I'm going to go short on the dialogue and more on the photos this time. I went to
Bloomington, Indiana to present EAGLE
(our mainframe-to-Web software) at
WebDevShare, a national conference
geared towards educational institutions who are delivering services via the Web.
Alan, my co-presenter, and I went up a day early due to hotel issues, and used the
opportunity to take in a Colts game (thanks for nothing to Ticketmaster who totally screwed me
by tricking me into buying the preseason tickets then making it impossible for me to fix my
mistake). We drove past the Speedway, short diversion past my
old house in Chapel Hill, saw the game, and headed
down to Bloomington (about a 40-mile drive).
On the way down I started to see the unmistakable signs of a recent tornado. (Alan was
startled to learn that we were in the periphery of Tornado Alley.) Later we learned that
a series of tornadoes
had traveled from the very southwest corner of Indiana almost to the
middle-eastern edge of the state-- a distance of over 90 miles!
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Incredibly, wonderfully, no one was
killed, or even seriously injured.
(More damage photos from the National Weather Service site)
The damage was still visible in the latter photos below, taken three weeks after the tornadoes
struck. Acres of corn were flattened as if by a roller; adjacent fields stood untouched.
Rows of trees were blown leafless or snapped in half-- in some cases, only half the tree
was damaged.
IMU has a beautiful campus and wonderful people; the presentation went swimmingly, the
weather was excellent and we ate downtown at a couple of excellent restaurants.
We didn't manage to get to Skyline Chili or Noble Roman's, but I just see that as
a motivation to come back again. :)
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