Wednesday, February 06, 2008

No Tornado Here last night

Memphis and Jackson, large cities to the west and south of us, were hit hard by tornadoes last night. They have a lot of damage. (The Jackson Sun Newspaper) Several buildings collapsed, were taken away or otherwise damaged. Several people were trapped in roof collapses and some were killed. There is a huge fire northeast of Nashville with flames up to 400 feet high. On a Fark thread we saw a picture someone had taken at midnight that looks like a beautiful red sunset, but is actually the fire viewed from 30 miles away.

Here we just got the scary wind, rain and hailstones. It got loud a couple of times and the scanner issued a tornado warning twice. Among all the 'road blocked by tree' reports on the scanner we heard that a barn had been deposited in a road to the south of us. That's funny in a way, but shows it was a powerful storm even by the time it got here!

Lynn emailed me this morning and said the storm that hit this area is now a blizzard up there. What weird weather!

5 comments:

Jeanne said...

I heard about those storms and thought immediately of you, and Michael's family in Jackson. Everyone is OK though. Whew.

mrspao said...

Glad you are all ok. Your weather sounds scary.

Anonymous said...

Wow, RheLynn, scary!

Anonymous said...

Thankful to read that you are all okay :-)

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear y'all are okay. The tornado skipped right over my Mom and Dad.