Do you live in east central Minnesota or the Twin Cities? We are under a tornado watch right now. One hit a small town about 60 miles west of here earlier this evening. I have never seen a tornado in person and would like to keep it that way.
A few years ago my neighborhood was hit by 90 mile per hour straight line winds during a thunderstorm... that was intense, a couple of houses were destroyed by trees and my windows blew out. The next day there was a storm that created tornados and funnel clouds in every county between St Paul and Des Moines, Iowa simultaneously (about 250 miles IIRC). It never even rained where I was but the sky was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in nature. It was like a very organized machine made out of clouds...clouds like I have never seen before; mountains of perfectly symetrical little cotton balls, rippled clouds like upside-down purple waves, little round circulating things between them. I can't find the right words to do it justice. I believe the phenomenon is called a meso-convective complex and is uncommon even in tornado country (maybe it is more common in Texas or Oklahoma but it has only happened once in the last 15 years here).
Hmm... as I write this the TV tells me that there are 70+ mile per hour winds comming towards us, hopefully I won't lose power.
Any sort of weather.
