What, no pictures of baby Clark in the yellow towel?

Aaawww....

Oh, poor Lily!

What a great friend he was to her.

How sweet.

Adorable. And so Clark, somehow.

Well, Lois, you were born to be more important to him than Lily.

Wow! Clark hasn't told his parents about his problems with the Child Services. Mr. Understatement, indeed. Lois really needs to help him deal with Margaret Donovan.

And he really, really needs Lois to help him with his current predicament as well! Please let Lois figure out that Clark - and Becca!! - are in trouble really soon, Barbara!

Ann

Oh, my! You got right to the point of telling us who Margaret Donovan was and then you stopped. Argghhh.... You’re killing me here, Barbara!


It struck me as odd that someone would put a bed in a storm shelter but not have heat there. But the thing of it is, is that’s probably pretty much the way it is. We humans do strange things....


Come back soon...

As someone who had the (mis)fortune of being raised in the Midwest - storm cellars are designed for short term protection - water, canned food, blankets, flashlights. No power since chances are there wouldn't be electricity after a tornado. Since there isn't a lot of ventilation, no gas fired generator or kerosene heater. (Think of a very small basement with no windows.)

The storms a storm shelter is designed for mostly happen in late summer and autumn.

It really does make sense, since in Kansas the storms for which you need a storm shelter are tornadoes. These are rare (though not unheard-of) in cold weather, but the great majority occur in the late spring and summer, usually late in a very hot day, so heat in the shelter wouldn't be worth the extra effort and expense in most cases. The storms also don't last very long in any one place, so even if it was cold, it would only be for a couple of hours at most. I've never heard of one when the weather was below freezing.

There were a few early this month in eastern Kansas that moved on into Missouri but they are more the exception than the rule.

Frank - about 6 miles from Kansas, and about 35 miles north of where the tornadoes crossed the border.

Oh, yeah. Nancy thinks what I write is odd and others correct her. That's kind of ironic, since I've been struggeling with "de-oddification" from the very beginning of this series.

Hehe, don't be mad at me, Nancy, I just find this kind of amusing. I love that you comented on my story and I even love your comments when you tell me that I write weird things

Oh, and I'm so glad that Ann seemed to have liked this part, although there is still the evil A-plot waiting in the background, baring his teeth.

oh man another cliffhanger. Get them back to Lois. Please no more angst.

I love this story and I hope the happy end is not far away.

OMG...poor Becca and Clark! Hurry back with Lois to the rescue!

Great chapter!

I do have a small issue with the skylight in the storm shelter though.

Wouldn't that be un-safe, considering it's basically a window on the ceiling, and if the storm went over it the glass could break, hurting the people inside the shelter?

Thank you so much for your feedback...

Darcy, that's just a problem with my english. I wondered whether skylight would imply some kind of window, but the German translation wasn't very specific. I wouldn't think of building a storm shelter with a glass door. After all, I've seen "Twister"

LaraMoon didn't complain and so I thought that maybe it was okay, though I have to admit that "sky" "Light" really lets me think of some kind of window.

But on the other hand, you eat hot dogs and that doesn't necessarily mean that you've heated up a puppy. Or does it?

Anyway, I'd be grateful to be corrected, I like to learn new things every day.

Here's a lurker delurking to say how wonderful the story has been so far. Just LOVE it!

For clarification:

According to the Wiktionary :

so I'm assuming it would be a window (unless you were referring to the sky radiation).

malu

Did you mean the doors that are usually on cellars?

They are usually low on the ground, and mostly horizontal, though they might have a slight incline.

There are usually two doors on one set, and they can be locked from the outside in some way--maybe a wood beam across, or a padlock on some sort metal hardware to keep the doors together.

Directly inside the cellar doors is usually a staircase to get down into the cellar itself.

So, all that said, were you trying to describe the "cellar door?"

Yep! I changed it. I thought a cellar door would rather mean something vertical. I guess, not living in tornado area can have it's downsides, huh?

I’m well aware of what a storm shelter is as I also live in an area where tornadoes hit (notice that I live in Kentucky). I didn’t mean to imply that what bakasi wrote was odd. I said that it was odd in general that there would be a bed there but no heat. For that matter, it also seems odd to me that there would be a bed in a storm shelter as storm shelters are usually small (the one depicted in Smallville is huge, if you ask me). But in the area I live in, it’s unusual that there would be storm shelters. We usually have basements - with heat.


And yes, some tornadoes do occur in colder weather. It seems that we often get at least one tornado warning in December or January around here.


But I didn’t find what you wrote odd. I find it odd in general that storm shelters in this modern day and age don’t have some way to provide heat.


Well, I usually think of a skylight as a window. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be a window. I just assumed it was some other way to let some light in... Like the opening that Malu mentioned. Depending on the way it was made, it wouldn’t allow wind to enter the shelter, but hey you changed it to the cellar doors so it's a moot point.


Now where's the next part!?