This thing had it out for the Carman clan, apparently. Betsey & Todd live in Greeley which got hit, by another tornado, Mom & Dad and Misty and I live in Johnstown (imagine another dot to the immediate left of Milliken) where the big one headed after touching down in Gilcrest, and Lindsay and Matt live in Wellington, where it finally ended up.
Map:
http://photos.denverpost.com/photoproje
We lost power for about 19 hours. No property damage.
My sister Betsey and brother-in-law and nieces got lucky too. The Greeley tornado blew in the windows on their house, glass *everywhere*, but no other structural damage. It touched down just on the other side of the highway near their back yard, however. An entire row of 12 or so telephone poles were snapped in half about 200 yards from the house, and a farm just beyond was completely destroyed. Other buildings a quarter of a mile away or so had their roofs ripped off.
Colorado's agriculture is largely dependent on irrigation, so there's lots of those circular irrigation pipe systems out here. You're all Kansas boys, so I know you know what they look like. Now imagine them twisted up like pretzels, lying in the fields all over the place, wheels in the air like dead bugs.
http://origin.denverpost.com/news/ci_93
http://cbs4denver.com/slideshows/Weld.C
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2
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