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Cazzie
SOH-CM-2024
It has been a year of them for us folks in the southeast US, so many more and so many deaths (23 in North Carolina last week). The mid-west is accustomed to these things, but we are not. Two set down yesterday not 20 miles from my home. Where I live, they only damage structures in high places and in low valleys (more like dales here). Mobile homes and metal structures are always wasted. Uprooted trees actually do as much, if not more, damage to homes and vehicles than the tornadoes. And our rains are much more intense than a mid-western thunderstorm, because moisture is pulled in from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, so floods are always a threat too.
I had my water pump at the ready, but fortunes saw fit that not even a drop of rain fell over my residence last night, the nearest the rain came was 5 miles. That's the way it is with these things, folks in my area were untouched, drive 20 miles to the west and you see devastation.
Last week I went with the Red Cross to Rowland, North Carolina to help temporary repairs after the tree people had done their work. I would be doing the same tomorrow nearer to me in Axton and Brosville, Virginia, except trouble comes in bunches, and I have to take my youngest son to the hospital for one-day surgery kidney stone removal.
We Confederates have been bumped around the past two weeks. It seems fatality-wise, Georgia caught the brunt of it this time.
Thanks for thinking of us Sascha. Myself, I have been a fortunate son, but a lot of people throughout the southern US have been robbed of all of their belonging by a thieving wind. That's one reason I volunteer to help, because there but for fortune go I.
Caz
I had my water pump at the ready, but fortunes saw fit that not even a drop of rain fell over my residence last night, the nearest the rain came was 5 miles. That's the way it is with these things, folks in my area were untouched, drive 20 miles to the west and you see devastation.
Last week I went with the Red Cross to Rowland, North Carolina to help temporary repairs after the tree people had done their work. I would be doing the same tomorrow nearer to me in Axton and Brosville, Virginia, except trouble comes in bunches, and I have to take my youngest son to the hospital for one-day surgery kidney stone removal.
We Confederates have been bumped around the past two weeks. It seems fatality-wise, Georgia caught the brunt of it this time.
Thanks for thinking of us Sascha. Myself, I have been a fortunate son, but a lot of people throughout the southern US have been robbed of all of their belonging by a thieving wind. That's one reason I volunteer to help, because there but for fortune go I.
Caz
Sascha, thanks for your concern and prayers. I live in Eastern TN and we had a tornado come thru not more than a mile from our house. Thank God everyone in our neigborhood is ok and we had VERY minor damage (one shingle ripped from our roof), but overall, two people in our county were killed and countless more lost everything. I can literally drive around the curve from my house and see the path the tornado took thru the area. It looks like a bomb or something exploded leaving about a 100 ft wide path of destruction in each direction. It's truely heartbreaking to see the damage and I can't imagine what those people are going thru right now
This was the first tornado I've ever experienced and the noise is undescribable. What was more terrifying was it being dark and my wife and I having no idea, where it was or if we were about to take a direct hit. I don't think I will sleep well at all the next time we are expecting storms to come thru the area.
It's just now sinking in how lucky and blessed we really are. Everytime I go out I notice more damage and just how close it came. I still do not have internet service at home and LOTS of people are without electricity, but I'm not complaining. There are more people out there in far worse situations right now than not being able to get online.
Darrell
This was the first tornado I've ever experienced and the noise is undescribable. What was more terrifying was it being dark and my wife and I having no idea, where it was or if we were about to take a direct hit. I don't think I will sleep well at all the next time we are expecting storms to come thru the area.
It's just now sinking in how lucky and blessed we really are. Everytime I go out I notice more damage and just how close it came. I still do not have internet service at home and LOTS of people are without electricity, but I'm not complaining. There are more people out there in far worse situations right now than not being able to get online.
Darrell
rhumbaflappy
Charter Member
There are over 300 dead from the outbreak. Many thousands injured. Over 1,000,000 without electricity as of this morning. Billions in property damage.The worst outbreak since April 1974.
In the South, Midwest, plains states, and southern Canadian plains, we are used to the threat... but never can get used to the death, injury and property loss.
Dick
In the South, Midwest, plains states, and southern Canadian plains, we are used to the threat... but never can get used to the death, injury and property loss.
Dick
Just came home from work!
I am saddened by the updates, so many left homeless or injured while the death toll has risen. Hopefully the tornado danger has passed! I hope people can now start rebuilding their lives and pray for strength and courage for those who have lost family or friends or home.
Sascha
I am saddened by the updates, so many left homeless or injured while the death toll has risen. Hopefully the tornado danger has passed! I hope people can now start rebuilding their lives and pray for strength and courage for those who have lost family or friends or home.
Sascha
TeaSea
SOH-CM-2014
We sent one of our troopers on Emergency Leave this week to go search for his grandmother in Tuscaloosa. She had come up missing.
Fortunately she and some of her neighbors were in the basement of her house and were fine. The house was gone though, and they were trapped. Still, not a totally bad ending to the story.
I was in Tuscaloosa in November. Ironically, I had to divert there in the Archer on the way back from visiting family Hot Springs, Arkansas due to bad thunderstorms.
As an aside, the North American continent is one of the few locations in the world that experiences all severe weather disturbances in addition to volcanoes, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, locusts, malaria, yellow fever, raining frogs and all the other Old Testament scourges.
Fortunately she and some of her neighbors were in the basement of her house and were fine. The house was gone though, and they were trapped. Still, not a totally bad ending to the story.
I was in Tuscaloosa in November. Ironically, I had to divert there in the Archer on the way back from visiting family Hot Springs, Arkansas due to bad thunderstorms.
As an aside, the North American continent is one of the few locations in the world that experiences all severe weather disturbances in addition to volcanoes, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, locusts, malaria, yellow fever, raining frogs and all the other Old Testament scourges.