Christian Real Estate Professionals : Pennsylvania: Douglassville

Monday Weekend Wrap Up...Mother Nature Strikes Amity...!!!

Most of my neighbors in Amity Township spent the weekend cleaning up the damage caused by an intense storm which swept through our area on Friday evening around the dinner hour...  

According to the weather 'experts' no tornado was seen to touch down by local radar...  

Except Amity is literally within a valley surrounded on all sides by substantial hills...in fact, I'm always kidding my children by saying we live in a former volcano or a large meteorite-caused crater... and lest I'm mistaken, radar, is only able to detect line of sight occurrences, and the damage to our area was focused mainly on low lying areas, particularly those in heavily clustered treed areas and densely wooded areas along creeks and gullies...  

Hence the term 'flying under the radar' typically applies to this one hour duration, mile and a half wide, catastrophic storm...  

Our home suffered a screen panel torn off our french doors and two major limbs brought down on two trees...even though our Star Spangled Banner continued to wave atop its twenty foot mast, unmolested by the ravages of Mother Nature, attesting further that we live in the home of the brave...  

Only by the Grace of God were lives spared and damage to residences kept to an unbelievable minimum...  

In any case, tornado or no, Amity residences are counting our blessings, and thanking God that the powerful winds and bigger than golf-ball sized hail didn't damage our most precious possessions...our family members...!!!  

In just a few days, no one but us will know that anything unusual and so devastating occurred in our resilient and lovely neighborhood...!!!  

Amity lives...!!!

 


 

11 comments • Fran 'The Title Man' Gaspari Title Insurance-PA & NJ • June 29 2009 10:10AM

Reminiscing A Softball Saturated Saturday...!!!

It was about a 40 minute drive from our home to the recreational area in Leesport, Pa., where Schuyllkill Valley Girls Softball Association would host a 10U (age 10 and under) girls softball tournament...!!!  

It was a double elimination tournament beginning at 9 AM, and so you lose two games, and you're out...!!!  

And so, the discussion in the car between my 8 year old daughter Emily and me on the way to this early morning sporting event revolved around self confidence, having fun, playing hard, and reminders that there are probably plenty of teams worse than ours, who, up until this point, hadn't won a game yet...  

Heck, regardless, it would be a great Daddy/Daughter bonding event, and we'd probably be back home by 1 or 2 PM...  

In true form, our team (The Thunder), lost the first game even though they showed brief flashes of brilliance...one more loss and we could head home and have some Saturday fun...  

Well, we got a little lucky, and pulled the second game out in the last inning...our first win of the season...  

Now the girls got a little taste of success, and you could tell by their facial expressions and general behavior that they liked this feeling...!!!  

Long story short, they proceed to win the next two games...each game showing greater skills, enthusiasm, self confidence and team spirit...!  

We end up finishing third in the tournament, and barely made it home in time to watch the Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird pull off an upset of immense historic proportions...  

And so did The Thunder...!!!

 

 

13 comments • Fran 'The Title Man' Gaspari Title Insurance-PA & NJ • May 03 2009 08:32PM