Tornadoes Coming Through

Ah, Midwestern life.

Not that the weather is stupendously fascinating or anything, but hey, there's nothing else going on. The tornadoes were about eighty miles west of here two hours ago, and coming this way, so there have been pieces of wet debris falling from the sky onto our neighborhood all night. The biggest one i saw was a strip of cardboard or something about a foot and a half long, just floating down out of nowhere, with the sky on three sides still blue. We are accustomed to strange things around here - my native state being the land of the inflatable cheese hat - but this does have a certain novelty to it. According to local radio, there have been tree limbs and roof chunks dropping on the next town south. But the real prize found so far, they say, is someone's official mortgage contract, complete with a Madison address. Their house is probably spread across six counties, but at least they'll have the paper.

All in all, not nearly as exciting as our hurricanes in Mobile last month. But you take what you can get.