Hope everyone in Midwest are ok, Andy and Rick? Heard Ill got hit hard.
Seen it on the news last night, sure looked like it might have been close to them.
Hope they are OK.
Jane and I are ok… Tornado was 15 miles north…
Ric & Jan are good, they are in Florida… Tornado was about 15 miles south of Ric…
Actually, we were 3 miles south of it, when it hit… we were just finishing breakfast up at Lil Nashville Truck stop… Lights flickered a few times at the truck stop when we were paying…
Always good to know folks is OK when these things happen
Andy Clarke said:
Jane and I are ok… Tornado was 15 miles north…
Ric & Jan are good, they are in Florida… Tornado was about 15 miles south of Ric…
Actually, we were 3 miles south of it, when it hit… we were just finishing breakfast up at Lil Nashville Truck stop… Lights flickered a few times at the truck stop when we were paying…
Too close for comfort…
There is a beautiful church in a very small town, New Minden, as you travel between the Clarke’s and our house. That area was hit hard and the church’s steeple was destroyed, from what the pictures show. This is not the first time that congregation and community have had to rebuild.
Thank you all for any thoughts or concerns. As Andy said, we’ve been riding rails to trails in Florida. Should be home Wednesday evening.
All went south of me. We had some nasty looking storms, some rain and wind, a few streets flooded.
Kept hearing this low rumble during the sermon. “Hope that’s the railroad doing something.” My phone never alerted a tornado warning, just wind. a big power blink turned off the lights, but that was just because the DMX controler doesn’t know enough not to turn them all off when reset.
Later in the afternoon, it looked light nighttime outside. Sunny and cold yesterday and today. Cold? Na… by all rights, there could be 2ft of snow on the ground. This IS Illinois.
Had a couple of friends hit in Frankfort, IL, we moved a year ago from the next town over, 2 barns a couple sheds and part of his house, all down the street from him got it also, Coal City Il got hit to, have a lot of old customers there.
Friend emailed me that he was just floored at the outpouring of support, Jimmie Johns sent over sandwiches, Little Ceasars sent over pizzas for all the workers, local media showed up the next day.
NOT POLITICAL , Fox news guys were great, bought the family lunch and dinner, other local news guys were complete buttholes.
Tom h
Met a guy who said the windows blew out of his garage, but 2 blocks down, the rest of the town is missing.
I’m glad everyone on the list came out ok.