Yes, my hometown got hit by a tornado tonight, and, yes, my family and I are fine.
About 5:45 PM my grandmother called our business office to alert us tornados were in the area. As our house is only a few hundred feet away I orderd mom and dad to head home and get the themselves and the dogs to the basement. I opted to stay at the office to shut down computers and I would join them in a few minutes.
I admit I took my time as we get tornado reports every year, but they usually end up being nothing, but as I stepped outside the rain had stopped and so had the wind. The air was completely still. For those of you who live near tornadoes, you know this means you really have one coming. As I had gone to the gym today, I had my car with me, so I hopped in it and probably broke a land speed record getting down to the house. Mom was in the doorway waiting to see if I was coming and I just yelled for her to go now, there probably wasn’t much time.
We did get all the dogs and ourselves down to the basement and then started listening on the radio for reports. There was a total of four funnel clouds in our county, two of those were within striking distance of Kirksville. The one that concerned me was the one coming east at 30 mph from Novinger, MO which, if you go in a straight line, would bring it awfully close to my house. It veered someone what to the North and ended up touching down a few miles north of us.
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