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Fortunately Tung Yin and his family are unharmed by the tornado that ripped through Iowa City.

I don't know which is worse--hurricane warnings days in advance, most of which are false alarms, or tornado warnings, which happen when the twister is already near your house.

Most of my students and I headed to Dairy Queen to celebrate our victory.  Little did I know that four hours later, my wife and baby and I would be down in our basement, listening to the radio report about a tornado touching down in southwest Iowa City, heading east (i.e., toward us). . . .

Apparently, much of downtown Iowa City is a mess right now, exacerbated by people who are inexplicably driving out to take a look at how much damage there is!

UPDATE: Oh my gosh, that Dairy Queen has been destroyed!!!

Then again, hurricanes sometimes spawn mini-tornadoes. And we don't have basements.