My father died in June. I received a call from his best friend with the news, followed by, your dad’s house was just set today, the final inspection is tomorrow, you will need to be there.
That didn’t suck enough.
My dad’s friend (best friend) owned a construction company and his son works for a rival modular home company from the one my dad contracted. They both loved my dad very much and came prepared to punch holes in the contruction. They pointed out that the shingles where put on wrong, the drywall was wavy, and that the roof flip brackets where nailed though using a gun, instead of using the manufacturer’s preset holes and recommended nails, and the baseboard heater’s where not centered and undersized for the space. I noticed that hurricane ties where not nailed on both sides and that the cabinets in the kitchen where crooked, and a dented front door.
The builder has since stated that the roof is to expensive to fix, the flips are fine, and addressed the other issues.
Since then, with some help from his friend, I have started work on completing the house. His friend is handling the estate for me, and has been helping. Lately his job has changed, and he can’t be there that often. The house is a two hour drive for me, and actually I have’nt been able to actually meet up with him to help with the work for a couple of months. It’s just been me trying to get this stuff done. Besides he does spend alot of time working with the lawyer and the estate bills and stuff. I am in no way complaining about what he has done, just pointing out that the burden of finishing has shifted more my way than I orginally expected.
Since working on the house I have discovered that the wiring is a mess, 1/3 of the baseboard heat trips the breaker, they used 12-2 instead of 12-3 on 220 circuits, all the three switches I tested today return crazy mid range voltages indicating to me that there is voltage leaking between MANY of the lines, the smoke alarms haven’t stop beeping and I sense that this connected with the problem with voltages I discovered today, their are numerous plumbing blunders I am discovering while running the pipes to the fixtures and have paid to fix these from my own pocket, the garage is not set to match the sill, so that doors don’t line up and require a redo of all the door ways, they used single hung windows, and I everything I read in the paperwork for the house references double hung windows, they put holes in the garage for windows but say they are not supposed to supply those, and the house was suspisiously, partly sided.
Me and the executor, although we are on the same page, I believe need more help. I can not fathom trusting this place with the wiring problems alone I discovered today. We had taken this to the state attorney general a month ago about the roof, and the builder told them that it was to expensive to fix, and they would warrant it. Problem with that is, with this kinda of product I don’t expect them to be in business long. We where planning on taking them to a magistrate about the roof, but now I’m not sure what to do in light of the added problems.
My question really is, should I pay for an extremely thorough inspection of this building and try and get it condemned? Can i get it condemned and what would be the repricussions of such an action? I feal with the wiring issues I discovered today that this place is truely a fire trap. Luckily I have had enough sense not to leave any power on when I am not there since I started this project.

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monsters;19
2xairknight parshath
2xmefist the infernal general
3xdon zaloog
3xkycoo
3xdd scout plane
2xdd survivor
3xspell canceler
1xspirit reaper

spells;6
3xshrink
3xallures of darkness

traps;15
3xfake trap
3xdust tornado
3xrobbin goblin
3xmacro cosmos
3xmirror wall
(thinking about using anti-spell fragrance since i set shrink anyways)
i hope it is self explanatory but if not most of those monsters have purely beneficial effects when i inflict damage and it has few spells so i also use spell canceler so they cannot easily remove my traps and any monster here except the scout plane and spirit reaper when i use shrink can take out any synchro monster but also want solemns to fit in here incase they do get to use a monster like DAD but also if they run royal decree i am messed up so i also need a side deck with like prohibition and possibly the side deck to be all magic and monsters(or just to counter royal decree and to use spell canceler still i’d prefer because even though he is weak because they play like 14 traps in decks nowadays and a jinzo can be destroyed easily with smashing ground.) so if they do run royal decree then i can reverse what they are prepared for and solemns can also help with that, and dark bribes but this deck is inexpensive which is why i left out voltic kongs and stuff so try to keep it cheap but if it fails at being cheap then it’s okay to add solemns.

and if you post irrelevent info you will be reported!

