Weather Adventure

For the second time in less than a year, my wife and I found ourselves in the middle of a tornado adventure. Yesterday afternoon, around 5:30, a tornado touched down here in Huntsville, Alabama. My wife and I were driving separately. She took the photo below with her Treo after she had pulled to the side of the road.

Here's a close up:


I, on the other hand, was roughly 1/4 to a 1/2 mile in front of the tornado's path. Amazing thing was, I never saw the funnel, although she insisted that it was right behind me. I was caught in rush hour traffic, with really nowhere to go anyway. Never rained or hailed on me. Obviously we were fortunate, as the storm caused some damage in various spots of the city. Below is a map that shows some of the damage spots, with an indicator of where we *think* I was at the time:


In any event, we are all safe. Janet's photo even got air time on a local news station during both the 6:00 and 10:00 newscasts. Pretty cool stuff. Here's the station's photo gallery.

Here are a couple of videos (a bit too long, some language NSF kids, but interesting):




Quite a day.