Folks around Springfield, MO had a long, long night...last I heard were a couple of confirmed deaths, but they were still digging through lots of rubble. Took the roof clean off one of the schools in Republic, and lots of other schools in the area are closed due to damage...numerous seperate tornadoes on the ground, lots of baseball size and bigger hail...bad, bad, bad. I keep a close eye on Springfield, as my eldest daughter lives there with her mother.
Stayed pretty much west of us, though, as we just got the straight line gusts and rain/hail...hit here around 4:30am...sounded like a freight train coming across the bottom field...never heard anything like it, just a slow build of wind & noise over about 20 seconds, and then all heck broke loose. About 1/2 between our house and town a guy lost the roof off one of his shops and one end of it, framing and all, was gone, with a lot of it lieing on top of the garage next to it...they kept saying on the radio early this morning that a shop building south of Alton had lost it's roof, so everyone was calling to see if it was ours!
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