So we just had what is at least the storm of the decade so far. I was driving in it for a bit on my way home, the wind gusts actually were shaking my car, visibility was basically 0, and I had to pull over. As I was waiting for the storm to clear, which took about 15 minutes, it got worse. Tree limbs blew by me and pea-sized hail began to fall.
So I get home, there's a tree limb blocking my parking lot and tree branches scattered everywhere around my apartment. My storm door (which has never latched and always blows around during high winds) had someone been blown in such a way that it was stuck opened. And I had no electricity.
But that's not the worst of it by far. Our building is fine and I got power back around 9:30. But just 500 feet away from my apartment, another apartment building had its roof completely blown off by what may have been, but isn't yet confirmed as, a small tornado. What's left of the building still don't have power, possibly because the service drop for it has blown off into another zip code.
I found insulation from that roof 400 feet away. One of my friends had a top-level apartment and most of his stuff is damaged beyond repair. Parts of the roof fell onto cars in the parking lot and hit the building behind it, damaging its roof. which means everyone from both buildings is currently being made to find somewhere else to stay.
Thankfully no one was hurt physically. The fact that all the surrounding buildings including mine are okay just shows how random nature can be. Or how shoddy that building's roof job was,. take your pick. .
