Tornado Part 3: Shelter
It’s freaking hot under those mattresses, even at 10:30 at night.
Someone said my ears would pop from the tornado pressure.
We already knew it had destroyed nearby Chapman, Kansas.
Now it was here in Manhattan, still on the ground.
Everyone had their cellphones turned on.
“It’s in the SW Miller Ranch area.”
“The True Value store is gone.” Gone?
It’s on campus. “It hit Fiedler Hall.”
Why would anyone attend a cheerleading camp in Kansas?
June 11th Tornado Information with Photos (noaa.gov)
Tornado Track Through Manhattan, Kansas (noaa.gov)
Kansas State University Damage (K-State.edu)
“There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Quotation from Albert Einstein
June 25th, 2008 at 5:57 am
Is that you in the photos? Glad to hear you’re ok!
June 25th, 2008 at 9:05 am
LOL Tobie, you *know* I’m not blonde.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I guess in-laws means a near death experience
Looks like you have another story to tell, glad your alive.
June 25th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
You made it out of Kansas alive!!!
“There’s no place like home.” ~ Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz
June 25th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
I’ll go with Einstein’s theory. How can I lose?
June 26th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Well, I saw a cute girl in glasses, and I automatically assumed it was you =)
June 26th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Without reading the accompanying text, I would be like, great, a tornado’s coming and these people decide to have a slumber party? How cool is that?? I would’ve been stressed.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Same here, for a second I thought it was you in the pictures and then realized there were no way you would be blond. I just can’t picture you as a blond.
Well, I guess you can come back home. Your Kansas experience is completed isn’t it?
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 pm
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