Mark,

I am so sorry to hear that. Let us hope there were no serious injuries, or worse. I can empathize with you, since we here in Central Illinois we also live with the threat of tornados especially during the spring. Four years ago one passed aloft pretty much directly over our neighborhood, then touched down to the east of us and did considerable damage on and off for several miles. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. I am glad to know you are OK.

>About an hour ago, a large tornado passed through our beautiful downtown area causing extensive damage. Almost all high rise buildings have blown out windows, water and hail damage. Smaller structures have worse damage. The tornado continued to follow an easterly route along interstate 30 about 3 miles to the south of where I live.
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>Our local news was on at the time and actually has a camera on top of one of the buildings downtown and showed the tornado live. The scenes downtown are are very depressing. Unfortunately, the path this storm has taken is through highly populated areas. Many news agencies in this area speculated that this area was long overdue for a major storm and that this spring could be it. How right they are.
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>So far no fatalities but numerous minor injuries.