I wrote this on the forums last night at around 2:50 in the morning:
It’s now 2:56 AM, but I’ve been up since 2. Why? Tornadoes. I hate this State. The Tornado siren started going off and woke us up… “Hi there, Weather Channel!”:
So, supposedly a tornado just ripped the roof off of a Wal-Mart (or Target, they’re getting mixed reports) as well as destroying 1 (up to 3… mixed reports) houses that are a few streets away from us. They’re not quite sure yet.
Yay. Why don’t these things happen during the day? I swear, it seems it’s been almost every night now for the past week. Ugh.
Okay… it’s 3:00 now… maybe we can go to bed. They said the Tornado Warning has expired… only Severe Thunderstorm Warnings now. Wonderful. :p
So, today Jess and I had a couple places to go and we decided to go check out the damage, if any. Well, it turns out there was a tornado, it was an EF-2, and it missed our apartment by about 1.5 miles. Yikes. Here’s some pics from the news sites:
And here are a couple pics Jess and I took while out (note the “Wal-Mart is closed, sign… seems the tornado actually hit the store. Also note the missing roof and walls of that carwash and the missing gas tank at the gas station):
The police had cordoned off the neighborhoods that were most destroyed and were only letting in those that lived there (good for them, I say!). Anyway, I’m starting to hate the Mid-West… stupid tornadoes.
Oh! One last bonus… all the wind and rain seemed to undo whatever they did to fix the roof and all last night we had to deal with “drip, drip, drip, drip” again. While not as bad as what happened to everyone else, still quite an annoyance.
