Well, we had an interesting night tonight! Huge hail and high winds all around us! Tornado warnings and the tornado sirens were going off. As you've seen, I drive a Lumina Van, and it has a 12 square foot windshield, so I moved the van to the parking garage on Wabash Landing. This is a SECURE parking garage, designed to withstand wind speeds of 400 mph, and even an earthquake. Betcha didn't know that Lafayette, Indiana is an earthquake zone, by the way, we have a subfault running right under town connecting with the New Madrid Fault, so that's why the seismic standard!

Well, the largest hail was just to our north, with BASEBALL sized hail. There were a total of 5 funnel cloud sightings around us as well! The images aren't of the storms to hit here, they are stock footage from weatherstock.com. This is the type of storms we had, however!

Well, the storm totals are 8" of snow! For those of you that are metric, that's 20 Cm on the ground with snow drifts around 3 feet or just short of a meter deep drifting across the roads. It's ok in town, but outside of the city, the roads are positively dangerous! I was stuck several times while I was out getting the pictures. This definately puts the kaibosh on the ride I was planning in the morning. The forcast was for only an inch, but you know the weatherman, I knew early on they were going to be off by a little bit!

Congratulations to BIGMike down under there in OZ and MochaMomma
It appears that MSN Spaces selected them both to be in the best of feature! Cool beans to both of you!