I live in Hugo, and this tornado pretty much went through my backyard. Our house was comparatively undamaged. We just had some siding damage and our patio furniture and grill blew away. We were able to recover both minus the lid for the grill. but the grill was banged up enough that we had to get rid of it. There were houses close enough that i could throw a baseball at that has significant damage and i can see houses that were completely destroyed from my back door. We had pert of someones roof truss on our patio and there was debris all over the marsh behind our house. We have been under mandatory evacuations for the past two days. Neither my wife or I were home at the time. I was at an event in white bear township and left that after the fire department made us leave because of the advancing storms. I was hearing spotter reports of wall clouds up towards home and started heading that way. I think i got home just a few minutes after the storm went through because there were no emergency personnel on scene when i got there. I called the damage in to skywarn. Then about 15 minutes later we got hit with golfball sized hail, which i also called in. I walked around the neighborhood talking to neighbors after the storm and took a few pictures.
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The little boy who was sadly killed was just a few blocks away and when i was out walking i was actually quite close to that area. Thats really a sad story for that family.
For those of you listening to your scanners at the time I'd be interested to know what you heard and what talk groups and conventional stuff they were using. I had my scanner on when i was walking around but i wasn't paying real close attention to it. I did hear operations on statewide fire and a lot of traffic on the Washington county fire main.
On another note, i have to say that i have never seen so many emergency personnel from so many different agencies in one place in my life. They literally came from everywhere to help. It was truly an amazing response.