The Shell station on Bardstown Road near the Gardiner Lane shopping center remained open despite the giant billboard crashing in to the pump area during the storm on Saturday, August 13.

I find it perhaps a little ironic that Mother Nature took out a billboard prompting people to fight against the EPA in order to keep coal jobs in tact.

The steel support posts of the billboard  were twisted and bent.

A friend of mine, who takes some classes at Indiana University Southeast, got a funny voicemail and email from the school during yesterday afternoon's tornado warning. Most of the alert was fine, informing students to "take cover immediately on the lowest level of your building away from windows!" (Yeah, without that exclamation point I wouldn't have taken it seriously either.) As for the end of the automated message, well:

"If you cannot reach a building, seek shelter immediately in a ditch or ravine. Please remain calm. Thank you."