Tornadoes

Tornadoes came ripping through Iowa Monday night. That's not necessarily news: Iowa, summer, tornadoes. But how close the tornadoes came to our home is newsworthy. Maybe...4-5 miles away by car...they started cutting a swath across fields. My wife and I drove out last night. And as you've read...you can see the path of tornado very clearly from the destruction it brings. It's a clearly marked path. Corn on one side of the road flat; corn on the other side upright, untouched. And as it about hit the city limits it changed path...otherwise, these photos of cornfields could instead have been of our house lying flat.

Here's my flickr photo set for Tornadoes. (Don't expect to be wowed. I'm doing this as much to learn how to use Flickr as to showcase my photo-graphy skills...)

Here's my flickr photo set for Summer Storm. My wife and I were out driving 'round as this storm came ripping through to welcome the first day of Summer. (Maybe our next career will be as storm chasers...There's an interesting adrenaline rush driving around in a storm we both seem to enjoy, especially with cameras in our hands. I can see us in our 80's yelling Hurry up. Get your Depends on and get in the car...a storm's a comin'...!! )