Doody

I have been praying for those people. It's a blessing to survive such a monster, but it's still devastating to lose everything else. I was 9 when I had my first introduction to the power of an F4/5. On one intersection down the street from me, 16 people lost their lives while stuck in traffic. To this day, I remember them when I cross that intersection. If it hadn't been my birthday, my father would have been stuck in that intersection too. Thankfully, he came home early that day because it was my birthday.

Our windows blew out and it shook up the house, but it remained standing. I doubt this house would survive another though.

In 1990, I watched another big one from an 18th floor corner office - all glass - headed straight for us. The building was evacuated, but my boss wanted me to stick around because he wanted to dictate some notes - on SAFETY, of all things! When I pointed out the huge tornado and another funnel forming right across the street from us, he said "Cool, I've never been in a tornado before - I'll talk fast."

Geneva hates thunder and lightening - even when it's off in the distance. You should see her try to climb onto my lap. I suspect I'll be spending the day trying to console her.

Poor Bruna - at least she doesn't weigh 140 lbs.

Oh Cooper hates it too...fortunately he's up at the goomer today so will have literally hands on attention. *grin

And we are taking visiting sil up to the new casino in New Buffalo so we can all loss some $$! Mr. Alffe always says we should just open up the window and throw it out...we are not lucky!

Stay safe everyone.

LOL! I can't even IMAGINE Geneva getting on your lap, my god! That adorable girl is HUGE!

The boss thought it was exciting? Good grief. Well, lucky for us that you survived ((Ms. Kathy)).

Well I don't know where to post this but it is very amazing video of the tornado that hit Parkersburg, Iowa.

Mostly it's video from a bank in Parkersburg. 4 cameras inside the bank caught all of the destruction happening by the tornado! AND the ATM camera caught the destruction, second by second, of a house across the street from the bank!

Blows me mind. And something the news hasn't been reporting, there are still about 20 people missing from Parkersburg since that day. One of them is one of our students.

http://www.weather.com/multimedia/vi...94from=special