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I live in Springfield and was huddled in my basement last night with my family. Luckily I was semi-away from the damage, but I could hear the twister when it got a bit closer than I would have liked. I just moved to springfield from jacksonville in September and personally I find the school's tornado education appalling! In Jacksonville they have a drill about every two weeks in tornado season. They tell you what to pack in a bag to put in your basement. Everyone packs such a bag and throws it in the basement! My sisters' elementary school doesn't do any of that education here! And these idiotic residents of springfield were out and about IN THEIR CARS right in the eye of the storm, which every idiot knows is RIGHT BEFORE THE TORNADO WILL HIT YOU AND DESTROY EVERYTHING!!! grr. Makes me mad! My favorite restraunts have all been blown to pieces, but the mall stands. My basement windows almost blew in on us!

Does anyone know what this twister rated on the Fujita scale? I know its not really a complete tell all scale, but it'd be nice to know so I can freak out the kids in my highschool class with actual numbers. They're scared to death of tornados. Funny, that. While my friends were calling everyone and freaking out, I was sitting on my front porch documenting cloud developement in my notebook and watching channel 17 to track the storm system and predicting its path and all that jazz. Sorry, I'm a tornado freak. Love em! The schools here baffle me though. In Jacksonville, two years ago, a tornado hit the night before the third to last day of school. We were in school the next morning for the awards ceremony. Half the town had damage of some sort, but there we were. Here, some power lines go down and they run around in circles flapping their hands and screaming. My school, Ursuline Academy. No damage. We could be in school studying for our upcoming midterms! But no. We're at home. Not that I don't appreciate the time off, its wonderful. But it just.....baffles me! Well this is the end of my wonderous rant.

Reports indicate that around 10 people in the surrounding area are dead, and people were being airlifted into Memorial Hospital last night. (I live down the road, I watched the medicopters.) Any information, and the radio stations would love for yall to call it in. WTAX.com has pictures!

If yall are religious, pray for the subdivision of Jerome. Some houses are completley DEMOLISHED.

Thanks for yalls time
Tiggy

Welcome aboard the freeper express-

I live in Lincoln, and traveled down your way tonight to see a relative in Memorial hospital. I came in on Clear Lake. The stop lights were out at the intersection of Dirksen and Clear Lake. Dirksen was blocked off to thru traffic. Tornado damage of trees and a few utility poles evident on Clear Lake coming into downtown Spr., mostly near / west of the seafood house.

I too am a tornado buff... I used to have the most intense vivid dreams involving tornadoes... until I chased one or two... then the dreams stopped. I must have satisfied some internal need... {:0) Springfield dodged a bullet, in a sense. Yes there was damage, but it could have been magnitudes worse. One man was reported missing, from a home that was completely destroyed by the tornado. Any updates?