Tornado

[DUD]

We had one today, it had rotation, not straight line winds. It stopped about 250 feet from My Brothers Home, which is a half mile from Me. One Business totalled lots of trees and fences, etc. We lost some branches, but no real problems. Bill

[Uncle Cracker]

Glad to hear all is OK. Those things are scary.

[germdoc]

I lived in Kansas (Hutchinson) for 2 years and never saw one once. Dang! I kept the video recorder charged up at all times just in case.

Seriously, those things are scary. People who live in places without tornadoes can't understand how sudden and destructive they can be. Glad no one was hurt.

[iceman61]

DUD, it jumped across the river & tore up some stuff on the TN side, mostly in rural areas.

[DUD]

It was scary, We were under a Tornado Watch, but no notice of the storm. My Brother is still without electricity, His office was also off awhile. Iceman, I'm glad it didn't hit a city. Bill

[footprintsinconc]

glad to hear that eveyone is fine. its really unfortunate for those who suffer losses during these storms.

[DUD]

The Red Cross was out for the workers, TV coverage local, Memphis, Little Rock, and Newspapers too. The City Water and Light Crews, Mulitple Fire and Police, it was amazing how quickly they acted. Found a link to our local TV station. Bill


http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=7594272

[jackellis]

Glad to hear no one was hurt.

That same storm dumped two feet of snow on our deck at Lake Tahoe and five feet at the tops of the mountains.

I knew the East was going to get hammered, but tornadoes in January never occurred to me.

[Pappy]

Good to hear you are still on the ground! Grew up in the tornado alley along the Red River. The house I grew up in was hit 3 times. Don't miss them at all.

[lrogers]

I saw the pictures on the news last night. Weird how those things hit and destroy one house and leave the one across the street untouched.

Glad you came though okay Bill.

[DUD]

I mean it was wierd, I know they just come and go, but it touched down, behind the Jr High that My oldest GrandDaughter goes to. It continued on and picked up just before My GrandDaughters Elementary School, damaging the roof as it went by. Bill

[Ed62]

We don't get many tornados here, but we do get a few. I never actually saw one, but we had one come close to our house many years ago. It was scary, to say the least. Glad you were all spared the worst of it.

Ed

[ironhat]

You're right DUD, we can't imagine what those things are like. I watch that stuff ad it really creeps me out. I'm glad your family is OK - pretty dang scary that it was sooo close to the schools.

[iceman61]

DUD, I was watching the Memphis news last night & they were interviewing a couple here in my county that were in their 60's that the tornado hit their house. The roof got ripped off the whole house, & the news crew showed video to back this up; the ceiling drywall was sucked out of every other room. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. The couple came out without so much as a scratch.

2 years ago a tornado hit here & killed 12 people. I was involved in clean up & while standing on a hill overlooking the line that the tornado took I saw that the roof was ripped off of every other house. It kinda looked like a checker board. They are truely strange creatures.

[Stytooner]

Glad you weren't too bad off, Bill. My Mom lives in Oklahoma and they get them frequently out there. She will be moving down to Alabama in about a year or so though.
Well a couple weeks back, I was out in the shop during a bad storm. We too were under a watch. I saw the winds pick up and hear the familiar sound. The shop itself didn't move, but stuff was flying all around. I saw a small pine tree behind the shop get topped out and fell towards the shop. I got down under a steel table in the shop and soon it was over. Nice and calm then.

The worst of it was just debris, but it picked up my big green trash can on wheels and carried it over the road and the fence about 150 feet into the pasture across the road. It apparently never touched the fence.

I have seen several tornado's when I was in Okla for awhile. They are still scary though. Especially so when they sneak up on you. I don't think this one actually touched down, but it was close enough for me.

A couple weeks before that, we had some hail that blasted the skylights out in my shop. I had just completed the roofing repairs to it when this happened. I just knew that roof was coming off.