i know there are many who have suffered much recen

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i know there are many who have suffered much recently at mother natures

hand and continue to do so , ill not try to claim any such losses , in 
fact my family has been most fortunate , this note from my 
daughter-in-law regarding this past weekends tornado in their 
neighborhood area ........

Re: FW: Tornado

Thanks for thinking of us. It's 
amazing how lucky we are. Literally houses devastated to the North and South of 
us and damage east and west of us. I have never been so close to something like 
this. The lights flickered and then went out. So I checked my phone for warnings 
because that was the only was we could. Then I actually stuck my head out the 
front door and saw a man riding his bike like no tomorrow and looking behind 
him. I then heard the "train" sound and told James to come listen. We decided to 
gather up our furry family and go to the basement. As we went through the 
kitchen I took one last look through the window and saw nothing but grey 
horizontal rain and debris swirling around! I screamed for us to high tail it as 
stuff started hitting our house. We sat downstairs for about 3 minutes and 
everything went calm. We came out and realized we had no damage but saw the 
trees down all around us. I went to our neighbors behind our alley to check 
their street and saw trees on houses and cars! Later we decided to walk 2 BLOCKS 
down to Lowry and REALLY realized how lucky we are. Roofs removed, halves of 
houses gone. Trees split in half and pulled the bark right off of them, branches 
hurled through roofs like butter, and businesses wiped out. Today I finally 
tried venturing out, and realized how much I didn't even see. Roads are closed 
in all directions. And as the detour wound me around north of Dowling the damage 
continued! All the way to 94 billboards were ripped off, windows blown out and 
full trees hurled into the river. Today I count my blessings again.

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	i know there are many who have suffered much recently at mother natures hand and continue to do so , ill not try to claim any such losses , in fact my family has been most fortunate , this note from my daughter-in-law regarding this past weekends tornado in their neighborhood area ........ Re: FW: Tornado Thanks for thinking of us. It's amazing how lucky we are. Literally houses devastated to the North and South of us and damage east and west of us. I have never been so close to something like this. The lights flickered and then went out. So I checked my phone for warnings because that was the only was we could. Then I actually stuck my head out the front door and saw a man riding his bike like no tomorrow and looking behind him. I then heard the "train" sound and told James to come listen. We decided to gather up our furry family and go to the basement. As we went through the kitchen I took one last look through the window and saw nothing but grey horizontal rain and debris swirling around! I screamed for us to high tail it as stuff started hitting our house. We sat downstairs for about 3 minutes and everything went calm. We came out and realized we had no damage but saw the trees down all around us. I went to our neighbors behind our alley to check their street and saw trees on houses and cars! Later we decided to walk 2 BLOCKS down to Lowry and REALLY realized how lucky we are. Roofs removed, halves of houses gone. Trees split in half and pulled the bark right off of them, branches hurled through roofs like butter, and businesses wiped out. Today I finally tried venturing out, and realized how much I didn't even see. Roads are closed in all directions. And as the detour wound me around north of Dowling the damage continued! All the way to 94 billboards were ripped off, windows blown out and full trees hurled into the river. Today I count my blessings again.