A tornado touches down near cousin Chris & Co.

The scrapblog editor ditched her bossy editor's role Sunday night to work what she was sure would be a sleepy reporting shift, and ended up earning her pay, for once, by writing a Page 1A story about the Hugo tornado and a Page 1B story about major progress on the new Interstate 35W bridge for your favorite daily newspaper. (The scrapblog editor likes reporting because it consists primarily of bothering people, something she is fairly good at.) But most of the evening she spent fretting about whether brother Chris, cousin to you-all, and his brood were OK, since the lethal tornado she was reporting on had touched down just 2 miles from their lovely home in Centerville, Minn. Thank goodness, the Millers are OK, but their house took a beating. Some photos taken by Mary: E. collected golfball-sized hail from their yard, which emitted an eerie ice fog. The siding of their home took a beating, Chris reported. An insurance agent is coming to check out the damage in the morning. E. showed off some stellar hail the Millers stashed in the freezer. We feel sure the insurance agent will be presented with same.