Oh, no, a Funk Tornado! Quick, everybody get to the Mothership!
Lux Fiat, they hadn’t invented Funk in 1967. This was a Soul tornado.
Pfft. The Funk defies your pedestrian notions of “linear time.” 
It’s sunny and calm here now, thankfully.
But you can’t help but freaking out when it’s that close. My client has a construction site right near there so that was an added scare.
Luckily the damage was very slight. It seems to have been a wimpy tornado.
< whew >
You know, I’ve been in the midwest. Hate tornadoes. Always glad I live out in Earthquake territory. Give me a good ole fashioned unepected earthquake any day. There’s none of that anticipation and worrying. Bam, it just happens.
[finish hijack once and for all] Okay, Lux, a good bass line played loud enough can rip a hole in the space-time continuum, but I only had a pocket transistor radio back then. However, I have since precipitated thunderstorms playing “Voodoo Child” very loud. [/finish hijack once and for all]
So, TC68, you lived through it. Good. A little danger gets your blood flowing and reminds you that you’re still alive, doesn’t it?
Damn, and I was hoping to get out of work, too.
(Lex works like 50 feet from techchic)
Oh well. Being at work is better than being dead, I guess. But not by much.
TC, don’t die in a tornado until my next visit to Denver. We have to go to lunch or dinner or a drink or something.
(It will be the next ‘big trip’ I go on, but it might not be until around Thanksgiving or Christmas, or maybe even later in the winter.)
it really was no miracle
what happened was just this
the wind began to switch
the house to pitch
and suddenly the hinges started to unhitch
just then the witch to satisfy an itch
came flying on her broomstick thumbing for a hitch
and oh, what happened then was rich!
Sorry techy, but I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.
all these itch words and they
didn’t use Sarah erm I mean bitch
Glad to hear you are okay tech.
Lux you really crack me up!
Lexicon,
It was out east off Powers and Constitution, not near were we work.
They are building a new Cinemark with an IMAX theater…should be pretty cool.
All is fine < yipee >
Glad to see TechChick’s ok.
Now I got that J. Geils Band video running in my head, thanks to PLDennison.
*those soft fuzzy sweaters, too magical to touch
to see her in that negligee was really just too much…*
Man, that was MTV in its glory days!
Growing up in Beavercreek OH, actually was around when the Xenia Tornado tore up that city back in '74.
Personally, am a bit irritated, I moved to San jose expecting earthquakes…my first five months out here, the bay area had to small tornados and Dayton had a tremor…the weather ghods hate me. 
Glad to hear everything’s okay.
We had a bit of a scare here too. No, not a tornado (that would be quite a sight in Hawaii, let me tell you), but a brush fire. We have them fairly often in the summer, except this was the first one in that particular area in nearly 3 years, hence the dry brush had accumulated. And “that particular area” is less than 2 miles from my house.
They had to shut down an entire highway since the flames had actually come up to the guardrail, and thanks to some wind, had spread across 4 lanes of highway.
Fortunately, it was extinguished yesterday afternoon with no damage to houses here.
Audrey, are you talking about the one near the 134-5 interchange? If so, it slowed my commute home, but the highway wasn’t closed yet (5:30-6pm.) The smoke was pretty thick, though; driving through it, I thought I might come out in a parallel universe.
Rilchiam, I live in Honolulu! Sorry, my bad, I should have been more specific as to where I was…
[tease] That’s quite a commute you got there, crossing half the Pacific! I thought my route home was long, sheesh… 
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Ok, ok I’ll stop.
I talked to my mom by telephone (she was in downtown) as the fire was going… Seems she had a better view of the smoke from her high-rise building fifteen miles away than I did, not two miles from the fire itself!!
The fire started at about 3 in the afternoon, thus catching EVERYONE on their way home that day. People didn’t get home until as late as 9pm, I heard.
We have had enough tornados here for the year thank you very much. We don’t need another one for a long time.
Tonight was another one of those nights here, the skies were apocolyptic and there were several funnel clouds sighted although we seemed to have dodged the bullet… today. I was really happy to see the thunderheads go around our house and keep going eastward.