Even I was a little freaked out!
The radar was looking pretty ominious and I was quite looking forward to a good show, but DAMN that was one hell of a freaky storm. I’m glad I was inside a nice sturdy building and not stuck in a car taking shelter under an interstate bridge.
I can only imagine what it was like for someone who didn’t know it was coming and got caught. Can you imagine being on the outer fringes of a golf course? Yikes. I’m sure there were more than a few out there.
Update: Took my usual route home, south down University. Past Forrest Hill looks like a friggin war zone! I was hoping my Cubs flag that I used to proudly fly would be ripped to shreds, but unfortunately, no such luck.
July 19th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Seriously scary. I threw the cats in their carriers just in case we had to hide from a tornado. It was so DARK outside, and the power here kept going out, so I couldn’t see a darned thing.
July 20th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Mmm popcorn and beer !
July 20th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Best quote of the night by a lady who called into 1470:
The lights are out at the intersection of Knoxville and War Memorial, which means it is treated as a 4-way stop, unfortunately NO ONE IN PEORIA KNOWS WHAT TO DO AT A 4-WAY STOP!
July 20th, 2006 at 7:20 pm
HA! She only says that because she’s never lived in North Carolina, where they treat the stop sign on the big street as a semi-yield, and the stop sign on the small street as a stop-until-traffic-is-gone sign.