Tornado!

[John Garcia]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Julia Thompson <degges at chiba.3jane.net>
wrote:

> The shed is destroyed, the neighbors lost the top of their chimney.
> Everything in our back yard got tossed around, and the plastic
> snap-together playscape is in pieces, possibly some no longer in our yard.
> The roof has new leaks (and there was a piece of shingle by the front
> door, I'm sure some shingles are halfway to the next county, not that it's
> all that *far* to the next county) and one window is broken.
>
> We are all fine, unharmed, and likely to stay that way since I got all the
> broken glass up in the area that the kids are allowed to be in.  We spent
> the worst of it in the storm shelter, felt the air pressure drop (there's
> a vent to outside, to keep the pressure equalized on both sides of the
> door), heard the wind, and then the air pressure normalized and the wind
> subsided.  It was freaky-scary there for awhile (and both the boys did, in
> fact, freak), but we're fine.
>
> I just need to let more people who live near us know that hey, if the
> house is flattened, we're probably underneath, safe and sound but grumpy
> and getting grumpier with every passing minute....
>
>        Julia
>
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Glad to hear you are ok.

john