Grandma's House

The storms last Sunday seemed determined to do damage to university campuses. More than 60 percent of the buildings on the Kansas University campus were damaged, and then there was a delayed reaction to the storm on the Missouri University campus:

A lightning strike last Sunday smoldered for three days before becoming a two-alarm fire in the attic of the Southwest Campus Housing complex under construction at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The lightning strike penetrated the building, generating heat in the wooden roof trusses, which began to smolder until conditions allowed more air to reach the attic, feeding the fire and creating flames. Damage estimates to the 659-bed housing complex were not available.

Weird, huh?