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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Tornadoes!
So there’s this legend that tornadoes will never hit Lincoln. There are a few versions of it — one attributes this to the bishop (we’re the seat of the diocese), one to Bob Devaney, and the more sensible ones to geography. I’m beginning to think that they’re all horse hockey.
The sirens went off [...]
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
From the storm-battered Plains
I grew up in western Nebraska, where summer storms whip themselves up to ferocious proportions over relatively flat expanses of land. I’ve probably spent time totaling two entire summers huddled in the basement watching the Weather Channel as tornadoes ripped through our county. Compared to some of the stuff I’ve seen out west, Lincoln’s [...]
