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[Steven Alm]

Brad,

So happy you're OK but I'm so sorry for all the damage and death.  We get
tornadoes up here too but I don't remember Minneapolis getting a direct
hit.  All around us though.  I do recall a few years back when a summer
storm came through after dark.  I was standing at the front door looking out
when I heard that "freight train" sound.  We gathered up the pets and ran to
the basement and hid under the stairs.  The house shook and we lost a few
shingles.  After it passed I turned on the TV and saw that hook echo passed
right over us.  I still have never seen one with my own eyes.  Not that I'm
complaining.

Slim

On Feb 6, 2008 11:51 AM, elle <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Brad,
> I cannot imagine being in anything so horrific. At
> least here whe hurricanes come we have plenty of
> notice.
> Not that we are out of the tornado loop here...Several
> years ago a strong tornado flattened LaPlata, MD,
> which is just across the river from here....Lee, were
> you in MD then??
>
> Thee have been others, but nothing like the midwest or
> Memphis encountered the other day.
>
> elle
>
>
> --- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Elle,
> >
> > Cora is home today and I'm playing Mr. Mom.  Her
> > school (five blocks from
> > our house) was hit and the power is out.  I watched
> > the first front come
> > through, mostly on the deck, and didn't see or hear
> > a thing.  Microbursts
> > are very localized in nature and most of the
> > windshear accidents I use as
> > examples in the classroom didn't look that bad on
> > radar.  Yesterday was a
> > strange and eerie weather day.
> >
> > In the late 70's I flew a scientist from the
> > University of Chicago following
> > the path of a tornado through Southern Illinois that
> > finally found a trailer
> > park near Mattoon, Il killing about 50.  In the
> > early 80's I flew a TV
> > camera crew that followed a 100 mile tornado path
> > that killed several people
> > in Arkansas.  The saddest thing witnessed on that
> > mission was a family of
> > four that crawled under their bed only to have a
> > huge oak completely dissect
> > their home, killing all.
> >
> > After 50+ years of living from one end to the other
> > in Tornado Alley, I've
> > gained a great deal of respect for (and fear of)
> > Mother Nature.
> >
> > Fan's parents called this morning to see if we were
> > OK.  The Chinese
> > government is pretty quick to air footage of natural
> > disasters in the US to
> > take the heat off of them.  They're still trying to
> > dig out from the worst
> > winter weather in 100 years.
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 6, 2008 10:58 AM, elle
> > <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So sad...
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather
> > >
> > > elle
> > >
> > > We can't change the angle of the wind....but we
> > can adjust our sails.
> > >
> > >  1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady
> > in Red)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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