it hayappeared to be two tornadoes. the one from fairdale that was the one that started off like a small tornado innocently enough and then it grew in size and became a stove pipe what you're looking at there. and then it actually turned into almost like a quarter mile to a half mile wedge tornado. i was looking at the maps of the populations of northern illinois just to see how fortunate or unfortunate we were. it was strong and on the ground for 30 or 40 miles. there was one fatality. this one over mostly rural areas. all big cities were avoided. where our crews are this morning, it's in fairdale. that is literally a small town. it has 3 main roads that go north to south and about two or three roads that go east to west. this is the fairdale area. there's probably only about 20 or 30 structures in the town and they're saying almost none of them exist anymore. you can see the pictures there. this small town community surrounded by farms with a main street. this is all that's left of it. there's hardly anything. our hea