A moment of silence, please — or, perhaps, a moment of slurping — for Irvine Robbins, as in "Baskin-" — the co-founder, with his brother-in-law, of the ice-cream franchise of "31 Flavors" fame.

So what's your favorite flavor?

As many of you know, my secondary duty at the newspaper where I work is to keep track of severe weather for the breaking-news blog on the paper's Web site.

So, late afternoon, the line of storms comes through, and I stick around to live-blog it. Severe warnings, but not much to it otherwise. Then the storms are done, and Waco gets removed from the tornado watch, and I figure I'll get to go home soon. But there's this one little flyspeck on radar, in Falls County to our south...

Suffice to say, it didn't stay a flyspeck.

Three tornado touchdowns later (no injuries and not much damage reported, thank goodness), I'm finally home, eating a much-delayed dinner...