There's nothing like a good, old-fashioned midwest thunderstorm to rattle your eardrums like no woofer ever could. We, having never actually experienced a tornado, are of the school of idiots who run outside to see what's going on when the tornado sirens go off.
They went off last weekend while we were a couple hundred miles away in Rhinelander, and the forewarned tornadoes destroyed a a huge swath of the town of Hugo east of Minneapolis. They went off again tonight, but the storms were contained and non-rotational. (Every Minnesotan is an amateur meteorologist, in case you didn't know.) Nonetheless, they dumped lots of dime-sized hail, which pelted the monkeys on our welcome mat, and when they continued to produce rain after the setting sun broke through the western clouds, they created a beauteous rainbow in the eastern sky.
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