Sometimes I worry about Google Maps

[fivemack]

I was talking to a friend in Columbus, Ohio, and asked whether he'd been affected by the tornadoes in Kansas, because I thought the middle of America was all one place.

To drive from Columbus, Ohio to Greensburg, Kansas is 1541 kilometres; almost exactly the same distance as to drive from Cambridge to Vienna. People rarely ask me whether my house is dry when they've heard that the Danube's flooded in Austria.

Comments

[jojomojo.livejournal.com]

Heh, he's only about 3 hours drive south of me though ;)

(I'm not sure whether Ohio gets tornadoes; Michigan certainly does, but not
the big classical twisters you see in Kansas)

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

We do get tornadoes, and the occasion flattening of somewhere. Columbus got a few houses flattened not so long ago. One of the more devastating touchdowns of recent decades was in Xenia. There was something a couple of weeks ago actually but I don't know how much damage it did apart from making us miss television shows in favor of emergency weather reports.