Hello again. This former ink-stained wretch has been finished with “Meanderings” for some time but after th thorough stoning received in recen storms we are compelled to comment.

As this is written, locals are haulin trailer-loads of vegetation sheared from trees to the burn pile for eventua immolation. It’s a big pile. Hyper-competitive roofing and siding contractor have descended upon Callaway seekin contracts, while insurance adjusters hav parachuted in like Airborne Rangers to assess the damage that will likely tall into the millions. The east side of structures in town and around appear to hav come under intense gunfire, breakin out windows, pulverizing siding and roofs just replaced in the last hailstorm of 2017. We have observed cars that now look as dimpled as golf balls, imitatin the size of the hail (and far larger) th pummeled us into submission for a tim Lots of smashed windshields and brken car windows adding accents to nature’s destructive art. Few were spared from one kind of demolition or another.

Each new storm system that begins cranking up in the west makes us a little bit nervous. Such disasters remind us that caution and preparation are in order — even if it’s just getting the cars and potted plants under cover.

The Wendorff family was away finishing up celebrating our eldest granddaughter getti hitched in Lincoln so only began heari about the assault via social media a t phone calls. Random do-gooders w . already circulating around town w sheets of plywood to cover shatter windows. We had friends show to check up on our house. Granson, Trevor, came with his dad sweep up glass and rake t downed leaves a branches into piles the yard. They will be ma aware of our gratitude will those who checked on things and/or threw up pwood on the east side of t house pending our arrival. T cat lived, by the way. It's all just stuff that can be fix and replaced. No oneg died. More important g how people turned o d to help each other secu homes/businesses and bgin cleaning up the mes We are no strangers natural disasters. It’s ju part of living in Nebrask You finally get your stu arranged the way yo want it and the weath comes along and mixes all up again. Rural are east and Oconto receive their own dose of cockt ice gone feral and are u re dergoing recoveries of their own. We th similar selfless acts going on all aro ed us. By the time you read this much of up destruction will have been carted a d and, aside from the obvious damage to are slowly working our way back to mal. This, pending the descent of ho nd of contractors to fix our stuff along in the racket that brings.

We live here and are grateful to be as among folks so willing to go that e up mile. Volunteers even managed to y BRAN despite the recovery work so gent he and ongoing. If Callaway is he voted best host community, well, s it. There are more important thing ed worry about.