Colorado gets its share of extreme weather, but the tornado episode yesterday in Windsor Colorado was pretty bad. My deepest sympathy to those affected, including the family of the person who was killed. My own daughter was at work in Ft Collins, less than 10 miles from where it happened, and she said the whole building shook, the lights were swinging, and it was very scary. She is filling in for someone who is on pregnancy leave for the summer, and the girl she filled in for had the windows blown out of her house. Thankfully she and the baby were ok.
Colorado Springs does not typically get tornadoes (neither does Ft Collins for that matter), because we are pretty close to the mountains, and they tend to form further onto the eastern plains. Hail, lightening, thunder, big winds yes, but not tornadoes. In 17 years of living here, we have not had one in the city yet that I can recall, although there have been some out east. It has been a cool and breezy last couple of days, but Memorial Day weekend is expected to be very nice.
I made a couple of changes to the blog that I hope you find useful. You can now subscribe by email, so that if you prefer email as an access method it is there (you have always been able to use the RSS feed). The other change is that we eliminated the Snapshots preview. This was a harder decision, but my own testing of the site seemed to indicate it could be annoying almost as often as it was helpful. If you have an opinion you'd like to share on that one, I'd love to hear from you!