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ok first off i had a dream that i was in my room and my dad and me where looking at my computer and he said " we might get a tornado " and i was like " no way haha" and then he pointed to this red light and he laughed and then left and then i heard something at my window it sounded like something was trying to break in so i ran out of my room and into my parents where and they where on they’re bed watching tv and i just sat down there because i did not want to be alone and then on the tv and girl with wings flew on top of this tree and that is when i woke up ….and i was a little scared and it took me about a hour to get back to sleep then that is when the really strange dream happened

i was sitting down at this bench and there was this girl sitting in front of me and i said " i love your dress" then the sky got dark and it got windy

and one person said " there’s a tornado coming!" then i saw this girl on a motorbike and i said " we got to get out of her " so i jumped on and she drove away from the place….then somehow we where in a Desert and i saw this big tall tornado like this and we where driving right for it

then somehow i was alone in the Desert and i did not see the girl anywhere so i began walking forward looking for a house or someone to help me

and about a minute later i saw this house so i ran to it and went inside it

and there where people there and i asked " i need help…" and one woman give me a glass of water and i drunk it

then she said something i forgot about it made me sad

and i started to cry and i said " i just..want to get home" i said to this boy or girl

and the woman must of heard me and she offered to drive me back home and i agreed and after we got into the car about a moment later we where in this small town

that looked awful like the real town i live in

and i said " turn here my house is around here" and she did and then i was back at my house

ok…so uh sorry for making this long but i wanted to give as much info as i could

what does this mean?

and don’t say " re-write it " or " i dunno"
ok?

am 14 and a girl
no….i have not watched that movie in about 2 years….i would like serious answers…..

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Several f4 and f5 tornadoes are heading my way and I’m scared to death! I need to get stuff quick and wake up my dad before they come. What do I need. Also we aren’t done with our storm shelter so do you think it’s safe enough? It is like a regular room except it’s out side of our house and it has concrete block walls. The door will surely come off and I’m afraid of getting sucked into the tornado. The only think it will really protect us from is maybe trees and stuff. I keep picturing my parents or me being sucked into the tornado or a tree flying into my dad’s head and killing him. PLEASE HELP ME!

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How good are livestock at predicting bad weather?

I mean, it was pouring rain earlier, and my horses didn’t give a crock. Now, it’s not raining, but we have a tornado watch for my county, and those surrounding…

When my horses were put away to eat (My dad did the chores today, but I usually take care of feeding and everything), they were really upset, and were running around. I could hear my neighbor’s cattle going crazy as I walked my dog. They can be loud on occasion, but it didn’t sound like their normal mooing. They sounded upset.
The horses kept it up for a while, so I went down there to look around, in case they could hear some wild dogs, or something. Nothing. They calmed down, and I stayed there for a little bit, petting them. I can’t see that they’re running around anymore.

Do you think that they sense something coming?

And if it switches to Warning, what should I do with them? Right now, they’re in their pasture that goes up against the barn, where there’s a run in attached to the barn, so they have that shelter. And, it’s kind of down in it’s own little valley…

Makes me want to move back to Arizona. Never had to deal with tornadoes. Or rain.
I’m in Kentucky, which isn’t in Tornado Valley, but a tornado did hit my town before years ago… And a couple of tornados have touched down in Kentucky since I’ve moved here a year ago. Nothing too major, though.

The cynical part of me says that they’re overdue.

My yard is large, 25 acres and fenced, so I could let them loose into my yard, do you think that would be big enough?

But the good news is, the whole storm looks like it’s moving off, though it looks like it’s going to skim southern Indiana.

Sorry, Meagan. Didn’t mean to give you my storm. :/
No, wait. The map says it’s moving east and a bit north. Even though the counties east of me have lost their warnings…?

I’m confused now.
Well, they canceled the tornado watch.

Still stupid flood advisories, though.

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I have nightmares about tornados.
Usually its where I can see them from a distance, and I’m trying to make sure other people are ok.
The most recent one I had was where I heard the wind blowing and the weather channel said the weather was perfectly fine, no severe weather. I was calling my friends and family who live in town. I was asking where they were, and kept telling each of them they might want to get in their basement or seek shelter. I tried to be cool about it, and not alarm them, but nobody believed me. The wind started picking up. I was trying to pull my 3 dogs into the basement with me. My first dog (puggle), Sam, got scared and ran away from me. I was trying to find him all over my house. My Dad was calling my phone over and over again, but I couldn’t pick it up because I was trying to find my dog. Suddenly the wind got so loud that it sounded like a train was coming. I couldn’t pick up my phone to help my dad, nor did I find my dog. I had to run down into my basement. As soon as I got down there my entire roof flew off. I was screaming and I could see a whirlwind of peices of my house flying above me.
Then I woke up. I was gasping for air and sweating.
I had one a month ago where I was driving in an unknown town. I was trying to find my way to a job interview. I was a little lost, and was traveling on some country roads. I noticed people started driving faster as if they were trying to get home. The sky started changing colors, like yellow and green and gray. I stopped at a gas station to get gas and a strange looking man invited me to his house. He told me not to worry, he had a wife and kids at home…but that he felt bad for me because he could tell I wasn’t from there and I had nowhere to go. I asked him why that mattered and he said it was because there was a really bad storm coming. I saw some tornadoes from a distance as he was talking to me. I thanked him and told him I was going to try to find my way back home to my family. I was lost, driving around and trying to dodge these tornados. I had to pull over and lay in a ditch, and these tornadoes kept flying over me. It was terrifying, but none of them hit me.

