>>After the 80+MPH winds, big hail, and a tornado that passed about 2 miles west of here.
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>>Nice evening in the basement.
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>Reminds me of the right bank of the Sava river, where my grandfather used to have a house. It's a clay slope which becomes a slow (but unstoppable) landslide once in every few years. The running joke is "house on sale - low mileage, like new".
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>You must have your share of jokes like that. Not that we didn't get a few of these nearby this year, but your area is more famous as tornado country.

We get them in close (within a mile or 2) every year.

I used to live in Florida - we'd see tornados there once in a while but they were small - not like some of the 1/2 mile wide town destroyers they get out here.

Most of the land here is a type of clay (this all used to be river or sea (yes - sea) bottom thousands of years ago). Basements tend to get squeezed as the land flows around them. We've spent a few thousand $$ just a couple of years ago to fix cracking walls.

Ah well, at least land is cheap.