Some background:
Yesterday evening Joplin, Missouri was directly hit by a tornado that completely destroyed 30% of the city, including a major hospital, the Walmart, Home Depot, some schools, and many other important buildings for a rural city. So far, a little over 12 hours later, around 90 people are dead however no one's sure how many are missing, and with all the destroyed buildings and debris it'll take them awhile to determine that. The emergency crews from the Alabama tornados last month went up to help out, and the Red Cross is taking doctors and donations to help out.
Although I am not in Missouri- I'm just south in Arkansas- we had to ride through the same storms and had no less than three tornado warnings ourselves, and it was scary. I grew up in Tornado Alley so I know what to generally expect, but this series of storms was pretty nasty. The damage at my house was negligable, but the farther north you go towards Joplin the worse it gets. And even better, it's supposed to do the exact same thing tonight- storms, tornados, hail. This will not help the Joplin folk or search and rescue teams.
So if you have some dollars to spare, it would help quite a few Missourians if you sent them over to The Red Cross.
Update (later same day):
It just felt wrong not having a few photos on the blog, so I figured I'd show you a storm photo and what I've got done on my dresser runner I'm working on. Since there's at least a day and a half more of these severe storms on the forecast I imagine I'll be able to get quite a bit more done.
Rising floodwaters and a downed tree at a nearby bridge. 5" of rain today alone.
4 inches thick so far, about 3 feet to go.
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