Sounds like it’s going to be a great day to fly a kite.

To the moon.

The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Jackson County from 10 a.m. Wednesday through 1 p.m. Thursday.

Waiting for the alarm to go off this morning, I could already hear the winds arriving, racing past the house.

When I was kid growing up on Indianapolis’ southside, with the houses placed closely together, I always thought the wind blowing betwen our house and the Jones’ next door sounded like trumpeting circus elephants.

I always liked that sound.

Anyway, stay safe out in the wind, and keep an eye out for the those elephants, or at least tree limbs and power lines.

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Are your little squirts at home more worried about the weather since last month’s flooding?

Mine seems to be. Our younger daughter is much more interested, and concerned, about the weather and weather warnings these days.

Maybe Sarah’s just becoming more aware, but it sure seems as though it started right after we and others in the neighborhood — and across the state — were told to leave our home because of advancing floodwaters on the weekend of June 7-8.

We were blessed. No floodwaters affected our house, but they were lapping at the edges of nearby lawns west of us.

The odd thing is, that Sunday night, she was pretty excited about getting to sleep in The Tribune office. She didn’t seem that bothered by what was happening.

But she seems bothered now, even calling me at the office some mornings to check the weather report with me.

Ironically, our older daughter, Hannah, seems to be comforting Sarah these days. I say ironically because she’s the one who’s generally needed comforting during storms and who’s always been quick to flip the TV to look for storm watches and warnings.

They both have always looked at me skeptically when I tell stories about how we’d pile on to the front porch to watch thunderstorms when we were kids. I still like to watch lightning streak across the sky, especially out in the country where you can really see it race.

How about you and your children? Are they more sensitive to weather alerts since the June flooding?

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Do you remember what you were doing in the great Blizzard of ‘78?

How about the blizzard of ought-eight? No, not 1908. I’m talking about today’s blizzard.

OK, OK. It wasn’t really a blizzard, but it was pretty cool, despite lasting less than a few minutes and despite unleashing less than, oh, a quarter of an inch of snow.

I do remember what I was doing in the Blizzard of ‘78 — deliverying copies of The Spotlight, a free distribution weekly newspaper that covered the southside of Indianapolis. 

It was something else. Snow, like the brief squall this afternoon, was blowing horizontally. But it kep falling and the wind kept whipping.

I don’t recall how long we were out of school, but it seemed like forever.

 Sarah, our younger daughter, was disappointed this afternoon with the outcome of the snow. She apparently told her grandmother she just knew there’d be no school Tuesday with as much snow was falling, or at least appeared to be falling.

So how about it? What do you recall about the Blizzard of ‘78?

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