Muscatine

It seems to be taking awhile to come up with an excuse for the siren silence. I bet it's Bush's fault.

Well, at  least it's not just my hearing. 

It's hard for me to fathom that in the past few years, when the sirens have been used to warn us of severe storms as well as tornadoes that they weren't sounded in this case.  Even if there was no tornado, this certainly qualifed as a severe storm long before it hit here.  The video online that shows the view from Miracle Car Wash looking to the north certainly would indicate that it was indeed a tornado. 

..."Hopkins said he spent the afternoon “fielding one phone call after another,” mostly from residents wondering why the storm sirens had not sounded. He said he agreed with Shook that sounding the sirens once the storm had passed through town would not have been helpful".

“I think the winds that came through here were straight-line winds,” he said. “We’ve got crews out working feverishly, and I’d ask residents not to panic.”

I think I saw those "straight line" winds.  Some of them were vertical.