Brookport, Ill is about 45 min north of me. We got all the same warnings but nothing more than a little wind and rain. A woman my mother in law works with came home after the storm and her house was gone. Not messed up, destroyed or damaged, but gone.
We had heavy storms, hail, and some nasty winds as well. The tarp blew off my patio set! Tornado sirens went off twice but nothing was reported to have touched down in our immediate area. All present and accounted for in the Fox clan.
^the winter pool cover blew off twice. after the first time, we were literally walking back into the house and it flew off again. We tied water filled jugs to the wire to hold the cover down...to prevent the lift effect on the one side and it seems to be working.
The storm itself wasn't too bad here, I don't think there were any tornadoes in Michigan. But the ensuing winds have caused a lot of power outages. Statewide I think we're around 650,000 customers out, which works out to probably around 1.5 - 2 million people.
Yeah, it was def short n sassy for my lil area of MI. When the squall line blew in, it gave an entertaining reprieve from the Lions-Steelers game at least.
drove past washington IL where the tornado went through. saw the path across the highway it took. took out almost a dozan of the brand new high tension power poles...literally I saw them installing them last week on my way to the same place. THe farmhouse and barn that where on the east side of the highway were gone....concrete slab was all that was left of the house the barn was a pile of rubble