Earlier this summer, a tornado hit my hometown, producing quite a bit of damage on the city’s south side. That also happens to be where my parents still live.
Fortunately, they were largely spared. While many of their neighbors suffered structural damage, their home somehow emerged unscathed. What didn’t make it through the storm OK, however, was their backyard.It had been a nice, treed area with various paths winding around flower beds and other landscaping, all gradually built up over the two decades my parents have lived in the house. But the tornado destroyed all but a couple of trees. Everything
