Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Tornado Path

I ran across this weather report of the tornado that rolled through here a couple of weeks back. Of interest is this map of the tornado path here in south Minneapolis.


If you go to the link above you can click on the picture and zoom a bit better than this picture here. Either tornado damage is concentrated on the east side of their path or the red line there is about a block too far west. Either way you can see that it was very close to our place (between Park and Portland a couple of blocks south of Lake St).
The FP Gal says that a tornado can make a neighborhood change from old looking to new. She's talking about the number of large trees. There is a section on Portland between 40th and 46th that looks this way. Eye-witness reports suggested that the funnel never landed, just hovered some 30 ft in the air or so. The damage backs that up. Big trees down everywhere, lawn ornaments untouched.
It still doesn't feel quite real.

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