As most of you know, there was a huge outbreak of tornadoes yesterday and into last night. I consider myself lucky to have a basement both because of the protection factor in bad weather and somewhere to put my trains. (See, it wasn’t totally off topic.) Anyway, my house was spared, but I can’t say the same about the people who live along Highway 91 in North Christian County. They got the worst of it. You can see a poicture of the tornatic thunderstorm if you click on this link: www.newschannel5.com/content/.
It’s the picture below the “Top Story” text. It was taken from the Jenny Stuart Medical Center in downtown Hopkinsville at 9:10 on Sunday night.
-Brandon
wow thats scary, glad your ok
james
Brandon, we saw all the devastation on the local TV stations here as well as the Weather Channel. I just can’t imagine being under the gun in Tornado prone areas so often. We had only one Tornado here in central Mass, it was in June of 1953, and it really paid us a terrible visit, an F5!!! It killed over 90 people and injured more than 1000, and did millions of $$ damage, completely wiping Assumption College off the map. I was 13 at the time, and I don’t ever want to see another one.
If I lived in any part of the country that was considered Tornado alley, I would have a basement for sure.
I am happy to hear you and your family were not effected. I saw one house that they could not find one stick of wood…the entire house was blown away!!!
The first shot hit us about 3:30 pm. I had just gotten in my car in Mt. Pleasant to drive to Columbia. I had only gone a block when it hit. I thought I could out run it (it wasn’t a tornado, just a front). I didn’t manage to out run it, but I did manage to drive in it for 3/4 of the way. When I got to my house I found about 20 shingles off the roof, but no other problems. My heart goes out to those who lost loved ones.
Thanks for all the replies. On Tuesday, I took a tour of the damage by car. Four foot diameter trees snapped in half, mobile homes completely demolished, and houses slid off their foundations. It was pretty bad. It pretty much ripped the northern part of the county in half. The final estimation of the damage caused it to be rated as an F4 on the Fugita scale. If you don’t know how bad that is, think of it as one level below the most destructive tornado possible, an F5.
Even worse, more weather like that is heading this way as I type this. I hope that same thing doesn’t happen again.
PS, the picture is no longer under the “Top Story” text, but it’s in there somewhere.
-Brandon