There was a Tornado/Storm that hit Wisconsin:
It's funny because I used to manage Global Chat Rooms online back in the 1990s. When you run your own Chat Place, you're pretty much like God. You're able to control all the "atmospheres." All you do is edit the software program. The Planet Earth works just like Chat Program. You start from scratch and build all the rooms that are like regions on the Planet or world that you create. After that, you sit around and create all the objects that are placed on that world. The next step is just edit the parameters and set the weather controls :).
I remember my mom getting mad at me when I was in college because I spent all my time online working on those Chat Programs. I remember her saying in an irritated voice, "Why are you working on those things? How is that going to ever be useful in your life or career?" If only she knew :).
One Dead as Tornado, Storms Pound Wisconsin
By TODD RICHMOND, AP
STOUGHTON, Wis. (Aug. 19) - A tornado killed one person and damaged dozens of homes as it roared through this southern Wisconsin city late Thursday.
Lightning streaks across Wind Point Lighthouse on Lake Michigan as severe storms hit southeastern Wisconsin.
At least eight other people were hospitalized as the severe storms blasted their way across the central and southern parts of the state, authorities said.
"The sky just exploded. It was debris everywhere," said David Murray, 43, who captured the Stoughton tornado on his camera phone. "When it went across the road and it hit all the houses over there ... it was something you can't explain. It just exploded."
State Emergency Management spokeswoman Lori Getter said one person died in the tornado and five others were hospitalized; she had no further information about the victims. The tornado destroyed 15 homes, and 35 others had moderate to severe damage, she said.
The storms also damaged homes in Viola, about 70 miles northwest of Madison. Getter said three people there were treated for injuries and about 70 to 80 homes were damaged.
"There's houses half gone. All the trees in town are gone," said Bill Bender, owner of the Viola Quick Stop. "There was stuff flying by the building, like big chunks."
Storm debris traveled eastward in clouds, depositing papers, shingles and other materials in the Milwaukee area, some 60 miles from Stoughton.
Murray described seeing a smashed truck upside down in the middle of a wrecked house, and debris, including an engine block, strewn across the nearby Stoughton Country Club.
As the storm approached, golfers had started coming off the course, and about 40 people huddled in the club's basement and waited, said the club's executive chef, Lenny Peaslee.
The storm peeled the roof back like the lid of a box, he said.
"We heard the rumble, rumble, then crash, boom, bang," Peaslee said. "Insulation as far you can see. It nailed us ... the course is pretty much a mess. There's trees down everywhere you look."
08-19-05 00:53 EDT
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