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Garden variety tornado© Carol Wallace I thought I was done with tornados when I moved east, after spending my life in Tornado Alley. But two years ago, early in the summer, while my husband was out of town, we had tornado alerts. I went outside and did dumb things like tying the rose canes to the arbor so they wouldn't blow off - as if a twist-tie would survive a tornado. The storm was absolutely spectacular! I turned off the lights and sat in the kitchen to watch - there was so much lightning that I didn't need lights - I probably could have read. And there was so much thunder that I wouldn't have heard anything unusual. When I went out the next day I first checked my gardens - amazingly they were unscathed. One tall delphinium blew over, but nothing else appeared to have been touched. A plastic watering can still stood upright on the potting bench.
It left the maples and birches and dogwoods and only took the trees I wanted to get rid of. And once those were gone, we had the start of the woodland garden project I'd been contemplating for almost a decade - all work done by Mother Nature for absolutely free.
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