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im at home with my family, and my dad is outside driving and then comes these Dark Tornadoes.

about 2 tornadoes come near our house but never even destroys it.

then this gray suction tornado comes near our house and nearly sucks up the house, but it actually took off my neighbors house

so in my dream i was so scared and i was video taping all tht happened.

what does this dream represent?

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Last night I dreamed that I was at a grocery store with my mom. We leave the store and then begin to walk by a gym that has lots of windows. We both see the guy I was in-love with doing some sort of leg exercise. I’m frightened by seeing him again, but also a little thrilled.

My mom and I then get in the car with this one guy (my dad’s dream friend) and he precedes to drive in circles around the parking lot, which has mysteriously gone empty, in front of the gym. He continues this until the guy I was-love with leaves the gym. After which these cars start chasing us.

Dream switches, I’m ending a tennis practice (at courts I’ve never seen before) GIWILW (guy I was in-love with) is there too and is looking at me with a very soft expression. My mom is already there to pick me up and the three of us walk into the tennis shop. My asks him if he liked the practice and he says, yes, because I was there.

My mom then asks the head pro something that I can’t remember while GIWILW and I just walk around the shop, not looking at each other. My mom comes back and tells me it’s time to leave. GIWILW says he should probably go to. I feel sad all of a sudden. He opens the door for us, then asks me in a rush, would you like to hit some time with me?

I stare at him stunned because he’s ignored my asking him that very same question for awhile (in rl). Then after I recover, I reply a simple sure. He then gives me a small smile and heads up a hill away from us and to his car.

I stand there looking after him, wondering why after he has hurt me so many times that I immediatly give into him. I then realize it’s because I love him, always will, and that there is nothing I can do about it.

My mom and I turn to leave and see a massive storm brewing. Like huge, including two tornados. I want to go back inside the shop and hide, but mom wants to head for the car. So we run for the car.

Wind is blowing things around everywhere as we drive and everything looks orange. I keep wanting to pull over and seek shelter (I’m also really concerned about GIWILW), but my refuses, saying she could see just fine.

She then misses I turn and plows us off a hill and into a field of cows. I’m screaming at this point, but she still refuses to stop the car or turn around. Saying there has to be another road up ahead. We then go flying into a ocean (or lake, the world is to fuzzy). I’m freaking out because we’re going to die now.

Miraculously, we manage to stay above water and mom tries to turn the car around so we can get back to land. But a big wave pushes our car further out to sea, along with several cows (lol). Mom finally gets our car turned around when a water spout appears.

I then was woken up. What did my dream mean?

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There is a little bird in my front yard. She’s really fluffy and gray, and I know she’s just a baby because adult birds don’t have downy feathers like she does. I want to help her, because there is a tornado warning around our area, but I know enough about baby birds to know that if I get my human scent on her, the mother will never come back to feed her or teach her to fly. I already know she cannot fly because me and my dad just went out to get lunch, and when we left, she was on the sidewalk. Now she is in my yard, which is just a few feet from where she was before. It was raining while we were at the resteraunt, and if she were able to fly she would have flown away to find shelter. She also can’t fly away when I approach her to get a better look at her. I really love animals, and I can’t stand to leave her alone outside like that. What should I do??

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everyone in the house is asleep, and I’m the only one awake!!! the tornado sirens just came on, and I have terrified of Thunderstorms during the night when I’m trying to get to sleep sleep!!!! I’ve been up since 1 AM just shaking (it was something my dad did awhile back that got me afraid of T-storms @ night..now I am so scared of them…) I need something to come me down, and if I do hear a tornado coming (’cause my parents don’t do anything when they hear a siren…just if they hear it coming, then we take shelter.) then I will be too afraid to get everyone else awake. I mailnly just need something to calm myself down.
for us, a siren does not mean anything but telling us that the National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Warning/Watch.(b/c 90% of the time nothing comes around us) We only take cover if we can hear a freight train noise coming closer than a normal train would (which is kinda difficult when u live by a railroad track.

