Dear Readers, Today has been a little surreal as a tornado had a direct hit on my hometown of Eureka, Kansas. You can usually see them coming if it's daylight but this time the siren sounded and one minute later it hit at 7:21 p.m. My own mother told me it sounded exactly like a freight train running through her house. She is fine as all my family. A huge limb fell but missed the house and the big oak completely came uprooted from my sister's front yard but fell sideways so did not hit …