Solyst's optimism doesn't obscure the fact that two lives were lost in the tornadoes. Again and again residents shake their heads at what might have happened had Gustavus Adolphus College been in session. Its 23-hundred students were on spring break. The college sits atop a hill overlooking St. Peter. It took a direct hit. Windows are shattered everywhere, most of the mature trees on campus were knocked flat. The buildings suffered damage, one was destroyed. Since the disaster struck, President Axel Steuer has been consumed with getting the campus ready for the students' return.--hopefully by mid-April. I walked across campus with him, and asked him what it was like to see his campus so heavily damaged: | D-CART ITEM: 1385 | TIME: 4:08 | OUTCUE: "...never went out."