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so about 2 weeks ago i started taking celexa antidepressant/anxiety medication for anxiety. i started to realize i had anxiety wehen i was 12 and i got caught in a tornado in the woods. after that, i thaught it would be normal to be scared while in the woods on a cloudy day. (which apparently it is) but then it started to worsen. at 13, i started to have small anxiety attacks about once every 2 months or so. when i was about 2 months short of turning 14, i started to have severe anxitety attacks, loss of interest in many different things, on and off depression, and rare thoughts of suicide. but i wouldent be able to tell if i was suicidal or if i was just realy affraid of becoming suicidal. after i started celexa, i calmed down a bit because i knew that i could get treated, but i still have random losses of interest. like just today when i was biking at a ski mountain, a peice fell off my bike but i could still ride it and there would not be to much of a difference. but instead i called my dad to pick me up because i felt that i didnt realy want to do bike. i love biking on normal days, and i can rarely think of times when i would just stop because i didnt want to ride. i still want to bike, and i know my attitude will change in either a couple of hours, or a day. i also take riddlin sustained reliefe 60mg. ever sence i have taken that, i have noticed that i occasionaly have an offbeat heart. it only happens when i am not doing anything. but if it happens, i run up the stairs 2 times, and its gone. my doctor/phsyciatrist said that they think this could be the anxiety. but even after i started taking the celexa, it still happens and i think perhaps even more frequently. i think, that sence one of the common side effects of celexa in youth and young adults is an episode of increased anxiety, that this may be causing me to become more anxious and therefore sending my heart offbeat more than normal. i know that all this passes because for the past 2 days, i have been realy happy and that was how i was before the whole episode started because i have old videos of me and stuff. Another thing is, does celexa cause ocd? i was taking a math test a couple of days ago, and i realized that i spend about 7 minutes erasing and rewriting the letter "d" because i could not get it perfectly. i realized that this ocd type thing started after i started celexa. oh yeah, i have 2 sisters and a mom and a dad, both my mom and oldest sister suffer from anxiety and my mom takes celexa 80mg i think, but my sister takes a different kind. my dad has OPHD or somthing like that after 911 (he is a NYC firefighter) and he takes somthing different to. my mom said that i would probobly experience worse anxiety, possible OCD, and depression. i have DEFFINATLY noticed the depression. it does effect me from time to time. i occasionaly tell my friends that i have a doctors appointment so i can stay inside. and once i go inside, i realize i have nothing to do! the OCD part is noticable as well. but it does not effect me very badly. as for the possibility in increased anxiety, that has happend a miniscule amount i think. i feel very calm and normal from time to time. i eat normaly, i sleep normaly, and i act normaly. which is a good change because ever sence i was 12, i could not realy fall asleep because my mind would race constantly. ever sence then, i have watched movies or listend to music on my ipod untill i feel tired enough to fall asleep. this would keep my mind from racing, and thinkging about having anxiety attakcs which then would trigger them. and ever sence i started the ridilin, me, and everyone who knows me has noticed a sirius decrease in appetite while i take it. over the summer, i did some experiments like not taking my ADD medication for a week, and after 2 days of not taking it, i was able to eat perfectly normal. i do make myself eat when i take the ADD medication and therefore have not lost much weight. i just wanted to know if anyone else experiences the loss of interest, rare suicidal thaughts, OCD, offbeat heart, minor increase in anxiety, and small anger problems. by small i mean small enought to hold in and not show. no hyperventilating, no rude remarks, no nothing. i just feel mad.
all of these pass from time to time. but more than not, i feel strange, lost, unimpressed. all of those things. the past two days have been great though, i had fun, i was not depressed, anxious, suicidal, OCD’ing (if thats even a word) my friends say that they dont realy notice when im depressed because i still make alot of jokes which they find normal because i always am the jokester. is anyone else experiencing this? if so, when will it go away? thanks for anyone who can help. im realy bord right now and dont feel like doing anything or hanging out. thanks for your support whoever answers.

