I was visiting John and Lois, and the order of things is confused.  Whether it came first or second, I'm not sure, but one episode found John and me and Ellen Wall lying in his back yard at night when a huge dirt clod in the form of a cloud whose shape rather resembled Austria floated by directly overhead.  It filled me with a sense of foreboding, and I suggested we run for the house.  Just as we did, it began to break up, and the dirt began to fall, spattering a couple of houses behind John's the hardest, but a little fell in his yard as well.  Not much hit us, though.  John and Ellen jumped into a small pit in the yard, and I followed close behind them.  When it was over, we went to the houses which had been hardest hit, and they were a horrible sight-the entire upper story of one completely destroyed, and the other badly damaged.  The owners were surveying the damage; one of them was a carpenter or architect.  The two houses were connected in the front by a wall, and the carpenter was explaining where they could put joists to provide mutual support for the two houses.  I didn't know for sure what a joist was, and I didn't understand his plan at all.    In the other part associated with John, I was in their house, and we were getting ready to go out.  I was in the bathroom, wondering what towel to use.  There were several sets hanging in a very fancy arrangement, but they were all alike.  I was going to ask Lois, but I was in my underwear and wasn't sure it was proper.  Anyway, I couldn't find my way around in the house very well.  The bathroom was large and L-shaped, and when I came to another one I actually thought it was the same one, except that I found by peeking through a door that it was adjacent to their bedroom, where they were getting ready.  When we finally all got ready, I asked Lois what she thought about the "dirt-fall," and she knew nothing about it.    We were going out to some favorite night spot of John's, but they were taking the kids along.  Lisa was still being carried -- in a blanket, though I thought it was a bit warm for that -- and her face was pudgy and wrinkled.  We set out walking with several other people.  Lois warned me that this place was frequented by "John's type of people," and that she bet I wouldn't like them.  We walked and walked and walked down a busy street and passed several night spots.  I went in a couple of places where a bunch of tough-looking hillbillies were playing slot machines.  I apparently thought they were the right places, but they weren't, and I fell behind the group.  We walked so far, though, that we all got strung out, and occasionally people from the front of the group would have to stop and wait for us or send someone back to direct us.  They all had on yellow slickers, like kids' raincoats, so they were easy to spot -- but we were hopelessly strung out, and the walk went on for so long, that I felt they couldn't possibly know where they were going -- that if they had known it to be that far, they certainly wouldn't have set out to walk it.    There was also an short episode in which I looked at a sleeping person or baby, possibly Lisa, and she opened her eyes slowly, until they were just narrow, angular slits, like a cat, and smiled, baring fangs.  I woke up in fear and drew closer to Bonita.