OT - Hope all of you in Mid-Missouri are okay
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Well, they are when they hit towns and cities, but you arent in kansas anymore in used today because it isnt kansas back then either!
My great aunt got wiped out in those tornadoes, and the memory is still there in me.
Now, if that tornado had hit a modern day kansas town......with many more people...
The casino closest to my house is flooded so I’m pissed.
Strangely, after 25 years not living in tornado alley I kinda miss that weather.
I follow board policies, RSR. This was a simple observation, not a political statement.
Yeah, I feel that. Don’t miss hail damage and insurance claims, but the dynamism, dramatic skies, great lightning. Grew up with it and get nostalgic about it.
Thanks for the sentiments. I live in Jefferson City. My neighborhood was fine, but a little over a mile away my kids’ high school took some damage, and several businesses I frequent got destroyed. It was a scary night indeed, but the locals are banding together and helping each other out.
Midwest tough!!!!! Is what that’s called!!!!
I have a friend who related the following story.
His family scrimped and saved to build a new house......which they did. Two years later a tornado took it. Resilient as they were, they took the insurance money and rebuilt.....exactly the same home in exactly the same spot. One year later, you guessed it, their second home was taken by another twister. They were indeed Midwest tough because they built a third time. This one is still defiantly standing.
I stated watching that second home go had to be excruciating. He said .........not like the first. They lost all the sentimental things, including photos, the first go round. In fact, the only family photo they have was found in a field 400 miles away in South Dakota under a Skelgas sign, and returned it to them by a lady who saw their names on the back and did the research to return it.
