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[/caption]It is not that Natchitoches cannot, and has not been hit by storms, as it is has been throughout its history. But the savage weather has passed over most of the time, leaving that intruder to wander elsewhere to do the type of ugly deeds, that happened in the State of Alabama yesterday, where it killed more than 200 people.
This week in Natchitoches, the lightning, thunder and awesome silence that threatened any moment to bring the type of wrath that others experienced in other places of the South, moved on past the town of Natchitoches. Winnfield folks were hit, and those good neighbors are our friends. Yet Natchitoches has stood against the storms, with most of it unscathed.
An old-time resident, Chris Manning, told this reporter upon arrival from Hawaii to settle in this town, that we would find some measure of safety here in many ways. The weather brings residents that, although people take precautions, knowing dangerous conditions could strike almost anywhere. Nevertheless, the Native Americans who settled in the parish long before the white men came, knew something that has proved valuable to all. The geography of Natchitoches has helped keep safe the town for centuries, in relationship to the woes felt elsewhere, in surrounding areas of Louisiana.
It is a blessing for the residents of Natchitoches, to have had, so far in many seasons, to be recipients of a passover of weather terrors others have had to bear, and for that passover many folks are grateful.
