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Posted by Becky Rock on 02-03-2012 at 23:15:
Midwest torandos
The midwest is being slammed by tornados, especially in Indiana, Tennessee and Kentucky.
I hope all of our members in Indiana are okay.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 03-03-2012 at 03:54:
Today certainly counts as "Freaky Friday".
It started around lunchtime -- the school systems just across the river (in Kentucky) started dismissing early in anticipation of the severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes. (That's never happened before in my lifetime.)
I was trying to get some online stuff done when the warning sirens went off. (As a matter of fact, I was on this site when it happened.) It was a bit of a surprise because it hadn't started raining yet...
At least three supercells raced through, just brushing the northern part of town. But several small communities to the northeast and northwest were hit hard. I don't know the extent of the damage yet, but so far there are 12 confirmed dead.
Right now, I honestly can't say how I feel. I'm just exhausted from the whole ordeal. It appears that the worst of it for me was just having the power go out for a few hours, and that makes me very fortunate. I can't even begin to imagine what the people who felt the full force of the storms are feeling right now.
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Posted by amethyst on 03-03-2012 at 04:21:
Good to hear your safe, EW. Hope other are too.
It seems like those things get stronger every year, but maybe it is just the media.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 03-03-2012 at 05:13:
In Indianapolis, there were some heavy thunderstorms, but that was all. I've been seeing photos of the tornado damage in other places, on the internet today. My heart goes out to the victims!
Posted by ChrisW on 03-03-2012 at 06:46:
Glad to hear you folks in the storm area are okay!
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Posted by KT1972 on 03-03-2012 at 09:49:
Been getting the news about them over here in the UK too... Hoping everyone in the path of the tornado stays safe!!
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Posted by littlewolf on 03-03-2012 at 09:55:
Good to hear you are safe EW
Please keep yourself safe over the upcoming seaon.
and to any others near that area, please play it safe as well
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 03-03-2012 at 14:02:
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I'm sure there are a lot of people who would rather have had the hype!
What made this batch of storms so devastating was that they produced "long track" tornadoes -- twisters that stay on the ground for many miles. It's the type of tornado you'd expect to see in Kansas or Oklahoma in the middle of summer. (We usually don't hear about those because they tend to happen where there's no population areas.) I just hate to think how much worse things could have been if the storms had hit during the night.
Anyway, if you want to see more about the tornadoes, you can check out this site:
http://www.wlky.com/index.html
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Posted by Becky Rock on 03-03-2012 at 14:34:
Has anyone heard from Garnet?
My husband is from the Indianapolis area and we have other friends who still live there. I've been there during one of these outbreaks and I never want to go through that again. Due to high water tables, most houses don't have basements.
In our hotel, they came around to the rooms and asked all the customers to come to the central hallway. Several people, including my husband, went outside to check the situation out. They all came back in to say the tornado was just to the north, very visible. The next day, we saw the damage. The only saving grace was it was farmland.
My thoughts are with the families who lost loved ones and those who lost their homes.
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Posted by Transmute Jun on 03-03-2012 at 14:52:
I'm glad to hear that everyone is okay! 
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Posted by amethyst on 03-03-2012 at 17:26:
I've been on the fringe of a few too, but not for many years.
The last one I remember, I was riding with my Aunt and Uncle from Iowa to Kenosha, Wisconsin. We were under a watch the whole way and into dinner, when it touched down a few communities north of Kenosha.
The closest one, was when I was about 5, again visiting my Aunt and Uncle and it touched down a few streets from the house. My Uncle "showed" us the remodel he had been doing on the basement, while my Aunt was standing outside the side door watching it, and my father stood at the base of the stairs yelling at her.
EW, thanks for that info. It's quite likely as population centers continue to grow, the more communities will be in the path of those dangerous ones. Kind of like here wild fires out here, since the undergrowth can't be burned off anymore due to housing growth in wild land areas.
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Posted by Daniella T on 03-03-2012 at 21:09:
I was thinking about you guys in the Midwest -- especially EW! Glad to know you're okay!
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Posted by k2p2 on 04-03-2012 at 11:29:
When I left home for Detroit on Friday, to the south and east was nothing but a dark wall of cloud...Had rain the entire trip with visibility on 30 feet or so at times.
Once here, (Detroit) warm and pleasant...but incredibly heavy winds, gust to 60mph as the cold front moved on through...Yesterday--snow...I'm not kidding you, Currier and Ives sorta snow, and me in my windbreaker/raincoat...
Hubby and kids are fine as the worst of the weather passed east of where we live...but the devestaion is horrible, Henryville, Indiana is gone--dozens have periished...very, very sad....
Posted by Becky Rock on 04-03-2012 at 19:46:
There's a town in Alabama that was hit that has been hit four times in the last few years, the last one being last spring. I think it's time to move out of that town.
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Posted by ElectricWhite on 17-03-2012 at 18:55:
The security cameras that were in Henryville (Indiana) High School when the March 2 tornadoes hit survived, and the footage was released yesterday. Seeing the images of the school as it was being destroyed by an EF4 tornado is simply jaw-dropping...
Here's a link: www.wlky.com/video/30699652/detail.html
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Posted by Becky Rock on 17-03-2012 at 20:18:
That is terrifying, but it's amazing the cameras survived. It looks like those kids getting off the school bus literally had 3 seconds to get in the building and that was it.
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Posted by lborgia88 on 17-03-2012 at 21:05:
Damn, that's scary! Makes me very glad that my neighborhood has tornado sirens, and the house has a basement.
Posted by ChrisW on 17-03-2012 at 21:10:
Yikes! Very glad BC isn't prone to tornados!
ETA: And wow yeah the kids didn't have much time did they?
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Posted by lborgia88 on 17-03-2012 at 21:35:
Though you probably have earthquakes to worry about. And on the east coast, there are hurricanes. It seems that no part of North America is safe from a natural disaster of some sort.
Posted by k2p2 on 17-03-2012 at 22:59:
Some friends of ours just had a close call with one in Michigan...missed their neighborhood, but their friends are going to have to move out for a while as their house had enough damage to make it unliveable...
Had enough of this weird weather!
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