PS: im still 14 and have 11 more months untill my birthday. and sorry for making this question so long. just needed to pack all this into one big q

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An ambulance moments ago rushed my dad and mom to the emergency room,they said only one person could ride in the ambulance(my mom went with him and me and my brother stayed home and started cleaning up to get our minds off things) I rushed to my bible and started reading Psalms 91 and I prayed to God, and then a moment after that I called my mom and got updates about my dad she said the blood pressure machine I used to check his blood here at the house was wrong because I didn’t check it right,I also used my meter to check his blood sugar and it was 103(I did all of this before minutes before my mom called 911)

It all started my mom was sleeping,my brother was in his room and it was about 12 something at night earlier) I was watching WWE videos on you tube and then I heard a big crash,so I rushed up the basement stairs to see what caused that noise and I saw my dad had passed out and his body hit the glass table and it looked like a small tornado has came through the living room,everything that was on the table was scattered out on the floor. I rushed into my dad’s room and my mom was already up(the noise had woken her up) and I told her to call an ambulance cause my dad passed out(I felt the feeling of death in me)

She felt my dad’s forehead and he was sweating and his body was very hot,he looked very pale,we had to help him walk, and he said he felt light headed.I checked his blood pressure and it was 62 over 25 and his pales was 59.

It is 2:50 A.M here in Chicago and I don’t feel like going to sleep,I did cry a little bit.
So doctors and nurses and hospital staff are doing all kinds of tests on him and like my mom said everything is coming back fine,his blood pressure was a little bit high,sugar was normal.

Even though my profile name is Mr.Funeral that is just here on Yahoo and I don’t want to learn my dad has died cause I don’t wanna go to anymore funerals unless God calls him home,I asked God not to call him home. My dad is just 50
Update

My dad and mom just got home and he is fine and they said he had something called Syncope,I am so happy.

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theres this movie that used to be on fox family/abc family a lot, and it has something to do with a tornado. i only remember certain parts including a guy chasing the tornados and then there was another part where everyone was in a shelter and someone was holding a baby. there was an old lady who got injured by the tornados and someone picked her up in a car to get her to a hospital or shelter.i think someone had a car on top of them but that could be a whole other movie im thinking of. i also think there was a teenager and that baby that someone was holding was actually his half brother or sister. like i think his mom or dad remarried idk. any ideas?
Yes it is the night of the twisters, thank you! and omg i knew everyone was going to say "twister"

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Ok. Well first of all, i need some help. I need someone to tell me what these dreams might mean. Some recurring dreams i have are

going to school when the sky is DARK and/or evening, and not being able to go home.

being in a situation where theres a tornado and i cant seek shelter.

And i ALWAYS basically every month for a year i have a nightmare where i am in a car driving on an endless road, in the middle of a wide field and there is a huge funnel cloud over head. The last one i had of that dream was worse, where the funnel cloud was replaced with a face and hands reaching down.

I do have history where i was OBSESSED with weather (tornadoes specifically) i have never encountered one, and my obsession has stopped more than a year ago, but i keep having dreams with them involved and all i feel is absolute fear, even though my interest a while back was simply interest, and i wasnt "scared" at all. i still am obsessed being whenever its cloudy or stormy/windy i think theres going to be a tornado and i live in the mountains!!! but any way the main question is WHAT DO THESE NIGHTMARES MEAN? Both of the dreams i described are ALWAYS happening atleast 90% of my dreams include tornadoes.
EXAMPLE OF A DREAM I HAD THIS MORNING, literally lasted 9 minutes.
then it changed to a scene where the parking lot was my "drive way" and i lived in a mansion, the sky still dark brown and misty. i was in a car driving to town, mist everywhere, like fog. I called my dad in the dream, as my mom drove on this wide road, with no trees besides like 3 dead ones. in the dream i asked my dad what was wrong with the sky he said there might be a tornado. i simply replied, then me and mom will meet u at work and we can watch the tornado. in the dream the tornado then appeared. I knew it was just a dream. i asked my mom "is this a dream" she replied, no. i decided to ignore the tornado on the side of the roade any way. we continued to drive to my dads work, the mountains larger than usual (this took place in my town) we could see our house from my dads work which isnt true in reality. We saw a tornado passing by.
at one of the mansions there was a dog. my mom told me to go play with the dog with my dog (i dont have a dog in real life either, and in the dream the dog was fake, like a toy) and so i went over to the dog and started playing with it. in the dream i knew the story behind that dog, it was born from a human and dog and had an extra chromosome (someone in the dream, maybe it was my inner self who told me that. i woke up after that.. it was 7:09 am and all of that happened in the matter of 9 minutes.
and in the backround the whole time was depressing, slow, melodic music. it reminded me of

Rhubarb- Aphex Twin

http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/tracks#aphex%20twin%20rhubarb

4th one.

