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https://twitter.com/NWSLincolnIL/status/1300857274706006021?s=2 This rain is very welcome here! The dry weather has caused a lot of the trees here to start dropping leaves.

This was a memorable storm for me for sure! When that PDS severe watch got issued, I threw all my gear in my car and headed up to the Oglesby, IL area. I pointed my car into the wind as it approached and enjoyed the show. The area took some serious damage and I encountered several roads blocked by downed trees and flipped semis on my way out. Unfortunately I bumped my dash cam into autofocus at some point so I ended up getting 50GB of macro footage of raindrops on my windshield.

August is the only time I'll welcome relatively cool and drizzly weather. It's been like this for days now and it's great.

CRAZY tornado in Minnesota yesterday! This is some of the most ridiculous tornado footage I've ever seen.

I got missed by most of the rain yesterday and didn't even see a single flash of lightning clouds looked cool though at least. I can at least agree that 2020 has lacked lightning for my local area. That being said the last week of September 2019 brought me a couple of the most violent lightning storms I have ever witnessed, so not all hope is lost for me yet

Some nice towers going up here as well. If anything pops up close enough I'll take a drive to enjoy some lightning at least.

For what it's worth, the Spanish flu actually mutated to become much more deadly than what it was at the beginning of the pandemic. It did go on to become less deadly after that though, in some part due to the more severe strains killing people faster than it could spread. With the new coronavirus, there really isn't a driving force to cause the virus to become weaker in time. Incubation period is about 5 days, and for those who die, average time from symptoms to death is about 18 days. This means that people that have contracted a fatal case can still spend more than a week going about their daily activities, spreading the virus. With the Spanish flu, some people were dying the same day they showed their first symptoms, and this type of presentation limited spread. The coronavirus is a slow bake without a mechanism like this to favor weaker strains. I don't expect this virus to start killing young people in numbers like the Spanish flu. I am concerned, however, about the potential long term effects of the virus (lung/heart/nerve damage) or even autoimmune issues. I'm fairly young, but I'm avoiding this virus like the plague.