[onewhippedpuppy]

In KS, you can tell where the tornado goes by the shelter belts. For those that don't know, they're a row of trees planted along a field to shelter it from the wind. Where the tornado passes, there's a big hole in the shelter belt where the trees are mangled/gone. Funny when you can see hole after hole, all in a line.

The stuff they do is absolutely amazing. I went through Hoisington, KS 6 years ago when 50% or so of the town was leveled. Foundation wiped clean, house next door with minor damage. The boards fired through trees and walls is amazing. In Hoisington, they had to remove something like 3 ft. of the topsoil from the football field and truck in new dirt. That's how deep the debris penetrated. Even today, the part of the town that was hit and rebuilt just looks odd. Part of the town has large, mature trees, then suddenly it's barren.

I'm a big geek for this stuff, as a kid my dream job was to be a tornado chaser. Then I realized that the pay is almost non-existent.