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Article: FIRST YOU PACK UP, THEN START PRAYING.(Kentucky Life: Religion)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- September 16, 2004
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Byline: Terry Mattingly
Anyone who has lived in a hurricane zone knows the rites that fill the hours before a storm.
You wrestle with metal shutters. You fill bathtubs and rows of plastic bottles with water and make extra ice. You check radios, flashlights and battery expiration dates.
Floridians in Frances evacuation zones faced the sobering act of preparing a box or two of irreplaceable papers, pictures and memories. I saved stacks of class outlines and left textbooks. I saved icons from Greece and left diplomas from Texas. I saved my guitar and an oil painting of the great lion Aslan from the Chronicles of Narnia. Some things are easier to ...
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