Struck by Lightning...
Submitted by Dick Wanner on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 9:11am.
There was barely a drizzle misting the windshield when we pulled out of the driveway last Sunday for the 10-minute trip to my brother-in-law's house in Ephrata. Halfway there, it was like somebody was hurling marbles at our car - big marbles - and then BOOM! Did a tree hit us? Part of a building? Had the wind picked up one of those Holsteins we'd seen and felt sorry for a hundred yards back and thrown her into our car? Whatever it was, it was invisible. Couldn't see a tree, a cornice or a carcass. We took shelter in the playground of a little red school house, and five minutes later, we were back to a drizzle. The next morning, the Honda wasn't working quite the way it should have been, and, after a $1,000 trip to the dealer (Covered by warranty! Yaay!) we discovered the computer was dead. Death by lightning? Who knows? Speaking of struck by lightning...
Pennsylvania ag programs took a hit this week in state budget hearings in Harrisburg. And Washington's Food Safety Modernization Act is creating its own little twisters in the ag community. Both subjects are covered in Saturday's edition of Lancaster Farming.
Speaking of twisted, check this out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1nTaSrfB4
