Please pray for those hit by the EF-2 (at times EF-3) tornado that ripped through or county on Friday night. Two people were killed and hundreds others were left with destroyed or severely damaged homes. The tornado traveled 20 miles across the entire width of Madison County.

The path of the tornado also cut across property that I own. I lost a lot of my woods, but, thankfully, the wife and I hadn't started to build on the land. The neighbor nearest us (our land, that is) had just completed a house not more than 300 yards from the path of the storm and emerged unscathed. Everything else around us had lots of damage. Just amazing how a tornado will demolish one thing and not bother another!

I can literally trace the path of the tornado across my land where the grass is matted down. Completely weird. Of course, any tree in it's wake was uprooted or mangled terribly. Nature's wrath is both wondrous and horribly frightening.