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okay s-so um i live in SC right?
a-a-and it’s raining alot and theres alot of severe weather going on tonight
like in ATL and stuff..

and it says it may come here! so um i really don’t wanna say what city i live in
but let’s just say it’s at the top of south carolina..
is there a chance of a tornado getting there!?
you see my house doesn’t have a basement… so theres no real safety here..
however my dad says we live at the bottom of a hill.. but the hill isn’t really that um..steep .

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I have tons of shampoo, conditioner, soap, lots of personal items, that I would like to donate somewhere in the US. I have donated to a woman’s crisis center before, locally, but I want to feel I am really helping someone in NEED. my dad when he’s a pilot and stays in hotels, he gets little bottles of soap, shampoo, lotion, etc, personal items, and I have collected a lot of them, and want to find a good place to give them.
Aside from Katrina, not that that isn’t an option, I’m just wondering what other disasters have occured in the US that need help like this?

I can think of the tornadoes, and there were fires in California a few years back.. but where would find out more?
Just want to help.
Thanks

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i live in southern california, in the victorville adelanto area.
its cloudy, kinda windy, im just scared because for the past 2 months i was on the truck with my dad, and we were being chased by tornadoes, so im scared by any storm now, even if its sunny but windy i get scared.

so does anyone know the weather forcast for this area?
i dont know the news channel

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My dad is planning on building a saferoom that is 11 x 16 and is going to pour like an 8in or 12in thick (I’m not sure) concrete roof for it, with 12in walls. I was just wondering what size rebar and what spacing would be recommended for it so I can make sure it won’t cave in and so it can sustain an impact. I would like to know the minimum gauge, a moderate gauge, and perhaps what would be a little overkill. Also I would like to know whether to put the rebar in the middle of the concrete or whether to put it just inside both sides. It’s going to be a tornado shelter. Don’t hesitate to tell me if there is something seriously wrong.

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Well, basically.. long story short, my moms single. I called her last night, and she seemed really stressed out in need of advice and I didn’t know what to tell her.

My brother is about six years old. I guess it started off as she had a disagreement with the teacher at his school- she was saying he was a problematic child, she even kicked him out of the classroom and into the hallway for laughing during a movie. So, the teacher said they had "social worker" concerns. My mom said they had a social worker come in and talk to my brother. They had him draw a picture of where he used to live.

He drew a tornado- because he saw a tornado in the state he lived in before. So they got all psychologist and freaking out. So my mom pulled him out of the school to move back home and put him in a school that wasn’t nuts.

So she took him to his dads that he hadn’t seen in a while, next thing you know she gets a call that his dad got pulled over with drug paraphenalia in the car- without a license. So my brother had to take a ride in a police car until someone came to pick him up.

My mom was freaking out and crying and worrying the whole time (she didn’t think his dad was stupid enough to do this and thought he was clean), and then when she picked my brother up ever since then shes had CPS calling her, and problems finding him a decent school.

My brother isn’t a problematic child, he’s just a six year old boy who’s a little hyper sometimes. They think he’s a problematic child because he didn’t feel like talking to them when they did they’re whole counseling session, and he didn’t really feel like answering their boring questions about "where did you live before" and "what’s your mom like" and blahblahblah, he just wanted to go play with the other kids in the class.

I’m not really sure what to tell her. Is CPS just going freaking nuts and trying to take everyones kids for no good reason??
I was informed recentally in Oregon state, if your child misses a day of school, if they find it necessary they can fine you 150 dollars. ridiculous.

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A friend of mine was acting very strangely, for a few months. I was very confused, ect. Well, I had this image in my head of him sitting i the waiting room at a hospital. It didn’t last long, but about 2 weeks later, I found out he was very sick, and he didn’t want to tell anyone about it.

Things like this have happened to me before. About 3 years ago, when I live in Tennessee, I had this sudden urge to draw something.

