STORM

Well, I've survived my first real Kansas storm. Allow me to elaborate.
This morning, I woke up at 8 to take my shower and get ready for church. I was somewhat lazy and slow, which turned out to be a good thing. I looked out the window and noticed that it was pretty darn windy. The sky looked pretty funky, also. I closed my window, and jumped in the shower. As soon as I turned on the water, the power went out. I dried myself off quickly and looked out the window. It sounded like a hurricane was blowing perfectly perpendicular to our building, straight into the windows. My ears went crazy because of the extreme pressure flucuations. The wind was blasting through the seams of the window, and I was getting a little nervous. "Alrighty...the gust should be dying down now..." I thought. But nope, it just kept getting louder. Then the tornado sirens went off. I was still in my towel. I quickly threw on a tshirt and jeans and my sandals and ran into the hall to find Shmuel running down the hall pounding on doors. He confirmed the tornado, and I helped him knock on doors. Half-dressed and half-awake, the residents of Templin stumbled down the stairs. We hung out for probably 20 or 30 minutes, and then went to see if we still had rooms.
Everything on our floor was fine. Then we looked out our windows.
A list of the damages on campus is as follows:
-several broken car windows
-Air-conditioning unit blown OFF OF THE ROOF
-Three totaled cars
-hundreds of downed trees (some two or three feet thick were snapped in half)
-The "K" on the "KU" flag on top of Fraser is missing
-Tar paper and roofing tiles from Fraser, Marvin, Murphy, Snow, Budig, Dyche, The Union, Danforth, Robinson, Stauffer-Flint and probably many more
-downed power lines
-shingle damage
and probably many more I haven't even heard about.
Stefan and I went out to look around campus at around 11:00am (now the news guys are telling everyone "not to sightsee"). We took pieces of roofing tiles from Dyche (the natural history museum), Stauffer-Flint(the journalism building) and several others as souvenirs. We came back to Templin, dropped off our tiles, and went to eat at Mrs. E's. Afterwards, I came back to my room to watch the news, when I saw the next storm. Thankfully it missed us, but we had to go back to the basement for another 20 minutes or so. Hopefully it's all over now. They might cancel class for tomorrow, but we won't know until 8:00pm tonight.
All the pictures of this will be up on my photobucket account. The link is right here.
And such has been my very exciting day!