Take a look at this picture. This event occurred about 50 or so miles east of Amarillo on Monday.

I couldn’t see it. Man, I wish I could have laid eyes on this sight.

It’s a tornado that tore through parts of Gray and Roberts counties. It brought a good bit of destruction.

What it didn’t bring was nothing short of miraculous! It didn’t result in human death or injury.

Weather forecasters that afternoon and early evening did a marvelous job of warning residents of the area of what was coming their way. They battened down their homes the best they could. I presume some of them got the heck out of Dodge. Some of them came home to find, well, no home.

But this is one of the enduring images of that frightful evening.

I join my Texas Panhandle neighbors in expressing gratitude that no one was hurt and in thanking the weather forecasters for keeping them informed.

I wish, though, I could have seen that spectacular sight in real time.