South Minneapolis Tornado!

We were all away at our daily destinations when the tornado passed though today - three blocks over at our house not a branch was out of place. There were huge crews from Asplundh and Bratt slowly making their way South, and loads of cops strangely not telling anyone to move back.

You know it's Minnesota though when the tree crew is a block away and closing, and homeowners are still like: nah, I'm just going to cut it up myself and my mom will chuck it onto the pile (see middle pic above) - I saw several examples of that.

Crushed cars, 100 year old raggedly sheared-off giants, huge dirt piles and holes where the tree used to stand, commuters parking in the middle of the street, mouths open stumbling towards their tree-covered houses. Pretty surreal.