P.B. Shelley On The Tornadoes

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

This reporter pays little attention to tornado timing (It's always earthquake season.) but we hear this sort of thing is somewhat rare in December.Via Comrade Misfit. 

And WDRB.