At work about 551 pm, we were told to go to the basement as a tornado was spotted near Loami at 546. Wunderground says that at 559, a tornado was at Illinois 4 and Mansion Road. At 600 it was spotted at Wabash Avenue and Koke Mill Road, mere blocks from my house. Reports of power lines down there and at Wabash and Veterans Parkway. Mrs. 26th Man and family are OK for now.. don’t know about damage to the house. She says she was told that Lowe’s and GFS, both of which are very close to our house, were damaged.
Visit sj-r.com for breaking news updates on the April 2 tornado.
UPDATE 7:09 PM: Marie at Disarranging Mine liveblogged the tornado. She relays reports of a “1200-lb. boat in a house near Wabash Avenue and Chatham Road.”
UPDATE 7:23 PM: Nate Mihelich of NC20 reports an “obliterated” mobile home in Riverton.
UPDATE 8:15 PM: Reports of two mobile homes “destroyed” in Riverton. Dogs are searching for survivors, but both homes believed to be unoccupied. Two injuries reported there.
July 14, 2007 at 2:22 pm
[...] Jiminy crap… I have about had it with this bullcrap weather. Before last month, Springfield had gone nearly 50 years without having a tornado hit. Now we’ve had three in the past three weeks. Funk dat. [...]