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By Todd Stadler · Saturday, October 13, 2001 5:59pm
Ah, North Texas, battleground of the clouds!
What better way to be welcomed back to the mother- and father-land than with a cold front moving through, bringing with it heavy winds and rain, thunder and lightning, and a tornado seventy-five miles away?
And did I mention the power outage? From 9pm last night until we all went to bed, we had no power in our house. So we sat around by candlelight and chatted for a while. You can't get much more old school than that.
It was pretty cool, actually. Very "family". Very "heartland". And ultimately, not all that "stimulating" once my parents got tired and decided to go to bed.
Usually, at that point, I would watch TV, read the paper, or hop on the computer. All very tricky to do by candlelight. So I went to bed at 10pm. Very "Waltons".
Still, it's nice to be home.