More On Inland Hurricane

Like most people in Southern Illinois last Friday I was gearing up for graduation weekend at SIU. As it turned out Mother Nature would have much different plans for all of us. Sustained hurricane strength winds, combined with torrential rainfall left widespread damage throughout Egypt early Friday afternoon. The disaster filled weekend has yet to end. As I type this I'm still without power but have been graciously loaned a generator to get through the next couple days. The blog will be slowly returning to normal; in the meantime, however, I want to follow up a bit on what exactly hit Southern Illinois on Friday.

Here's a story from a local newspaper whose town just missed out on all the fun by a matter of miles.

Here's the National Weather Services rundown.

Check out this .gif image where you can actually see the storm has an eye comparable to that of a real hurricane.

Here's a jpeg radar image of the same thing.

Very, very odd considering we are a thousand miles from any ocean. It has been quite the weekend actually. Exhausting actually.