Midwestern thunderstorms are pretty serious business. One of the towns I used to live in, Cambridge, OH, (I lived there periodically and erratically)got hit pretty hard with this last storm. The winds alone leveled quite a few buildings. When I was 5, we lived in Cambridge for about a year and one of those sort of storms rolled through, the damage was severe enough for the Coast Guard to spend a week there. Half of the town was under water by the time the storm was finished, including the house I lived in.