Tornado!!!

So, we were out of town at a wedding in Mississippi when the tornado happened. Some out-of-town friends were travelling through town and were crashing at our place for the night. While they were out in the village having dinner, the tornado came through and they had to take cover under a table at the restaurant. Freaky.

It seems that we dodged a bullet. According to a map of the tornado's path (and cross-checked with the visible trail of damage), the damned thing missed us by a block or two. Seriously, the damned thing sort of cut diagonally across the neighborhood and barely missed us. Houses at the end of out street had trees on them. Houses on the street behind us had houses on them. Luckily, we had a yard full of asphalt shingles (not ours), roofing paper, and branches. Close one!

It also nearly got my wife's office. They had glass out and sustained roof damage but still had a standing building. Again, the path shows that it was within the a block or so. Crazy stuff.


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Below are my photos from the neighborhood taken on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. (For brief captions on the photos and larger images, click on the slide show.)