Last Night's Tornado

I'm sure that by now everyone reading this knows that there was a pretty severe storm that rolled through the central area of Kansas last night and that the storm eventually created a tornado that completely ravaged Chapman and parts of Manhattan. Since a lot of people from out of town seem to be curious about what happened around here, Kansas State University has put up this collection of some of the damage on and around campus. Below are a few of the more severe ones (click to enlarge).




Since the campus was obviously in no state to operate today (current estimates put the repairs at somewhere around twenty million dollars) and many of the businesses around town were either in a similar state or had no power, a lot of people decided to go around town to check out the damage and take pictures, so thanks to Eric Janzen, Chris Conrow, and Mason Riphahn for taking all of the photos below.







A few of the businesses over on Seth Childs got hid pretty hard as well. Here's the Toyota delearship:




And, probably the worst damage in all of Manhattan, here's where True Value used to stand: