Tornado Alley – Gerardine Baugh http://mywalkingpath.com My Walking Path Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:02:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://i0.wp.com/mywalkingpath.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-DSC_0528.jpg?fit=32%2C32 Tornado Alley – Gerardine Baugh http://mywalkingpath.com 32 32 79402611 Winds Blast Across Illinois Farm Land~Or, Are These Political Winds? If Yes! They’re Kicking Up A Lot of Dung http://mywalkingpath.com/2010/04/30/winds-blast-across-illinois-farm-landor-are-these-political-winds-if-yes-theyre-kicking-up-a-lot-of-dung/ http://mywalkingpath.com/2010/04/30/winds-blast-across-illinois-farm-landor-are-these-political-winds-if-yes-theyre-kicking-up-a-lot-of-dung/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:02:22 +0000 http://gerardinebaugh.wordpress.com/?p=1847  

This afternoon we had a small dust storm. The farmer across the road from me had turned over his field during the past week. Today the winds picked up the dirt and manure from his fields and ran it straight north.

The wind tunnel was an interesting sight. So I decided to Video tape it for you. I was really glad the wind didn’t shift and come out of the west and head east. That would have brought all the dust down on me. 

 Check out the video. I add a short poem.

Winds blast
across the open field
Pushing in from the south
tearing to the north
Too close
Yet, just far enough away
I should head back 
to the house
If the winds shift
I will be covered
in dust and manure
A powdery layer
That will coat everything
This Place is
Dubbed…
Tornado Alley
Not that one ever hit the house
They all seem to jump over
to somewhere else
As political winds do
Unless they want to cost you money
Then they stay, and
rip your roof off
For now I watch
I lean against my car
It convulses
as the wind
beats against it
in an attempt to push it
and me
off this road…
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