CheeselandSkies
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Of course the anniversary already passed 10 days ago, but I wasn't sure where else to put this.
May 21, 2024 (Greenfield day) was my last chase to date in my 2009 Toyota Corolla. Just a few days later, my wife and I bought a 2023 Highlander. Because she doesn't currently work, I've been driving that most of the time and only use the Corolla when she needs the Highlander to run errands or go to appointments while I'm at work. Therefore, today was the first oil change I've done on that car since then, and a year later I found myself pulling a whole lot of twigs out of the undercarriage from all the debris I ran over on the way home from that chase. After missing the southwest Iowa tornado show (having targeted further east thinking the storms would be more discrete there, which they were but never could really take off), threading the needle between all the remaining storms and having mostly fair weather for the majority of the drive home (unusual), as I got within a few miles of home I began to encounter multiple roads blocked by downed trees and power lines, as a separate round of storms had caused one of the more widespread/significant damaging wind events in recent memory for the Madison area.
May 21, 2024 (Greenfield day) was my last chase to date in my 2009 Toyota Corolla. Just a few days later, my wife and I bought a 2023 Highlander. Because she doesn't currently work, I've been driving that most of the time and only use the Corolla when she needs the Highlander to run errands or go to appointments while I'm at work. Therefore, today was the first oil change I've done on that car since then, and a year later I found myself pulling a whole lot of twigs out of the undercarriage from all the debris I ran over on the way home from that chase. After missing the southwest Iowa tornado show (having targeted further east thinking the storms would be more discrete there, which they were but never could really take off), threading the needle between all the remaining storms and having mostly fair weather for the majority of the drive home (unusual), as I got within a few miles of home I began to encounter multiple roads blocked by downed trees and power lines, as a separate round of storms had caused one of the more widespread/significant damaging wind events in recent memory for the Madison area.
