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Hey that looks like my ex's house. Can't remember exactly where it was but a couple blocks south of 23rd, in some cul-de-sac type neighborhood with modern houses, (as opposed to the many Victorians etc. in East Lawrence) and I think it was east of Haskell College. But in that kind of neighborhood, a lot of the houses look alike. But his really did look exactly like that. Edited to add: Well not like THAT. Like the "Before" picture of that.

Late to the party tonight. From what I hear locally, it did a little damage at Highway 7 and Nettleton? or something like that? in Bonner Springs but not a ton, and it uprooted a tree and severely mangled a highway sign on I-70. TV meteorologists were screaming their heads off about I-70 because they knew there would be cars on it that weren't paying attention. Someone who lives near the tollbooth on I-70 posted that they heard it at their house and "It sounded like a freight train" (TM) My parents' old church friends from Linwood and Bonner have been reporting in safe and unharmed from Linwood and Bonner. So far. Tomorrow I'm going to call their old church (They live in Cincinnati now...that's another story) I am going to find out if any of the people from their church 16 years ago, who helped them in 2003, were hit tonight, and I'll go help them. Back story: This one took a very similar track to May 4, 2003. From what I understand that one originated perhaps in Linwood, then hit the "Legends area," which was just beginning to be built, jumped the river and hit Parkville, hit a neighborhood in north Kansas City, then hit Liberty. This one's track was very similar! Forgot to say: the May 4, 2003 one hit my parents' house just east of the Legends area. (Where the racetrack is now)

TV weatherman is saying they probably had a touchdown around Lake Lafayette southeast of KC, as Pbrussell indicated.

I am in a Residence Inn full of families with kids and I poked my head out of my room and of course no one in the hallway was remotely aware there was anything such as tornado warning going on. I just asked if their tv signal went out and they were like "we aren't watching TV" so I said there was a tornado warning but it was for south of here. They were eminently nonchalant

Hi from KC I'm northwest of that area on that squall line but just as the tornado warning went out my tv reception went out. it's back on now and they say so far they haven't heard of any damage. I watched 41 Action News on Facebook...they are live Edited to add: reports of trees down in Cass County

Saw a segment on the local news showing the "devastation along Capitol Street" in St. Joseph, and although it didn't look all that devastated to me, compared to the F4 of 2003 I was just describing, this can help pinpoint where buildings near the river (northeast end of tornado path) were damaged. Here is the segment: https://www.kctv5.com/news/ Click on "Historic Buildings in Jefferson City Sustain Serious Damage" What they show is not bad compared to some Facebook pics linked below in this message. But people may be wondering which of the historic buildings east of the Capitol may have been damaged. I have been wondering about the Amtrak station myself, but the Amtrak wasn't running anyway this week due to flooding. Long story short, everywhere is flooded and they needed the tracks for re-routed freight trains, so even though those tracks aren't flooded, they are in very heavy use by extra freight trains, so the Amtrak isn't running. Anyway, here's the funeral home and apartment building they are talking about on the TV segment. Apartment building had windows knocked out. https://goo.gl/maps/c6PJJiChWJgCoT3b9 And here's the apartment complex that got some of the worst of it: https://goo.gl/maps/vLyY9Dmo7VuBWfZN6 Here's the Sonic that got some of the worst worst of it: https://goo.gl/maps/tP5YSv1vrxbND9879 This Best Western reportedly had people trapped in rubble: https://goo.gl/maps/bxgXCi7ANW4FKzAA8 These must be the car dealerships that got the worst worst of it: https://goo.gl/maps/bxgXCi7ANW4FKzAA8 This dog-grooming place, Shed, Bath, and Beyond, must not have sustained much damage, as they post that they will be open tomorrow. https://goo.gl/maps/duw2uZa4N6CabpZa6 However, they shared some photos of damage very near them on their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Shed-Bath-Beyond-Grooming-103977196301985/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARAiEHRBGhOx4tCtixu5Rzeoe9pWUVJDxraiCWzCWlx7xIVWn7uB60l2euIYyDxZHQIZz-0KoyIDjI4V&hc_ref=ARQdxAR8_1oJtlQHL-x6clrwFb5PgM2aoTEHDfCorzwUKhqZsstJSiZvBHTvriYJIy8&__xts__[0]=68.ARB3dub861BVKnHA1BFPmAIJIk8iWZABebHc7FB19T77xMzJUPe5oCoze5zo5pishkzrTy937ovg3AXm7veVXagwTwuuduxvClDJ6IMUaj1zn2HcrKoazeyWxXbWSybBLT4zI8BOKZ7xRX2u8HxLrwsL6XjcyybQsJbvYhmRkJNKUOKAgg4oIN2_xKh7T7FS44Zu-8t4iX7eth2Soqfmhv2fwd1CINtmGslC-GQgrrQkEtih38ZN7Tsih2XbthS3VeoF7A4syowYROzPnXYD7Xmn_OjH8kuDjy9yWnQg0bcpH7146T5qdOochrFTeEJKJ8QlzhAX-aDL6UwgTo4jco-VXGHjZu-YkyVFb5KEfHYQyC28fqDU4wldQI6LKAL0cq-6UNs3gKTFkQ3KZ7-n0JpE1zx5CIvThIk4D0dL6eX1o9xr6uPe1e2IghliS9VSLjx1JTPL-u8XUwaUy9Jnh-TxwgejCZ3MofMOqiMDeZN8d1HRi7EvYQ Edited to add: Someone has put Google Map links in the comments on all those photos that Shed, Bath, and Beyond posted on Facebook.

