I think Nature is female and changes her mind frequently. Saturday was tornadoes and today is a blizzard, she just can't make up her mind.

A local meterologist is also a helicopter pilot and photographed the path left by the tornado.
[url=http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cases/051112/iowahelicopter_survey/Minburn_Radcliffe/:96652]http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/cases/051112/iowahelicopter_survey/Minburn_Radcliffe/[/url:96652]

The ones labled with Ames and Gilbert are the ones taken near me. The one labeled "gilbert looking ne" was taken just across the road from my house (and above). My favorite is "north from ames", it shows where the twister got larger as it approached the south east corner (my place) of Gilbert. The rest of the images show some damage, and the path it took through the fields.