Cyclonic Storm

First post in a while. I've been pretty busy with work so this goes on the back burner as much as I wish it didn't. Anyway, this is a little piece I've had in mind since the night of March 12th. There were some pretty nasty storms that blew over us that night and at 4AM the tornado warning sirens went off. Those of you who have lived in the Midwest probably know what I'm talking about but for those who do not they sound just like an air raid siren. If they go off it means that a tornado has been sighted on the ground somewhere nearby and you had better get in your basement. We grabbed the baby and the emergency supplies and headed to the basement which for us means going outside. We have one of those old fashioned basements with the double doors in the ground that you lift up to get in. Happily there was nothing to worry about and the storm passed without any damage and no tornado, at least near us. This piece is what I saw just before we went down into the basement. A huge swirling cloud that looked scary and green. The lightning inside it kept going like a strobe light. It sure LOOKED like it could turn into a tornado. I did the drawing on a Post It and scanned it into Photoshop where I did several layers of lighting effects. Then I exported it into Adobe Imageready and made it into the animated .GIF you see here.

Edit: Crap. Looks like Blogspot changes .GIFs into .JPEGs. Not cool. Oh well, here's a link to the original .GIF if you want to see the animation: http://webpages.charter.net/cdrost3/cyclonic-storm-reduced.gif