CONSIDER YOURSELF A NERD

I was sure I posted about driving into Indy just ahead of the tornado in the late summer of 2002, but I sure can't find it now. Anyway, we had a pretty good storm here in Anderson last night--thunder and lightning and the works. Indy, on the other hand, had one hell of a storm hit, with a tornado or two briefly touching down on the east side right where the 2002 tornado struck. Coming back from Indy today we saw billboards shredded on I-70. We got off on Route 9 and were stopped not far along by ROAD CLOSED signs. We took a detour around and found ourselves in the middle of a path of devastation. It seemed to have targeted trees--big, mature trees were snapped off at ground level or a few feet above. (I'm having trouble picturing the force involved in making air do that.) Limbs were broken off. Only once we got near the end of it did we see siding scattered in fields and what was apparently once a dilapidated barn (fairly common out here) that was now a pile of kindling. Damn.

Maybe our neighbors on the north side of Indy were right about Anderson being a safe haven. So far we've been lucky.

Current Mood: awed
Current Music: Charles cleaning the kitty box