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| Squirrel outside our bedroom window this morning. |
I guess I don't know if there is really a season for tornados, but if there is, it has begun in Iowa.
Late last night, there were many tornados, high winds and hail all around us. Tornado sirens were going off at the lake close to midnight. Just before the sirens started, we could hear the wind outside. A moment later, we heard the chair and table at the top of our landing outside the sunroom start tumbling down the stairs. (These are metal pieces that have never moved in the 12 years we have owned them.) The table landed at the bottom of the stairs but the chair turned left at the bottom and then blew about another 20 feet away from the house.
We also have a storage box on our patio downstairs. It's quite heavy and protected by the house and by the landscaping blocks. The wind picked it up, lifted it a few feet in order to clear the landcaping and then threw it into our neighbor's yard, breaking off the top and scattering the contents everywhere.
Our neighbor's boat moved about 10 feet.
Our other neighbor's heavy sliding patio door blew open and the wind knocked some things down inside of their home.
After reading the news of the tornados that touched down throughout Iowa last night, I am very grateful that we did not have any serious damage in our area.
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| Squirrel's friend joined him a moment later. |
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