Whew

Looks like God was considering smiting Robbinsdale tonight.

The drama peaked when visual spotters confirmed a funnel cloud swirling in the sky over the Colonial House Restaurant and the Town and Country Best Western Motel, ironically, a structure badly damaged in Rapid City's last recorded tornado on Father's Day of 1967. This time however, the cloud, referred to in weather watcher parlance as a finger cloud, never touched ground.

I'm glad the area escaped unscathed--all the Thune and Schwiesow groupies in my neighborhood are suffering enough.