Tornado cleanup begins

Ellettsville -- John and Linda Bybee were some of the lucky ones.\nA tornado ripped through their neighborhood Friday afternoon, destroying homes, uprooting trees and throwing debris everywhere. The Bybee home was for the most part intact after the storm rolled through, but many of their belongings weren't.\n"I don't understand it," John said. "It hits my brand-new truck, but it doesn't hurt her Cadillac right next to it."\n"Nothing hurts the Caddy," Linda replied.\nChildren's toys, aluminum siding and tree limbs littered their yard. A soaked, seemingly-lost dog hid behind Linda's legs.\n"He just showed up here," she said.\nAt a time when the town was left looking to the skies in awe and an eerie silence filled the air, charity was a common feeling for all.\nThe Bybees made sure their neighbor's windows were boarded up before more rain flooded the house. The house behind them lost a part of its roof, but more neighbors came with a ladder and tarps to patch the leaking area.\nThe damage was different for each house, but the story was the same for everyone.\n"I was in the back just looking for something to happen," John said. "I couldn't see it, I just heard it coming by."\nWhen the tornado got closer, Linda said she ran for safety, but John didn't follow.\n"He was by the window. I was already downstairs and I was yelling 'Get down here. Get down here,'" Linda said. "We could hear all the trees hit and everything,"\nThe tornado, measuring an F3 on the Fujita scale, moved across a 150-mile stretch from the state's southwestern corner to Indianapolis, but, miraculously, there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries.\nJay Humphrey, an Ellettsville police officer, was acting as a spotter for the National Weather Service when the tornado tore through town. He said the tornado was 100 yards wide.\nThe funnel cloud formed about a half-mile from Edgewood High School in Ellettsville, but apparently didn't touch down until it was past the school's yard, said Gary Anderson, a physical education and communications teacher at Edgewood. Anderson was watching the storm outside with a group of teachers as it approached.\n"All of a sudden we saw the funnel form. I said 'Oh my God,' and we started running," Anderson said.\nStudents in the school sat in the dark gymnasium while teachers kept order and contacted parents to pick up their children. The school sustained only minor damage.\nThe electricity was out because of downed power lines all over town, but utility crews said they planned to work around the clock to restore power.\nDespite the damage, the Bybees are looking beyond what was lost. As John surveyed the three large trees and lawn chair that were thrown into his pool during the storm, he came to one conclusion.\n"It may be time to put in a rock garden"