a tornado ate my home town

[campylobacter]

Even a pathogen such as I came from somewhere, or what's left of it.

I'm 2000 miles away from my home town, and I had to weed through noise about Britney's rehab or Anna Nicole's probate to find out the day after it happened. The local newspapers with the most immediate news don't have RSS feeds, which is my preferred choice for receiving current event news.

Enterprise [Alabama] Tornado News (aggregated feeds set up by one of my friends)
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/GlFigXTI2xGFp4rKJZhxuA/

My folks are fine. My high school alma mater and many old stomping grounds, however, are not. Although I don't know any of the 9 people who died, I'm connected through their friends and kin.

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[franthewndrhrse.livejournal.com]

And your own house? Still standing?

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

The old childhood home has been empty since my parents bought another one 20 miles away (in the middle of nowhere), and it only had the typical lawn debris and wind-blown detritus. I'm trying to convince my dad to let a family displaced by the tornado borrow it.

Coincidentally, he was downtown watching the tornado pass by from inside the Alfa office, researching rates for HOME INSURANCE!