There's a Tornado On The Other Side Of That Cloud Bank

The older kid recently informed me that Tornado Alley is moving East, and I believe her! I swear that in the past 12 months I have had more near misses with tornadoes than I had in my entire childhood living just adjacent to the actual Tornado Alley--and that includes having my childhood home actually struck by a tornado! 

The kid, who's about to graduate with an Environmental Science degree into Trump's America, might as well get used to foretelling doomsday scenarios, sigh.

Fortunately, everything so far has passed just barely to our north (that tree on the house incident was a derecho, not a tornado), but I want to emphasize how VERY barely. The church just across the highway from us was damaged in a tornado last Spring. Then about six weeks later the local post office was demolished in another tornado. Then a few weeks ago I stood on the back deck to get this video of continuous lightning, one of the warning signs of an impending tornado:

I couldn't tell if the continuous thunder was actual thunder or, you know, a tornado bearing down upon me, but if I was tornadokilled, I at least would have been tornadokilled taking awesome photos of lightning!

That tornado also ended up hitting northwest of us, so we're three for three in misses so far!

Thoughts and prayers that all the tornados continue to pass us by, because I'm pretty sure our insurance will drop us if they have to pay for yet another new roof so close to the last roofening.

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