Well if you live on a rock... you probably have heard of the tornado "outbreak" (WTF? Last time i checked in my area an outbreak was at least 10 tornadoes!!! Not fucking 2!) that hit the Branson area. Well... before i give the NWS report in a different post. Let me give my account. Personally i slept through the whole thing. I was dreaming of... well to put it nicely.. giant stuff and things (like giant humans and anthro dinos/wolves) and when i woke up at 5am, lots of reporters were in two areas: Branson which is 8 miles eastsoutheast of my house and Buffalo which is 75 miles north of my house. Apparently the storm went through when i was first in my dream state of sleep around midnight. We got nothing in my area but the storms really hit hard about 5 miles south of my house in the quiet retirement town of Kimberling City. The local fishing tournament that was scheduled to take place there is now cancelled and Branson as well as Buffalo schools were closed today. Reeds Spring went since the Kimberling City area only encompasses about 45% of the whole district which covers most of Stone County.
That is all.
I live 6 hours east of Zilla (by car). Whatever weather he gets, we get about 2-4 hours later. Normally, I'd have slept through the whole thing, but I have an 8-year old. The little boy came into our room and told us he couldn't sleep with the rain hitting his windows. Odd, I thought, since his windows face east and the rain never hits the windows. Enter tornado-like conditions, and bam, you have rain hitting the windows. I got no sleep.
Fortunately, the winds were strong, but not tornadic (a new word I heard a meteorologist use) and the bad stuff passed over us and hit the little town to the east of us, Newburgh. The next morning, I heard on the radio that you shouldn't bother heading into Newburgh, the police weren't going to let you enter. It's a cute little river town, an historic district and some of the older homes lost their roofs and likely will have to be razed. Can't imagine what it's like to have an investment in an historic home, only to no longer have said investment.
Today, it's sunny, still a bit wet, and warmish.