Check out the video. It may not have been a tornado technically, but it was a serious storm passing through Clarkston and northern Oakland County on July 23.

And if you're living there, hey, it's close enough! Thanks for the reader posting this video:

Has it always been common for cable news shows, interested in keeping a well-known story fresh, to interview photographers about photos they had shot?

I don't recall seeing that, though I know it's good to interview reporters about a closely watched trial. The beat reporter is often a good one to provide deep facts when you want to do an hour on a story and not just a five-minute update.

This morning, I heard two simultaneous interviews with photographers during cable tv news coverage of the Moore, Oklahoma, tornadoes and school rescue/deaths as I drove to work. I had earlier seen the front pages showcased on the news, perhaps the "Today Show," and the follow ups inquired from the photographers first-person accounts.

It makes sense as newspaper photographers are there and can provide witness accounts, both as a human and as a professional journalist. It is interesting stuff, providing a factual and human element to a story that so often is fueled by speculation as cable news broadcasters rarely get time for lengthy eye witness accounts. Good job in both cases.

It's an incredible story developing in the South with the wide areas damaged by tornadoes this week.

What is most amazing, just as with the earthquake and tsumani in Japan, are the videos that show the destruction. It really opens up my eyes, even though you can measure the damage in lives lost, homes damaged and dollar amounts. But seeing what people lived through, wow, that is eye opening.