We're okay

Just wanted to let everyone know if you heard about tornadoes ripping through Kansas last night that we are okay. We did have to take shelter at about 11:15pm in the basement when the sirens went off but all we got was some rain.

However, please keep in your prayers the town of Chapman, which is about a 30 minute drive north of us. The town is only about 8 blocks wide and a tornado ripped through about 6 blocks of it. We are hearing reports that it is about 80% destroyed. We have friends whose parent live there and I have heard that they are okay but that they lost their house. The schools are destroyed and 2 churches. The funeral home is gone. It basically went through the downtown business district, destroyed 60 homes, 30 homes have major damage and 20 or so more homes have minor damage.

A tornado also hit Manhattan, which is where we go to do shopping. It hit the Kansas State University campus and damaged some buildings there. My bosses home was hit with debris and houses 300 yards from his were leveled (about 30-40 homes gone) and there was a car dealership and lumber yard that were very heavily damaged. Manhattan just had a hail storm that came through there about 1 1/2 weeks ago too. They had softball size hail that destroyed cars parked at the airport and some manufacturing plants out there. My bosses cousin owns a used car dealership and they had about 250 cars on the lot and all of them were totalled.

It is scary and sad and I pray we never have to go through something like that. This has just been a bad year for weather between the tornadoes and hail and the ice storm in December.