I'd go out and take the pics myself but camera needs a new battery. The storms last night got so bad all acess to springfield, IL, police had to shut down all highways and roads into the city. Springfield got hit by atleast 2 tornadoes.
(//vny!://www.ksdk.com/assetpool/images/06312191036_festus2.jpg)[/DIV]Saturday night, tornadoes cut a path through several counties south of St. Louis, Mo., and into Illinois. These are pictures from Jefferson County, Mo.
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more coming. The Tornadoes on Saturday were F3's.
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(//vny!://www.ksdk.com/assetpool/images/06312213319_perry2.jpg)[/DIV]Sunday, the cleanup was underway in Perry County.
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(//vny!://www.ksdk.com/assetpool/images/063130329_randolph1.jpg)[/DIV]Damage in Randolph County from the Saturday night storms.
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Now that is truly frightening! I wouldn't want to live there for anything. What a horrible experience for those people that survived.
Where ever you live you will always have problems with weather/disasters.[/DIV]If you live in the midwest you have to worry about flooding and tornadoes.[/DIV]If you live on the west coast you have to worry and prepare yourself for tsunami's, earthquakes, mud slides and floods.[/DIV]Want to move to Florida? Get ready for hurricanes.[/DIV]Northeast: Blizzards[/DIV]Southwest: Fires and droughts