neil:we are told the tornadoes were in a cluster, there would be many simultaneously and there didn t seem to be warning for that, do you know whether residents had much time to respond or particularly the cluster activity, something far more involved than experts thought? the tornado formed in my hometown, where the major devastation occurred was going on all night. i heard residents heard the tornado alarm but in mayfield and central kentucky where most of the damage occurred, if in fact they got any prior warning from their alert. i don t know everything, i just don t know for sure if those horn sounded in time. neil:talking about the weather,
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mimi artist joins us on the phone, the wist of the mayor. thanks so much for being with us. your mother actually lives in washington, illinois and survived the storm. but i understand there were some very anxious moments. tell us about them. well, we heard about we were, my husband and son and i were doing a class yesterday and we were in the basement of a building and heard the tornado alarm go off on a couple cell phones. and didn t really think anything about it, and then my brother we went to eat lunch and then my brother called from springfield and said his son, my nephew who also lives in washington, that his neighborhood was totally decimated basically. and that he couldn t get ahold of my mom, his grandma. so we thought about it and we re like she s probably fine. the phone lines are going to be down but maybe we should go over there. we ended up driving over there. we had to go a couple different routes to get there because they had the major roads closed. there was just