My wife left Indiana a few weeks ago to go visit with some of our kids and grand kids who live in New Mexico. Wouldn't you know it, but this past Friday night, an EF2 tornado hit the small town of Clovis, New Mexico - the same exact place that my wife and family members are located!
I was only able to speak with my wife on Friday night, for just a few moments on her cell phone, so you can imagine my anxiety in wanting to find out more about what was going on. We don't have cable television here at "PondRun" so being able to flip around the channels was out of the question.
The Internet saved the day though!
Within just an hour or so after the tornado struck, news stories started popping up on the Lubbock Avalanche Journal Web site. I then started checking the newspaper Web sites for the Albuquerque and Amarillo newspaper sites also. Within another few hours, I found a video on YouTube.com that captured the tornado just before it struck Clovis. A little while later, a friend of mine in Clovis sent me pictures that she had just taken with her digital camera.
By morning, all of the major online news sites such as CNN and FoxNews had articles about the massive destruction that took place in New Mexico.
Almost instantaneous information at our fingertips!
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