Love,
Joe
August 10
Dear Mom,
Oh, mom, I wish you could be here! It's
so beautiful! The trees
are so lush, and there are flowers everywhere!!
It's so much more than I expected - it's not
all wheat and
cattle. This is such a spectacular place! Outside our
bedroom
window
is a wonderful view of rolling green pastures! I can't imagine
a more
placid, serene place.
Work is going well, so well in fact that I
just bought a new car!
I got a Lincoln Town Car! We're moving up!
Mary's doing wonderfully, she opens up the
lawfirm on Monday. Maggie and Megan are totally in love with this place
- they finally
have a yard to play in!
Well, that's it for now. I'll write
you back soon.
Love,
Joe
August 15
Dear Mom,
We experienced our first storm
yesterday.
The kids got scared
from all the thunder and lightening, but luckily we just got some rain.
August 16
More storms today. We had rain and pea sized
hail. Last
night the
tornado sirens went off, but luckily we didn't have any. However,
the
power did go out.
August 17
The sun finally came out today! The weather is
beautiful, and
the
ground dried out in no time! I can't believe there were tornadoes
a
mile away just
yesterday!
Everyone's fine, but the car's a little dinged
up. We had golf-ball
sized hail last night.
August 18
I'm writing this with a candle flame in the
basement. Sirens going
off, twisters everywhere, grapefruit sized hail. The kids are
scared
and so is Mary. It's very drear, to say the least.
August 19
Our tree is gone now - a tornado took it out last
night. Coconut
sized hail severely damaged my car, it's going in for repairs in a
week.
The lawn looks like hell, but luckily the
house survived.
The sun is out and shining brightly.
What an odd state...
I'll write you again soon.
Love,
Joe
August 27
Dear Mom,
How are you? How's pop? Everyone
here is fine, except that it
has been raining straight for five days. Our lawn is flooded and the
street in front of our house is under tree feet of water. The
new
car's back in the shop, the other day I hydroplaned and hit a
gaurdrail.
The basement is starting to leak, but the
weatherman swears the
rain will let off tomorrow.
August 28
More rain. Basement's flooded. Sod went
away.
At least I got my car back at last.
August 29
My car floated away early this morning. I
think it's somewhere
upstream, I mean downtown.
August 30
The damn sun came out today! The water has
receded almost totally.
Except from our basement.
Car's back in the shop.
More later.
Love,
Joe
September 8
Dear Mom,
It's so beautiful here now! Fall in
Kansas...who knew it was so
pretty? The leaves are turning colors and falling all over.
It's
like walking in confetti everyday.
We raked for the first time yesterday, and
the yard looked good.
But at six this morning it was covered again. Oh well, que sera
sera!
Love
Joe
Sept. 10
Dear Mom,
The leaves are everywhere. In the
lawn.
On the roof. In the
carpet. Stuffed in the gutter. In my car. Everywhere.
Oh well, it could be worse. At least
it's not raining.
Sept. 11
It's raining. The goddamned leaves are now
STUCK to everything.
Sept. 12
It's sunny today and we had a high of 92 degrees at
noon. I hate
it
here.
Sept.13
It's snowing! It's september and it's
snowing! This is so
bizarre!
How do these people take it? Is this NORMAL???
Sept.14
Sunny and 88. I hate it here.
Love,
Joe
October 31
Dear Mom,
It's snowing on Halloween! We've already
had three inches in two
hours! It's amazing! The kids and I and Mary went out and
built
snowmen and then drank hot chocolate! In October yet!
As I look out on the lanscape, it's so quiet
and serene. The
snow is over everything, so perfect and white.
November 1
The snowplows buried our driveway today. Not
that it mattered.
My
car won't start anyway. After I smashed in a window (the locks
were
frozen) I found out that the engine was dead.
The snow was pretty. And then the road
grime and tire dust and
filth of humanity destroyed it. Fucking state.
November 3
The snow is gone. The sun came out and melted
it today.
It's 93.
And a tornado hit us yesterday. The car was
placed gently in
the new
tree.
November 4
I wore my shorts to work today. I'm writing
this from the hospital
where I was brought after hypothermia set in at 4:00 this afternoon.
I hate this place.
Love,
Joe
December 20
Dear Mom,
More goddamned mother fucking white shit on
everything. Can't
see the car anymore. The dog died of frostbite, and Megan hurt
her
tongue when it got frozen to an apple.
Pipes froze - well, no, let me rephrase that
- first the heating
tape froze, than the pipes froze.
I am in hell.
-Joe
Jan. 2
Mom,
We had a pool party for New Year's.
We threw it in our basement.
Which is now a pool.
-Joe
Jan. 17
Mom,
The snow has left. Now the ice is
here.
Car went into a tree
because of it. Powerlines are down now. The new tree fell
over.
Hate Kansas. Hate the weather. Hate Bryan Busby.
-Joe
Jan. 30
Mom,
Sunny and warm. Fuckin' highs in the
goddamn nineties. Fucking
goddamned piece of shit state of kansas.
-Joe
Feb. 15
Mom,
Finally the bizarre weather stopped.
It's been normal spring
weather for a few days. I like this.
Feb. 16
Six inches of fuckin rain in one hour. The first story of our
house
is flooded. We were evacuated by National Guard troops.
The car is
full of mud and debris.
Mar. 2
OH SWEET JESUS!!! WHAT DID I DO???!!!
The house is ruined,
the car
is ruined, the tree is in the driveway, Megan was killed when a
drinking straw went through her! Shit! I hate this
goddamned
fucking
weather!
We were staying at the National Guard station.
But then a tornado took it away.
Love,
Joe
Mom-
Gonna kill Bryan Busby.
Don't try to stop me.
I'm going to hit him with my car.
And make him stop.
He is the one doing this.
And I must end it.
I must end HIM...
-joey
mom-
car gone.
mary gone.
kids gone.
just me.
and kansas.
one will win.
one will die.
somewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbow
somewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbowsomewhereovertherainbow
-joey