T&P - How are you ladies doing in this ~lovely~ midwest November weather?

WildMagelet

Are all of our Central IL ladies doing okay?  

Our crew is all fine, but we know someone who lost their house (family is all safe though, so that's what matters!)

dluberts

we live right outside gifford il*one of the towns hit hard by a tornado,and although we were spared we could hear the tornado ripping through the toen.it was pretty aweful

WildMagelet

Yeah they were talking about Gifford and Washington (where I have family) pretty much non-stop on the news today when referencing the storms.  Last counts I heard were over 70 tornadoes and 8 dead (6 in IL)

dluberts

there were about 80 reported tornadoes but only a handful of confirmed. I know the talk shows blew up the number!lol.

WildMagelet

Well, I'm sure slower tornadoes and the ones who didn't hit residential areas are included in the count but not obviously aren't covered nearly as much on the news as the big ones that wrecked cities and took lives.  I know the one in Washington was listed as an E4.  Wikipedia lists 2 E4s and 3 E5s.  58 confirmed thusfar out of 105 reported.