I had no pencils and no paint. I took a piece of paper, and used mustard and cigarettes ashes and a bic pen, and I created an image of a girl floating inside of a tornado, with a small house to the left of the tornado. In creepy hand writing I wrote, "There goes the nieghborhood…"

Well, a few hours later, I got in my car and decided, for whatever reason, to go to Ohio to see my mother. About halfway through the trip, I got a call saying that my dad’s house (the one I had just left in Tennessee), and his entire nieghborhood was smashed by tornados. People died, and the National Guard patroled the neighborhood for weeks.

How do I know when I’m being "clairvoyant", or is there really such a thing?

I’ve had several experiences like that in my life.

Capricorn, moon in leo, rising sign in pisces.

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a toad..i had funeral and it was so sad..for we wasted good chicken and daddy was mad..i cried for day day and wept for two year but mom got a goat and it ceased all my tears…i played with my goat for 4 years maybe 5…my new best friend the goat made me feel alive…but on tragic day a tornado swept by…it took my goat and its makin me cry…i adored my goaty and it was my life..so i went in my room with a sharp knife….i cut up my pictures of the goat and me…i guess the goat and i werent meant to be.so i went to petco and got a ferret.the thing was so cute that i couldnt bare it…it crawled and it squirmed then it ran away.i loved that ferret and it loved to play…sooooo i was climbing a tree and saw a chimp.twas a sickly thing that walked with a limp.i showed dad and he said it couldnt stay…all of ur pets have died or ran away.im sick of these pets and im sick of u so find a hobby,something to do.so i died unhappy and without a pet THE END..COULDNT THINK OF AN ENDING.LOL

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My dad used to let me stay up late with him to watch country music videos and I remember anticipating to see my favorite "kids and tornado" video. It was some singer and at the begining of his music video there were two kids, and a tornado or something. It had to be after 1984 (cuz that’s when i was born) and before 1990(cuz we moved)… does anyone know what artist and song this was? I want to surprise my dad by emailing him the video or buying it somewhere. I bet he thinks i was too young to have remembered. I would really appreciate any and all help on this question. Thank you.

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Okay so For about a year now I’ve been feeling things before they happen.
Like one day at school I felt "im going to get a twilight jacket!" i kept thinking it and then when i got home my brother whispered to my mom "when are you going to get her twilight jacket" then i got it!
and like last night…i was watching tornado videos and the ntoday, THERE WAS A TORNADO!!!! Its freaking me out kind of but i just want to know.theres other things thatve happened but i cant say them all. Thanks!

Okay another weird happening.
I was thinking of my cousin Devon out of NOWHERE.And at that second i said his name he called my mom.
I also said "when is Sherri and Cameron going to get here"
As soon as they said that they called my mom.
But that was on different days. But you know its weird….and creepy. Oh yeah and my mom had a dream about my cousin shwaun going tothe hospital for diet pills.(shes 36 or something). and the next morning my mom called Shwaun and asked her if shewas taking diet pills. She said yes. AND when they were talking on the phone she was wearing the same exact thing she was in the dream(my mom asked).
My Nana had a dream like that long time ago when my dad was 10. But it was about her with her head bandadged up for 3 days in a row and finally she went to the hospital because they said my dad(10) was hurt. And when she got there his head was bandaged up.
there has been other things that my moms sisters Kitty and Lori had. That happened.
When my friends tell me aout something I already know the answer. THE EXACT words coming out of theyre mouth. Because i thought it and she said the same EXACT thing i thought.
Oh shut up Amanda i didnt ask for your freaking opinion. all i asked for was a answer
ANSWERS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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1. Is Sam going to sleep early tonight: (1 point)
declarative
imperative
exclamatory
interrogative

2. Do your homework assignment:
declarative
imperative
exclamatory
interrogative

3. Today is Tuesday: (1 point)
declarative
imperative
exclamatory
interrogative

4. Hooray you won the game: (1 point)
declarative
imperative
exclamatory
interrogative

5. Sit down and eat your lunch: (1 point)
declarative
imperative
exclamatory
interrogative

For questions (6-10)
Decide if the following groups of words are complete sentences, fragments, run-on sentences, or two complete sentences.

