Tornadoes are our illegal immigrants

On Sunday my wife had a friend and her one year old daughter come with us to eat dinner at my wife's favorite restaurant - Her friend and her daughter were born and raised in Arizona and this was her first trip to Missouri so as we drove down Rangeline Road in the center of Joplin  and the dark clouds started forming a few jokes were made about tornadoes - apparently for those people that don't live with this stuff all the time tornadoes are a pretty scary event but for the most part we ignore them unless they actually mention our address on news coverage as a possible impact zone.
When the power was cut inside the restaurant I remember telling this worried mother, "Don't worry about it, they always make a big deal out of these things and then nothing really happens, sort of the same way people in California might think about a small earthquake or to put it in Arizona terms: tornadoes are our illegal immigrants."



The storm came and apparently I was wrong about the not worrying thing because everything we drove though to get there was now gone ten minutes later. We missed the tornado by literally a couple blocks and ten minutes - and this this was a mile wide. We saw a lot of the destruction on the way home - over turned trucks and cars some smashed up houses and trees stripped of branches, and that was not in Joplin it was off the interstate, we avoided going back home through Joplin not knowing how back it was down there.

This shows some of the scale, keep in mind we missed this by a couple blocks.

Long story short, we made it, my family members made it and I am thinking about moving to Arizona.

I will have more later on this later but in this blog I tend to make jokes (bad ones) about stuff like this and it seems sort of in bad taste to do that when they are still finding bodies.