It has been 10 years since that terrible night. A night that will be in our memories until the day our souls move onward.

It seems hard to believe that is has been 10 years. Like waking up from a dream and realizing that you can’t remember all of the details but you remember the feelings – you remember the flashes of events. Like still photographs. Memories.

Our lives have changed so much over the last ten years. This region has been through one extreme weather event after another. With no real end sight. Perhaps next year won’t be extreme or perhaps the year after that. These are the thoughts that pass through our heads. Yet, the disasters continue. Severe floods, tornadoes, droughts, ice storms, extreme warmth and cold. One is reminded that norms are made up of extremes. Except the extremes aren’t all supposed to happen at once.

Today we will remember those who lost their lives in the Tri-County Tornado of May 6, 2013. Ten years later.