Peru and LaSalle are two Illinois towns that share a common street. We are on the Illinois River which runs east and west right here. This tornado followed the river for a while and that might be why it missed us. But I think it may have dropped all that sucked up water right on us. Our windows never were so clean. I just heard that a friend watched it go by as he stood in his doorway in the town of LaSalle. Carol and I used to walk the six miles from LaSalle to Utica, IL----down the towpath of the Illinois-Michigan Canal. That town was hit pretty hard but details are sketchy. They're working on getting injured folks out of collapsed buildings I've heard.

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