Still still here.

[vakkotaur]

~5:20 PM Arrived home. Sky overcast. No rain.
~6:00 PM Heavy rain. Sirens sound. Sky greenish. Went to basement.
~6:10 PM Heavy rain. Sirens stop. Waited, emerged. As if nothing happened.
~6:20 PM Power goes out. UPSes kick in. Shut belgian down.
~6:25 PM Power returns. Leave belgian off, set clocks.
~6:45 PM See TV warning for points east. Claims of tornado damage in Fairmont mentioned.
~7:00 PM Jay gets back from Minneapolis. We unload the car and go eat. See some branches down. That's all.

Much later, see this: http://www.startribune.com/stories/1524/3960938.html

Not much, perhaps, but that's too close. I recall '97 when I woke up a couple times to hear places I had been weren't exactly there anymore. And when driving along had seen very low clouds moving south.. and a not much later seen other very low clouds moving north.. decided I wanted to be elsewhere - badly.

[It'd be nice if the Star-Trib would put up a story and leave it alone, aside from needed corrections, rather than change the whole story and use the same URL. The original story made much more sense as a link here. It actually mentioned Fairmont and such. Mood=annoyed. Addendum: And then the links go stale, too...]