Reply #162: My understanding is that it is a city with 200,000 plus?

[truedelphi]

What a terrible thing this is.

Beyond understanding.

And four twisters hit the Minneapolis area last night.

I grew up in Chicago. And back in the fities and the sixties, it was a rule of thumb that no MidWestern city or town near large lakes needed to worry about tornadoes. Then in the sixties, the southside of Chciago was hit with a tornado. A very minor twister, but it did destroy a few homes.

The older people in the area - especially those brought up on farms -would remark that once the interstate highways came in, and the forests were chopped down for roads, shopping malls and for homes, that the natural protection that places like Chicago and other cities usually had, would be gone. It sure looks like those older people were true prophets.