| Like many couples their age, Irene and Bruce spent | | | | been scary had they not been able to find a campsite |
| most of their time travelling around the country in their | | | | nearby. Although the cold was not so desirable, there |
| camper. Only in the winter months would they return to | | | | was something incredibly beautiful about waking up to |
| their home in a retirement community in southern | | | | find everything covered in a layer of snow. |
| Florida. As part of the aging process, their blood had | | | | With their satellite television connection, they had been |
| seemed to thin out somewhat because they could not | | | | able to avoid these dangerous meteorological |
| handle the cold weather like they could when they | | | | nightmares, but there were a couple of disadvantages |
| were younger. Maybe their blood had just become | | | | of having the satellite. It was bulky and annoying to |
| accustomed to warm weather because they stayed | | | | assemble, especially as they were getting older, and |
| in warm climates year round now. Usually around the | | | | they already had a subscription at their Florida home |
| end of March they would set-out on their journey’s | | | | which they couldn’t just suspend whenever they |
| and just take it a day at a time and let the road take | | | | wanted. Essentially they were paying a pointless bill for |
| them where it would. | | | | something they used less than half of the year. |
| For many years they had kept a satellite television | | | | Irene found the solution to their problem, which was a |
| attached to the RV so that they could keep track of | | | | unique device called the Sat-Go. It was a small |
| the news, stocks and most importantly the weather | | | | portable liquid-crystal display screen that had a satellite |
| that they would be experiencing. The weather was | | | | receiver attached to it. They connected this with the |
| the most important thing for them, and they had run | | | | service plan that they had at their home in Florida and |
| into a few dicey situations during their years on the | | | | thus they eliminated the second satellite bill. They could |
| road. There had been a couple of times that they | | | | even user the Sat-Go while they were driving, as long |
| were caught in Tornado Alley in the middle of a line of | | | | as they kept the receiver facing southward. That year |
| rash storms. Once they had even experienced the | | | | as they were heading north from Louisiana, Irene |
| awe of seeing a tornado from a distance as it | | | | picked up The Weather Channel on the device and |
| churned up the earth that it ripped through. | | | | learned about a string of severe and tornado |
| On all of their trips they would take the time to visit | | | | producing thunderstorms, just north of where they |
| some of their lifelong friends that they had known, all | | | | were. They turned around and headed back south |
| of which lived in various regions of the country, some | | | | because neither of them wanted to experience a |
| even as far north as Maine. The trips to Maine they | | | | tornado again. |
| usually saved for the middle of the summer, because | | | | Take your direct tv satellite television in your RV with |
| early summers could be quite cool, especially at night. | | | | you. When you buy a Sat-Go device from direct tv |
| They had even had the misfortune of running into | | | | you will no longer need to be stationary to watch all of |
| some very late spring snowstorms, which could have | | | | your favorite satellite television. |