June 4, 2008
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Friday night we had some severe weather. There were tornadoes in the area. One of them touched down on the east side of Indianapolis. This tornado hit about half a block from where I work. It followed a road and tore up houses for about half a mile where it mainly knocked over tress and damaged some roofs. Then it probably really touched down and it tore through the area directly north of work. It destroyed an apartment complex called Falcon Point. Not just an apartment building but an entire apartment complex.
Saturday morning as I sat in the recliner sipping a coffee I read the story in the newspaper and like most people that read about things like this it seemed far away and distant even though it was only about 12 miles from our house. I read about the 70,000 plus residents that were without power. I logged into my servers at work to verify that we had power and that was the last of it.
Sunday more and more news stories came out about the damage but it didn't really hit me until I drove to work on Monday morning.
I just can't describe what I saw.
These apartments are leveled. The houses that suffered damages are mostly salvageable. The fast food restaurants, bank, gas station, and liquor store at the intersection near the apartments all suffered heavy damage.
To make a bad situation even worse this isn't the best area of town. Most of the people didn't have renters insurance so they pretty much lost everything. At work, four people are now homeless. It's all just so sad.
Other stuff....Friday night we did something but I don't remember what.
Saturday friends came over and we drank and hung out. Before the drinking we went shopping.
Sunday we went to Kings Island. It was a gorgeous day! We hit the water park and some of the roller coasters.
Monday I worked, drove to Peru to meet my parents half way since my sister had been staying with us.Tuesday I worked. I also watched Rambo (the new one, number 4). It was actually a really good movie. Sly still has it.
That's it!
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