June 23rd, 2008
Tornado Part 1: Cawker City, Kansas
Kansans are nicer and more courteous than Californians.
Drivers use their turn signals and wave at each other.
It’s vaguely frightening. But guess what happened next…
and I *knew* it was going to happen. A freaking tornado!
Several Contenders for “World’s Largest Ball of Twine” (Roadside America)
“Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what
people are thinking about or if they’re thinking at all.”
Quotation from Senator Bob Dole, Kansas (Retired)
“We have a state spirit which is a unique mingling of Puritan
morality, Southern chivalry, and Western individualism.”
Quotation from Milton Eisenhower (Dwight Eisenhower’s brother)
June 23rd, 2008 at 5:13 am
It seems to happen in all small country townships. People wave to you. Their same thing happens down under in the country and I think it gives one a nice community feel. Doesn’t seem like anyone come in to town, but then what’s the total population?
So your experiencing life on farm, in a small rural community, it all sounds good except for the weather and the fact the menu won’t change for them city slickers. Apart from the great ball of twine any other notable features?
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 am
wow can’t wait for 5 o’clock, never saw a tornado!
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
That was my in Hong Kong: I would always go out when there was a typhoon warning and wondered where everybody was
June 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Beautiful pictures! I’m curious about this place! I have to visit Kansas!
June 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm
The BALL OF TWINE!!! We wanted to see that last time we traveled out west! It’s a wonder of the modern world!
And what’s Kansas without a Tornado? How else would you be able to see the wizard?
(no, actually, I’m petrified of them…) (Tornados, not wizards)
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Cawker? Really? I was raised in the countryside but southern Ontario (25 miles from downtown Toronto) is not Kansas. Big storms in summer and winter but no tornadoes. I’ve seen pictures of them and never, ever want to see or hear a real one bearing down on my little hole in the ground.. Oz can look after itself. My reaction to a country childhood was to promise myself I’d spend the rest of my life in cities where people belong except for picnics perhaps and the odd brief holiday. Glad you made it back safely
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 pm
A tornado?! Wow…that was probably the one thing that ruined my childhood. Although I’ve never experienced a tornado…those always scared the hell out of me.
In Canada we use signals and hand gestures too. They don’t in California?