Tornado Anders

We were at Davanni's Pizza with Dorene, Kari, and Grace when Mandy called to say a tornado had been spotted in Downtown Minneapolis. As a native Kansan, I'm pretty familiar with the warning signs of a tornado and they didn't really exist where we were east of Downtown. I think the damage was relatively small.
Anders, meanwhile, is on full feedings, which are about 16 mils every 3 hours. They are keeping the IV line open just in case they might need it later. He now weighs over 3 lbs! 3 lb 1 Oz! Three pounds is a HUGE milestone for us, sort of like the 4 minute mile was for Floyd Bannister. Perhaps he can be 4 lbs by his mom's birthday in 2 weeks. We were just hoping for 3 lbs for her birthday.
They are scaling back the breaths he takes from the ventilator to 26 per minute. They will try to go down to 23 per minute for the overnight and consider going down further tomorrow. He needs to be somewhere between 15-20 breaths per minute on the ventilator to be extibated. Breaths per minute are the measuring stick for extibation, not the level of oxygen he is receiving. He's around 35% O2 right now (21% being room air), but the percentage of oxygen he is receiving has no effect on whether or not he's extibated.
I had good weather this morning for my run. I made is a bit over six miles round trip, to the west end of Lake Nikomis. I will have to find a new route now that we are out in Edina.
Only an act of God like this could knock Brett Favre of the top of the newscast or the front page.
The tornado hit at the convention center and Central Lutheran Church where the ELCA is having their big church assembly. I think it took down their beer tent (no joke, they actually have a beer/wine tent for the convention). Perhaps God is not as cool with drinking as Jesus is...