I just saw two of them from my office window, maybe three quarters to a mile and a half away. Fascinating. They were quite small, not the city-destroying kind. They were like tentacles coming down out of the cloud (the really dark cloud), feeling around, then withdrawing. One of them found something: suddenly a stream of debris came rushing up the funnel, then spread out into the air at some altitude and got blown around some more. Roofing material, I think. In one of my next lives I'll be a storm chaser and be killed when I venture too close to a big one.
UPDATE: NOT SO COOL: Just got a call from my wife, who had just gotten a call from my daughter, who was driving in the area where the debris-sucking touchdown happened, who reports that the debris source seems to have been a WalMart not far from here (my distance estimate was pretty accurate), and there are ambulances in the area.
She says that chasing tornadoes is not a good idea. Running away is a much better idea.
Further Update: only a small number of minor injuries. That's cool.
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