phone call. laughter.

jara: my response to this weather: really?
marcia: ha.

marcia: (urgent message) flash flood warning 4 douglas county!
jara: i'm pulling the rental back into the parking lot. no fourth meal for me.
marcia: ha.

1 comment:

Marcia M. Ghali said...

texting helped channel some of my newly developed (straight line winds) storm anxiety. Things that were said in the phone conversation:

I didn't want to go out to the sunroom because I thought I might step on that bug.

I think the lightening just struck Dundee!
Yeah, 50th & Underwood.