A dark and stormy day -- again!

TuTu spent about 20 minutes on the front patio today when a patch of
sunshine reluctantly appeared. MLB

MLB wrote
TuTu spent about 20 minutes on the front patio today when a patch of
sunshine reluctantly appeared.

We had constant rain all day. This has to be the wettest May on record here.

Yesterday a city about 100 miles west of us was smashed to pieces by a
monster tornado:

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The extraordinary Joplin, Mo., tornado - the single deadliest twister since
officials began keeping records in 1950 - was a rare destructive phenomenon
known as a "multi-vortex," hiding two or more cyclones within the wider wind
funnel.

Sunday's storm smashed the southwest Missouri city's hospital, left nothing
but splintered trees where neighborhoods once stood and killed at least 116
people, with the death toll expected to rise. The storm injured 500 others
and damaged or destroyed at least 2,000 buildings.

Much of the south side of the city of 50,000 was leveled, with churches,
schools, businesses and homes reduced to ruins by winds estimated as high as
198 mph.

The tornado, estimated to be an EF4 by the National Weather Service, carved
a path six miles long and one-half to three-quarters of a mile wide.

Full story:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...twister24.html

On May 24, 12:32*am, "Pat" wrote:
MLB wrote

TuTu spent about 20 minutes on the front patio today when a patch of
sunshine reluctantly appeared.

We had constant rain all day. This has to be the wettest May on record here.

Yesterday a city about 100 miles west of us was smashed to pieces by a
monster tornado:

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The extraordinary Joplin, Mo., tornado - the single deadliest twister since
officials began keeping records in 1950 - was a rare destructive phenomenon
known as a "multi-vortex," hiding two or more cyclones within the wider wind
funnel.

Sunday's storm smashed the southwest Missouri city's hospital, left nothing
but splintered trees where neighborhoods once stood and killed at least 116
people, with the death toll expected to rise. The storm injured 500 others
and damaged or destroyed at least 2,000 buildings.

Much of the south side of the city of 50,000 was leveled, with churches,
schools, businesses and homes reduced to ruins by winds estimated as high as
198 mph.

The tornado, estimated to be an EF4 by the National Weather Service, carved
a path six miles long and one-half to three-quarters of a mile wide.

Full story:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...30853_twister2...

I also had heard initially that at times the tornado was rain-wrapped,
a not-so-rare phenomenon
that makes them difficult to see coming except by radar. An especially
deadly phenomenon
with a twister so large. Events of the past month have been enough to
jar me out of
complacency so that I've located all my cat carriers and put them in a
convenient place just
in case.

Sherry