I've been watching the local Wichita news and have seen the pictures out of Chapman. It really looks like Greensberg did when it got hit. Total devastation. It's good that so many people came up to help, too, and from what I hear they are having to turn people away who want to volunteer due to not enough facilities for those volunteers.

I was driving home two nights ago and into a large, grey-green dark black cloud with lots of lightning. I had to stay in my car when I got home because of inch size hail falling. When I finally made a run for it, I went inside and turned on the news. They said that a small tornado had touched down not far from my house. I was certainly on the lookout for it, and didn't see anything. There was no damage, so it could have been a false alarm.

So, yes, tornadoes are frequent in KS and OK, but mainly they occur out in the middle of nowhere. It's only when they hit a town that it is really bad.

Charles