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MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

The Bluegrass Festival is all set up at the fairgrounds, and as usual, the weather is not the best. Yesterday was rain; today it is cloudy and threatening storms and I think it supposed to get very HOT.

Yesterday on a trip to the cemetery where my dad is buried in Fountain County, we drive through two torrential downpours. More accurately, when the rain started to come down the first time we were right by a Goodwill store in Rochester and went in there and listened to the buckets of rain hit the roof. The lights flickered, but did not go out.

Farther down the road, between Warsaw and Goshen, we had to pull over at a car dealership while it rained very heavily again. Then . . . as we approached 120, we were greeted with a road closed sign, a man waving everyone toward a detour and the sight of some limbs down. We found out later 7 electrical poles had come down and brought the wires with them. It took over two hours to safely extricate all the people whose cars were caught in the mess of poles and wires.

IN FACT, the 7 poles coming down made the CNN news coverage.

posted by Jody @ 1:03 PM