6. James at home: (1 point)
complete sentence
fragment
run-on sentence
two complete sentences

7. Susie spends a lot of money shopping for shoes: (1 point)
complete sentence
fragment
run-on sentence
two complete sentences

8. A very scary and nerve-wracking event took place last night the entire neighborhood lost power for three hours: (1 point)
complete sentence
fragment
run-on sentence
two complete sentences

9. It was an exciting day for little Bobby it was his first day of school in the new town he had moved to last summer with his family after his dad changed jobs recently after the company he worked for went out of business the owner was forced to shut down: (1 point)
complete sentence
fragment
run-on sentence
two complete sentences

10. When Seymour, Mrs. Nelson’s new dog, saw all of the children playing, he wagged his tail with glee: (1 point)
complete sentence
fragment
run-on sentence
two complete sentences

In each sentence, decide if the underlined words are the simple subject, simple predicate, compound subject, or compound predicate.

11. Little Mary bathed early and went to bed soon afterward. (1 point)
simple subject
simple predicate
compound subject
compound predicate
bathed early and went to bed soon afterward, is underlined

12. Children are usually happy when summer vacation begins.(1point)
simple subject
simple predicate
compound subject
compound predicate
Children is underlined

13. Baseball, football, and basketball are Tommy’s favorite sports.
(1 point)
simple subject
simple predicate
compound subject
compound predicate
Baseball Football, and basket ball are underlined

14. Mom bought all of the groceries. (1 point)
simple subject
simple predicate
compound subject
compound predicate

15. Joey and Dani sang, danced, and performed. (1 point)
simple subject
simple predicate
compound subject
compound predicate
sang,danced and performed is underlined.

16. Which of the following would make the best topic sentence for a paragraph about hurricane supplies? (1 point)
Bottled water is a necessity
Hurricane Andrew destroyed many homes
Bleach can sanitize water if it is necessary
It is important to stock up on the necessary supplies before hurricane season.

17. Which of the following would make the best topic sentence for a paragraph explaining how to change a baby’s diaper? (1 point)
Take off the dirty diaper first
Changing a baby’s diaper can be challenging task at first, but it becomes easier with practice
Men hate to change diapers
The baby squirmed all over the changing table and then she grabbed the dirty diaper.

18. Decide which sentence would make the best concluding sentence for this paragraph:

During the summer vacation, the school grounds became littered with all sorts of trash. The student council members began a project to clean the grounds. Soon everyone was pitching in, including the teachers and other members of the community. (1 point)
New officers were elected for the student council.
People were careless over the summer vacation.
The grounds were cleaned up in record time because everyone worked together.
The school security officers were on vacation during the summer.

19. Decide which sentence would make the best concluding sentence for this paragraph:

Kathy had a special date so she wanted to buy a new top to match her jeans. She visited the local department store to look for one. After rejecting quite a few for different reasons, she narrowed her choice down to two. She tried the two tops on over and over again. Still, she couldn t decide. Finally, she called her friend to come to the store to ask her opinion. She also liked both tops. One seemed to be as cute as the other.

(1 point)
Kathy went to different store

Kathy bought both tops
Kathy did not go on her date
Kathy chose the one that her friend liked

20. Which detail sentence does not belong in the following paragraph?

Joelle and I spent the day at the beach. It was a beautiful, sunny day without a cloud in the sky. We swam, we played beach volleyball, and we barbequed. The weatherman predicted storms for tomorrow. We had forgotten sunscreen so we were sunburned when we got home, but the fun we had was worth it.

(1 point)
It was a beautiful, sunny day without a cloud in the sky.

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Okay so For about a year now I’ve been feeling things before they happen.
Like one day at school I felt "im going to get a twilight jacket!" i kept thinking it and then when i got home my brother whispered to my mom "when are you going to get her twilight jacket" then i got it!
and like last night…i was watching tornado videos and the ntoday, THERE WAS A TORNADO!!!! Its freaking me out kind of but i just want to know.theres other things thatve happened but i cant say them all. Thanks!
Okay another weird happening.
I was thinking of my cousin Devon out of NOWHERE.And at that second i said his name he called my mom.
I also said "when is Sherri and Cameron going to get here"
As soon as they said that they called my mom.
But that was on different days. But you know its weird….and creepy. Oh yeah and my mom had a dream about my cousin shwaun going tothe hospital for diet pills.(shes 36 or something). and the next morning my mom called Shwaun and asked her if shewas taking diet pills. She said yes. AND when they were talking on the phone she was wearing the same exact thing she was in the dream(my mom asked).
My Nana had a dream like that long time ago when my dad was 10. But it was about her with her head bandadged up for 3 days in a row and finally she went to the hospital because they said my dad(10) was hurt. And when she got there his head was bandaged up.
there has been other things that my moms sisters Kitty and Lori had. That happened.

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