Submitted by Piskowit on Mon, 04/17/2006 - 03:29.
So, me and Kaliv used to live in the place shown here but, someone stole our roof!
2 tornados had their way with Iowa City, IA...home to the University of Iowa on Thursday night, April 13th. They measured F1 and F2 on the fujita scale, and destroyed only select building in their path. Apparently this tornado had some issues with ice cream (destroyed a Dairy Queen AND Happy Joes), loves alcohol (Only took out the windows and doors to the liquor house, leaving a clear path for students to get some free booze. Also, it took out our living room, and destroyed most everything there EXCEPT for our wall of empty alcohol bottles, which was for the most part untouched. Take a look here).
Also, this tornado didn't seem to like the idea of people going to church on a Thursday night (destroyed a church near us while 70+ people were there. The pastor lead them all to the basement before hand, so no one was hurt. Although, the church is only half the church it used to be), however the buildings surrounding this church were untouched. One of them had 2x4s impaled through the side of it and a few broken windows, but no structural damage.
Anyway, the good news is no one was seriously injured in Iowa City! If you want to see more pics, you can go to the university website at www.uiowa.edu. Should be on the front page.
Needless to say, me and Kaliv might be out of ffxi for a few weeks until we can find a place to call home. We were fairly lucky, though I did lose a few things... a few sofas, coffee table...and all my dishes, but renters insurance should take care of those XD
See you all in a few weeks I hope!