Phillips may want to get used to St. Louis. The Airport was devastated tonight by a tornado. Sounds like it will be closed for a while. Hope he bought a bunch of lunchables.

I'm listening to the game on the radio and watching emergency vehicles go back and forth down our street. Apparently the tornado hit a nursing home about 1/4 mile from our home. Based on the back and forth, I assume there's an evacuation plan in progress.

Michele and the kids were going to go to church tonite but stayed home. The church had it's steeple blown off.

forsberg_us wrote:

Phillips may want to get used to St. Louis. The Airport was devastated tonight by a tornado. Sounds like it will be closed for a while. Hope he bought a bunch of lunchables.

I'm listening to the game on the radio and watching emergency vehicles go back and forth down our street. Apparently the tornado hit a nursing home about 1/4 mile from our home. Based on the back and forth, I assume there's an evacuation plan in progress.

Michele and the kids were going to go to church tonite but stayed home. The church had it's steeple blown off.

You guys got it bad.  I dont believe it was that bad here last night but I guess daylight will tell.  I thought the storm a few days ago was worst.

Good to know you're OK. I guess the airport is re-opening Sunday, so Phillips won't have to live on 7-Eleven cuisine longer than he expected.
As much as I complain about winter lasting until mid-May here, I've never heard a tornado siren. I can't imagine too many things more terrifying.

Last edited by artie_fufkin (4/23/2011 12:14 pm)

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Good to know you're OK. I guess the airport is re-opening Sunday, so Phillips won't have to live on 7-Eleven cuisine longer than he expected.
As much as I complain about winter lasting until mid-May here, I've never heard a tornado siren. I can't imagine too many things more terrifying.

It's funny what you get used to. The sirens went off 3 different times. We never even went to the basement.

We may need to rethink that strategy in the future.

Standing and watch at a window is what I am normally doing.  I figure if I see a tornado I will grab the kids and go to the basement.  I jut hte to wake them up and then deal with them all night for a 15 minute storm.  I wonder how easy it would be to see a tornado at night?

Last edited by APRTW (4/23/2011 2:50 pm)

Max wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Good to know you're OK. I guess the airport is re-opening Sunday, so Phillips won't have to live on 7-Eleven cuisine longer than he expected.
As much as I complain about winter lasting until mid-May here, I've never heard a tornado siren. I can't imagine too many things more terrifying.

i've lived with tornado sirens and with suicide bombers, and it's a toss up.  i suppose had i been around when the bombs went off i would find the choice easier.  even so, as fors wrote, it funny what you can get used, and we had full bomb inspections to get in and out of our complex for a few years there.  my oldest girls school was just outside the perimeter, so we'd walk back and forth through that twice a day, smiling and waving to guards with the mirrors and bomb detectors.

Yikes. My wife slept through a hurricane once, but it was only a category two.