Tornado damage

Tornadoes hit around me in University City and Clayton on Friday, but I was hunkered down in my bathroom with doors closed between me and big things whomping against my windows:  SLAM-BANG-BAM!  My friend Nova took this photo of a damaged building with parts of the walls torn off.  That is less than four miles frrom where Nova and I live at the Crown Center.  (Click on the photo to enlarge it.)

My friend in Florida texted on Friday afternoon to see if I was okay.  She said that they lost two tree tops a few weeks ago, when a tornado went through a mile from her house.  On Saturday, a friend in Pennsylvania called to check on me, and my son in Tennessee texted to see if I was okay.  On Sunday, a friend in Canada emailed because she'd heard about the tornadoes.  A friend in middle-Tennessee sent an email saying, "Your area and places north and a bit east of me in KY seem to have had the worst of it."

For those of you relying on new posts showing up on this blog to tell you how I am doing, I hate to tell you that I frequently pre-post things for certain dates.  So it is quite possible that posts will continue to appear long after I die, whether of old age (I'm 85, after all) or tornadoes.