Who would'a thought? While I was gallivanting around with me kiddos in the relative sunshine, 130 miles north folks were seeing this...
Not long after that they were seeing this...
and then...
Twister rips up homes,
cars — in Oregon
AUMSVILLE, Ore. — A rare tornado struck the town of Aumsville on Tuesday, tearing roofs off buildings, hurling objects into vehicles and homes and uprooting trees.
The heaviest damage seemed to be in the central part of this town of 3,560 people located 45 miles south of Portland. Twisters are rare in this part of the country — just three others have touched down in the region over the last decade.
"We saw a trampoline fly over a church. It was like the Wizard of Oz," said Gara Adams, who works at Neufeldt's Restaurant on Main Street in Aumsville.
Hills said people in her office listened as "the loudest hail I've ever heard" pounded the roof of the building. Then, a funnel cloud appeared and debris ripped from the roofs of houses began to fly toward downtown.
For resident Stefania McCully, it was simply huge. "It sounded extremely loud outside," she told KGW. "My lights started to flicker and I opened the blinds and I saw the huge tornado behind my back yard. The sucker was probably three times as big and up to the sky. It's just creepy, the thing was so big ... I'm just a little frazzled."
And all while we were harvesting Guatemalan cocoa beans at Jake's and Isaac's school. You just never know.
