Tornado Streams of Consciousness

It's amazing how what you've planned to write can change in a few hours.

For those of you who haven't heard, at least three tornados have hit my fair state of Virginia, specifically, the area where I live. No one had expected these tornadoes to arrive. Like the rest of the Virginians, I was expecting only a little afternoon rain as I left for work at the Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk. And even when it grew dark and began to rain harder, it didn't seem like anything too out of the ordinary.