Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

"Skywise" wrote in message ...

My first thought upon seeing this graphic was, "Is that all
the bigger Iowa City is? It's just a little town!!!"

I guess I'm used to living in the LA area where I can drive
for hours and tens of miles and never 'leave' the city.

Brian
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We have acclimated so much that a 45 minute drive up to Grand Rapids is a really big deal - never used though much of
driving an hour down to LA to go to the Getty or something similar. Living in the midwest does sort of shrink the world
view, at least as far as driving is concerned....

Hi Jay!
That's terrible news! I'm glad to hear you and your family are OK. Sorry
to hear that you and so many of your friends and neighbors were hit so
hard...

Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone there.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1144991211.918555.250210
@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado
sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were

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Nature is amazing, and we were so very lucky. Our hangar and plane are
unscathed, the hotel was just nicked a glancing blow, and our home is
fine. There's no word on casualties yet, but from the looks of things,
there almost had to be some.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
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