Update.....

[disneydream06]

On the storm the other day...

A little town about 28 miles from us was nearly wiped out by a tornado. :o :o :o


Tornado flattens tiny Taopi in Mower County: 'Half the town is gone.'

Homes were destroyed and residents evacuated from the town of about 80 people southeast of Austin, Minn.

By Tim Harlow and Trey Mewes Star Tribune


https://www.startribune.com/storms-inflict-heavy-damage-on-taopi-in-mower-county/600164599/

Comments

[fairy69]

:( My god....but what I read was touching in the sense that small towns are very much where I would want to be for help within a community...

[disneydream06]

Yes, I am hoping this is a case of Minnesota Nice stepping up. :)

[kaishin108]

I couldn't open the Star Trib but I did a google search to see what was going on. Omg, that poor town. I didn't realize you had tornados up there or has the weather just gotten more extreme?

Hugs, helen

[disneydream06]

Oh No, Minnesota has it's fair share of tornados. :o
There was one day a couple of years ago, that Minnesota set a record, either for the year or all time, I can't remember, for the most tornados in one day or something like that. :o :o :o

[kaishin108]

So you are part of Tornado Alley, wow. I guess I thought you were too far North of all of that.

[disneydream06]

Yeah, I don't know if we are officially part of The Tornado Alley, but we get our fair share of them. :o :o :o

[thewayne]

We had a power outage Tuesday for six hours. Very windy day. Same time, fire started just north of us near Ruidoso and blew up to 15,000 acres in no time.

[disneydream06]

Holy Crap. :o

Our winds are just now dying down. We had a couple of days with gusts up around 60 mph. :o :o :o

[thewayne]

Yeah.  They've evacuated 5,000 people - Ruidosa's base population, outside of tourist season - 8,000!  Two people killed thus far, they waited just a little too long to evacuate and were found dead inside their home.

[disneydream06]

O.M.g.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope nobody else will die. :o

[thewayne]

The evac order got out early enough that it's unlikely anyone else will die.  The winds have died down, the day the fire started was VERY windy and that's when the couple died and the fire bloomed from start to 15k acres.

[disneydream06]

I hope they can get it out soon. :o

[burning_heart]

O_O Omg. It was really windy here too. It was not fun.

[disneydream06]

I took Maggie out the other day and the wind caught me up under my hood and almost knocked me over backward. :o :o :o

[burning_heart]

The typhoons somewhere did that, you know the butterfly effect???

[disneydream06]

EEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[burning_heart]

Oh yes... it is very windy out today. o_O

[disneydream06]

We seem to get one day of not much wind, and then it comes right back again. UGH........

[burning_heart]

It's rainy and windy... :o

[disneydream06]

YUCK...
I know we need the rain, but enough already for awhile. lol...

[burning_heart]

Its gonna rain again today methinks. :o

[disneydream06]

We have possible storms tonight. :o