For most folks living in the Ottawa area for their entire lives (like me) the idea of a really big tornado is certainly scary, but comfortably vague.  I saw Twister, neat movie.  But there’s no way a movie could prepare you for something like this.  The town of Greensburg Kansas is gone.

That’s just incredible.  Maybe the most amazing part is that so far only 9 people are reported dead out of a town of 1500.  The tornado that hit it was a mile-wide and awfully angry.

Amazing, and sad.