Tornado in Minneapolis/St. Paul

[Shadow Storm]

I heard from Karl that there was a tornado in Minneapolis/St Paul today. I went and looked it up on the NOAA radar service, and there was a clearly defined image of the tornado on the local radar service.

No word on any damages or injuries yet, this event is still in progress. :ohno

[Dasquian Belargic]

Be safe, peeples :ohno

[Karl Valten]

We live! A minor tornado went through downtown minneapolis about 2 miles from where I work. Didn't see anything myself. Damage is mostly in the form of uprooted and busted trees with some shingles torn out and a few blown windows. No injuries reported.

A second touched down in cottage grove, one of the subburbs.

Storm is mostly over, all we have left now is street flooding in a few places.

So overall was fairly 'meh' for a tornado

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Well, I'm glad it was a minor tornado. We were just watching Raging Earth or something like that on Discovery and it was the one about tornadoes... pretty awe inspiring stuff. In a terrifying, 'so-glad-those-are-no-where-near-me' kind of way. :uhoh

[Charlotte Tur'enne]

Glad to hear there wasn't really much that came from it.

...still say I'll take my earthquakes (had one yesterday! whee!) over any weather-related scariness.

[Lykaios]

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Here's some footage from the damage in MPLS. Nothing uber-major, some roofs will need repairing and major clean-up needs to be done but no los of human lives, like Karl said pretty 'meh' indeed.

[Callista]

O_O I wasn't aware you guys GOT those up there!

Glad there was no injuries!!

[Blade Bacquin]

Minasota and South Dakota are the very north end of the tornado belt Callista so yeah we get them from time to time.

[Callista]

I call shenanigans :P

((but really I had no idea...))

[Karl Valten]

I used to get a lot more tornados living in Wisconsin. Usually had about 5-15 in a given year.

There were the odd years where we got twelve or so in the same day. Granted in a metro area the damage would be NUTS. While these were minor tornados that just kinda skipped about, anything stronger/longer would have done a lot of damage in down town.