Hugo Tornado May 25th 2008

On memorial Day weekend Hugo MN was hit with a EF3 tornado at about 5:01PM on Sunday May 25Th. Stew and I came back to a pretty sad day in Hugo. So of course with us being residents of Hugo we wanted to go look at all the damage when we got home. So we went on a walk and looked at all the damage. It was pretty sad for what we could see so early after the storm. Many people lost a lot of memories and stuff that they worked hard for all their life. A life was also lost that night too. A little boy named Nathaniel Prindle he was 2 years old. The tornado probably took about 2 minutes to go throw Hugo and destroy everything in its path. It is so sad to think that something can just come out of the blue and take it all away. Well last night we went back there again and drove around and it actually is starting to look like a neighborhood again. People are outside playing with their kids, planting flowers, mowing their grass. Neighbors were out having a BBQ with other neighbors. Houses that were leveled were already being re-built and houses that were damaged are being fixed. That made me feel very good about how these people are dealing with this total loss. My neighborhood was hit by the tornado but the damage was not that bad. We got very lucky on this one. But I know that if our house was directly hit by the tornado people would have been there to help us pick up and move on. Hugo is a great community to live in and there are a lot of good people here! I am happy to be a resident of such a great community!!