Same here on the tornadoes, Rainwalker--my clock radio didn't go off that morning, because some kind of power surge or outage from the line of storms that was moving in that morning from Arkansas (having spawned some tornadoes that had killed people further west during the night) had tripped the ground fault circuit interruptor or taken out the power to the radio while I slept. Later, my grad-school roommate kept telling me that "tornadoes never hit big cities" because cities are usually located in valleys (like Nashville, in the Cumberland River Valley), so tornadoes just kind of skip over them. He held that belief until, oh, about 10 minutes before the first tornado hit. We saw the funnel clouds pass just north of the ratty neighborhood where we impoverished students were living. Suddenly, I felt myself wishing I had a good, solid chopping blade--not having seen a need for one in grad school. Then, with fallen trees all over, priorities were rearranged!