Bad wind

[sigma7]

While flipping channels aimlessly last night, I happened onto a station showing a Doppler radar image of Greensburg, Kansas, and noticed one of the more profound "hook" signals I think I'd ever seen on radar. Worse, it was directly over the town of about 1,500. Come the morning and news that 75 to 90 percent of the town is destroyed, wiped off the map by a half-mile-wide tornado. At least seven people dead, but fortunately, my older friends' family is okay, according to a very welcome update from daethkow.

The forecast for today and tonight: more of the same, from Texas into the Dakotas. Swell.

And if anyone advises you to park under and overpass and run underneath it when a tornado is approaching, don't listen to them.