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<\/p>\nwhen i was a kid, sometimes when there were tornado warnings we\u2019d all go down in the basement, but a tornado never actually went through springfield, as far as i can remember.<\/p>\n
but last night…<\/p>\n
T. (trevor) and i were at my place and we drove to his place and things were all fine and good. but then randy called to say there was a tornado in new berlin heading for springfield and so we turned on the tv and sure enough, gus gordon was going on and on about a tornado that was headed our way and there was a constant scroll on the screen about when the tornado was expected to reach various cities and i think we were due at about 8:27. <\/p>\n
i didn\u2019t think that much about it really because like i said, tornadoes never actually touch down here.<\/p>\n
but then at about 8:30ish, they reported that a tornado had touched down near KNIGHT\u2019S ACTION PARK. this was kind of close. outside the rain was pouring so hard that you couldn\u2019t see more than a few feet.<\/p>\n
T. has no basement, so we sat in the hallway watching tv until the power went out, and many calls were made and received from family and friends and mom and dad didn\u2019t even get any rain, i don\u2019t think. amy and jim and their three dogs were down in jim\u2019s bathroom in their basement and i suggested that this might be a good time to clean the bathroom since it has never actually been cleaned to my knowledge, but amy didn\u2019t think i was serious about that. their four cats were all in their laundry room and since i don\u2019t think any of them actually get along with any of the others, i\u2019m sure they were fairly stressed.<\/p>\n
the winds blew, the house didn\u2019t shake, but things were eerily quiet for a few moments. but then the rain stopped and we went outside and decided to explore a little. on lindbergh boulevard we saw a house with no roof. it was hard to get a good view of things since it was dark outside, but we saw a row of pine trees whose tops were all gone, lying in yards. trees were down everywhere. we walked to wal-mart where it had been rumored that the roof was gone, and it sure looked like there was a lot of roof in the parking lot. it was also weird because it was so completely black everywhere. <\/p>\n
there were plenty of cars up and down veteran\u2019s parkway and the traffic was pretty bad because of there being no traffic lights.<\/p>\n
we drove to my new place to make sure it was still standing and i was relieved to see that it was. it would have been too tragic if i\u2019d done all this moving and arranging and unpacking and then the roof collapsed and everything was destroyed.<\/p>\n
but then again, that would have saved me from trying to figure out what to do with my four or five remaining boxes of stuff, not to mention the many piles of things all over the dining room floor that i have no idea what to do with. <\/p>\n
this morning it was sunny but windy and we walked around and T. took a bunch of photos. here are a few to begin with:<\/p>\n
this is a building on macarthur. places all along the street had windows blown out, and some were in worse shape than others. <\/p>\n
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here\u2019s one of the more dramatic photos. this is taken on veteran\u2019s parkway.<\/p>\n
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here are a bunch of cars whose windows were blown out in the wal-mart parking lot.<\/p>\n
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this used to be the walgreens sign.<\/p>\n
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and here\u2019s the house that lost its roof.<\/p>\n
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no more time to write right now, but more later. not to mention all the stuff that happened over the weekend before the tornado…<\/p>\n
ok then,<\/p>\n
busy grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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