go to cnn and watch the video (or read the story) of the "Truck barrels into backyard" - they called my brother in since he is one of only two people with his former fire dept who has a certain certification so he set up all of the decon area and helped coordinate the shelter and all.

go little volunteer fire departments!

its down!

MAIN CHUTE OPENED!

*giddy*

dang it, it was too cloudy out to see.

now at 32,000 feet

lost visual because of clouds

its back!

26,000 feet

noting deceleration (good!)

about 2 minutes until main chute opens

ooooooooh exciting!

AUGH! its CLOUDY! grrrrrrrr :(

14 minutes until it gets here!

20,000 miles an hour - how sweet is that?!

GO STARDUST!

16 minutes till it enters the atmosphere.

rain, rain, go away, come again another day.

Let the flooding begin.

Thankfully we don't live along the river but we've been told that they are expecting the river that runs through town to hit flood stage at 2 am. My brothers on shift tonight so he is in for a long, long night.

sick at christmas time = so much fun.

woohoo!

it's winter break and instead of enjoying it I'm trying to drown myself in cough medicine and head clearer upper stuff.

I hope that you all have a wonderful, beautiful Christmas and that you are able to enjoy the holiday with those that you love.

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