ONLY ONE TINY TORNADO SEEN SO FAR

This one BIG country. Three days, five states. My report so far.... 1.There is still snow and crazy cold weather in Idaho. 2.Utah still has a big lake and things look as dry as a popcorn fart. 3. In Wyoming the roughnecks are erecting mega oil drilling rigs. Smarter folks are sprouting big white wind farms to capture natures windy diatribes. 4. Colorado looks like a realtor's wet dream. On every hill, new condos. In every valley, the latest in mega national business fortresses. And the roads, still rougher than a corn cob rolling down a cobblestone street. 5. Kansas, ah yes Kansas, that flat area just east of the Rockies that gives birth to swirling masses of wind that can, like on May 4th, 2007, come with such a force that an entire town, like Greensburg, can be leveled in as little as a minute and a half. Residents fled. Those that didn't died. Except for a few heartly souls. One who lit a cigar and layed back in his old cast iron tub as the roof and a car landed square on top of him in his little private nicotine dream. He survived. His son told me the whole story. And one guy, one trucker was sucked clean out of his semi and thrown half a mile across town. That was the grizzly story. There's others, and many more. Like the junk dealer guy down the road who thinks Greeensburg is geetting way too much money to rebuild. That they bulldozed perfectly good buildings rather that rebuild with old wood. That 3/4 of the nations universities should be shut down because, "You take a young feller see, and you stick him in there with only one professor and he comes out knowing only what that one professer knowed, and that probably aint much, why he's not worth the dynamite ta blow him up...." Whew. Such a BIG country, and filled with so many legends, interesting folks and bumpy roads to wander down. I may never get back home. HOBO
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[laurie]

Happy Earth Day, Dan! Yeah, things are getting a little out of hand, but I'm glad we still have the voice of reason - our HOBO. Take care!

[deborah]

http://www.kansas.com/static/slides/050507tornadoaerials/
I thought this was interesing..to see the power of nature from up high..I can't even imagine, the lives that were tore apart...