So it turns out that the storms in northern Texas really took off. As I write this, there have been 5 tornado warned cells, and a fair few touchdowns. Unfortunately it also looks like there has been some damage too, hopefully no-one has been hurt and everyone managed to find shelter.
It is a bit of a shame we were just a bit too far away to catch the storms, but we were nowhere near ready. We discovered this today when we found that our gear wasn’t working properly, including being without GPS all day due to both laptops being on the blink (otherwise know as Windows 7).
As I mentioned this morning, we headed in the opposite direction to today’s action. We’ve decided to spend the night in Chadron in northern Nebraska, after a good 5 hours driving through some gorgeous high plains scenery. Chadron is a delightful, if very quiet place. It gets brownie points for having ‘hadron’ in the name, which makes my inner physicist very happy, and for feeding me a deliciously dirty hamburger, of the like you just cannot find in the UK.
The highlight of the journey was Carhenge, a bewildering monument to the automobile. Other than being made of cars (obviously), it is a pretty faithful recreation of stonehenge and makes me feel that maybe Nebraska and little old England are not so different.
I could get used to Nebraska.
Cars: stones are, like, soo 2012 BC
Someone really likes cars
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