Message From Lisa
April is a beautiful spring month. People who are born in April have a diamond as their birthstone and their birth flower is the Daisy.
April is the best month for watching meteor showers. One of which is the Lyrids meteor shower, which appears from April 16th to April 26th each year. There’s another one called the Eta Aquariids meteor shower that can be seen beginning on April 21st.
On April 15, 1912, the famous Titanic ship hit an iceberg and sunk on her first and only voyage.
Of course, one of the most well-known dates of April, is April Fools’ Day on the 1st of the month. No one is sure where this originated from, but some believe it to be inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer’s story in “Canterbury Tales” called “Nun’s Priest’s Tale.”
On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 was launched and ran into difficulties about two days later. It was then that the famous line “Houston, we’ve had a problem here” was said, and is today usually misquoted.
April is expected to set records for severe weather in our neck of the woods. March already kicked off the severe weather months with a record number of tornadoes. If you hear a severe weather alert, please pay attention to it and seek shelter immediately.