Yes, they lived in an over-55 community that had been built in 2000-2001 off 99th between Parallel and Leavenworth Roads. They had a hipped roof, which did not come off, but the house across 100th street to the east of theirs was completely gone except the floor and I think the refrigerator. This hipped roof did not come off: https://goo.gl/maps/fAXJVnFBTGxHsPtS9 This house was completely gone except for the refrigerator, to the best of my memory: https://goo.gl/maps/jNJzyv27oGj6w2pX8 This sign (I think it may have been stone, but can't remember) was torn apart brick by brick or maybe it was stone by stone: https://goo.gl/maps/oe52viDhgr8AFXyNA My mother's bedroom had a sharp piece of barn wood embedded in the interior wall at head height. Two by fours came through the roof and another exterior wall in that same bedroom, the northwest one. My dad's room, the northeast one, wasn't touched in the least. The other houses on either side had roofs and walls come off and furniture exposed. This house, I believe it was, https://goo.gl/maps/RtGmcC4qdcg5sskL7 had a beam in the garage come down on top of the car in the garage and smash the car in the garage. But no one in this neighborhood was killed. They all had basements. It intensified to F4 a little bit northeast and an older man was killed and his Purple Heart was found in the rubble. His last name was Darey. His son had called him and told him to get in the crawl space, but Mr. Darey said he didn't think he could get in the crawl space, and got int the bathtub instead. It wasn't enough. They did have gas lines severed and gas hissing. The police made everyone leave whether their house was habitable or not. FEMA was there the next day and came around inspecting houses declaring them habitable or not. They gave everyone tetanus shots and set up a hot dog stand. My parents' house was declared habitable, but my Dad breathed that Pink Panther insulation by vacuuming it without a mask. He got sick from that. Also, he got cut in the basement looking out the basement window at the tornado saying "I don't think it's coming this way." I came the next morning and my Dad had to meet me at the perimeter to prove I belonged there to be allowed in. Others were cleaning up other stuff but I cleaned up little pieces of roof asphalt and other sharp objects that were embedded in the yard, so that their lawn-mowing service could mow their lawn without throwing sharp stuff around. I kept finding little pieces of glass in the stranges places, such as on top of their washer-dryer unit in a closet that had been thought untouched. This is WAY off the subject, but to replace items, I took my mother to Topeka, which still has an 80's-style mall. We were able to replace and match much of her stuff like decorative chickens (don't ask) in Topeka. She lost one half of a set of decorative chickens that I had gotten in trouble for using Comet on when I was a kid. I said "I guarantee you we will find a matching CHICKEN in Topeka." And we did. There was a large Bible bookstore in Topeka and that's where we found the chicken. Sorry so off topic but I learned a lot about insurance during the aftermath. I will only say one more thing: When it comes to insurance, you basically get one disaster because they KNOW you had a bona fide disaster. If you keep having fires and stuff they start to wonder about you. But if you have a disaster like this, they know you had a disaster so claim everything. They won't raise your rates because you had a tornado. They will come and get the damaged furniture that you are claiming, and sell it to a discount outfit. My mother was able to work with them to buy back some of the damaged, claimed furniture and they didn't quibble. The other thing I learned was that the insurance paid the re-builder in three large installments. I was worried how they would pay their re-builder up front or whether they would have to. The other thing I learned was don't get in a dispute with your insurance company or your contractor. A house across the street got in a dispute with their contractor and their house sat un-rebuilt for months. My parents' house was finished in six months. They had to move to a motel when the walls and carpet were re-done. After that, when they refinanced, the house was considered "new" at the rebuilding point.

OK thanks--didn't know!

I've been painstakingly going down High and Capital Streets on Google Street View at the places Hubs and I frequent or walk past when we visit there, and then looking up these establishments' Facebook pages to see if they have posted today. I can happily report that the Antiquarium comic book shop, though not very sturdy-looking, is still standing, as the proprietor said, being one of the luckier buildings on his block. https://goo.gl/maps/Pt5y3ZmK1qR1hnA77 I've checked on several churches in the area, and to my actual surprise, the small Temple Beth-El is OK. https://goo.gl/maps/dxp3ki6eVTBfyUEe7 This furniture store, however, sustained heavy damage. I saw it in an aerial video. https://goo.gl/maps/atNCoDN1TMaYJidV6 Spectator's, one of the most popular bars in the area, wasn't damaged I guess, as they have posted they are fine and open for business:https://goo.gl/maps/3aQEfYrBhKK1H2L97

PBRussell, I recognized your avatar immediately. May 4, 2003. The northernmost one is the one that hit my parents' house.

La Plata, Maryland had an F5 in 2002 and some people didn't even know what it was.

Any chance it hit Hermann after it left Jeff City? Hermann's two webcams are out, so I assume their power is out. One is a river cam on the bridge https://cm.water.usgs.gov/data/webcams/hermann.html

We always stay at the Baymont (cheap) I wonder if it got hit? Wonder how wide the path was?

I wonder if the prison (for those who may not know, no longer in use....just gives tours) got hit. I also wonder if Prison Brews got hit.

That Tweet with the pic of the Jeff City Capitol dome...no that's not damage. It was already like that. It has been being worked on and is wrapped in some kind of Tyvek or something.