--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2003-05-07T10:15:14' draft: false title: Tornado News --- The area reported on [in this newspaper story on the tornados](http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/050703/new_20030507095.shtml "OnlineAthens: News: Storms lash Athens area 05/07/03") begins just over the ridge from my house and ends five miles away. Not reported here is the home destroyed and several others damaged two miles from me in the opposite direction.