Tornado way too close to home.

I went out and looked at a little of the damage today. There is an open field between my house and where the tornado did the most damage. We had a little insulation and other minor debris in the back yard. if you look from the destroyed houses back to my house the field is littered with insulation, wood, siding..... so assuming the tornado took a nearly straight path, it passed withing 100-200 yards of our house.

I didnt go into the subdivision that was hit but took these pictures from the road on my bike this morning. They were taken between 1/4 and 1/3 of a mile from my front door. There is a lot of damage that cant be seen in the pictures further in the subdivision. It goes in at least another 1/2 a mile. Thank God no one was killed.

There is at least one house totally missing except for about an 8' square section of wall. It is right in the center of the pictures.

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Glad y'all make it through safely.
Something I learned back last year, any hand helping clean up someones personal belongings is greatly appreciated.
I was not able to help out alot, but did go over a few days. I took some rubbermaid buckets with lids and helped some people dig out pictures and family keepsakes.
My son ran my chainsaw for several weekends. Truned it over to a neighbor when he could not go back anymore. I guess it kept going on around.
The twisters we had last April missed us by 1/2 mile or so. I picked up 2 garbage can full of insulation, sheetrock and wood from my yard. We were lucky.
The ones that came through in Jan missed us by less than 2 miles. Came through about 4am.

I still see places around the state completely torn up from last April.

Wierd thing driving around the state and still seeing the paths it took accross highways and interstate. The trees that are still somewhat standing are all dead and the underbrush has not had time to grow up over the deadfall trees so it is still a big swipe with nothing there but limbs and sticks sticking up.

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Tornado way too close to home.

Tornado way too close to home.

Sheesh! Close call indeed. I'm glad you and Kathryn

Too close! Glad to hear you're OK.