And....The Winds Blew

Lots of activity the last few days here in Minnesota. Nearly 40 tornadoes touched down this past Thursday afternoon and evening destroying ove 100 homes and damaging hundreds of others.
Since I work for the American Red Cross, weekend camping plans were put on hold while we served the needs of thousands of victems and volunteers.
Here is a link to what happened:
American Red Cross
We will be working one-on-one with the clients now to help speed their recovery so they can get back to semi-normal real soon.

Tornado Towers

If you lived in the Mankato, MN area in the 70's and 80's you were well aware of this landmark.

In about 1971 some guy had the brilliant idea that this concept was the wave of the future.

People would purchase a mobile home and a crane would slide it between the concrete supports. Then when they wanted to move, a crane would drag it out of it's nest and they would put wheels under it and haul it to it's next concrete and tin highrise.

Well, the idea flopped. Once those babies were put in they stayed until they fell apart and torn down by the city.

I will say that I knew someone who rented one while we were going to college. They were pretty nice inside until the winds blew. At that point it got interesting. They would shake, rattle and almost roll. Propped fifty feet in the air made the pucker factor rise several notches.

About the only thing nice about that place was the fact that all you had to say was Tornado Towers and everyone knew what part of town you were talking about.

Thanks to my brother-in-law Chris for sending me this picture to show you.
Tune in again soon for another edition of "Now What Are They Doing?"