This seemed worthy of reposting in its own thread so it is easily found. Thanks to Cosmic for passing it on, and to Kracker for his effort to establish contact with Cruzan: via Cosmik via Kracker via Facebook with this message:
"We are fine, no damage at all, My parents home was leveled but they were not hurt, we are busy trying to dig out their stuff for now, thanks for thinking of Us!"~ John Cruzan May 23 at 10:22pm
I for one am very happy to know that Cruzan and family are unharmed! While I haven't had the pleasure of knowing him personally, his influence and unselfish contributions to pirate radio (as founder of the FRN and owner of its server) over many years are indisputable.
tcsshortwave covers it all here:
http://tcsshortwave.blogspot.com/2011/05/frn-knocked-offline-by-joplin-tornado.html(And, since John and family are now known to be safe and well, it no longer seems necessary to withhold my own opinions on a related matter.)