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[Lexy]

suburban george3, on Feb 6 2008, 01:39 PM, said:

*bump*

After last night's deadly outbreak in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi; I just wanted to pass along my prayers and condolences to anyone in the UP community and the effected areas in general.  It was a tragic loss of life.

So is Kentucky not in the south here?  LOL!  Three dead in my hometown (Central City) from a F3 tornado.  Not to mention my cousin is without a home today thanks to the twister.

[suburban george3]

Lexy, on Feb 7 2008, 08:35 AM, said:

So is Kentucky not in the south here? LOL! Three dead in my hometown (Central City) from a F3 tornado. Not to mention my cousin is without a home today thanks to the twister.

Actually, I had not heard of damage from storms in Kentucky or Alabama when I posted this yesterday!  So, they need to be in our thoughts as well...

I hate to hear about your cousin losing the home...

[Lexy]

suburban george3, on Feb 7 2008, 09:21 AM, said:

Actually, I had not heard of damage from storms in Kentucky or Alabama when I posted this yesterday!  So, they need to be in our thoughts as well...

I hate to hear about your cousin losing the home...

Thank you.  No worries though.  I was just picking on you primarily.  I should have some pictures from up there later this weekend.

[kayman]

This was one of the largest tornado outbreaks in nearly 3 years.  I must say that when the storms hit last Wednesday morning that I thought they would have weakened, but apparently that reintensified instead.  More than 50 people lost their lives in these storms, and that is bad regardless time of the year.

[Nashville_maestro]

Very informative jaxboro. Thank you. I didnt know that the death toll was still cimbing! That's not good news. I say its a miracle that the twisters lept over downtown Nashville. I can just immagine the damage if a f3 or f4 hit downtown... I went outside when the cell was over west end (not the smartest move but I wanted to see if i could hear anything as to know if I should hit the deck or not. -I live near Belmont). I looked up at the sky and the clouds were swirling really fast but it was eerily calm on the ground. No rain or anything. Freaky. My condolances go out to anyone affected.

Edited by Nashville_maestro, 12 February 2008 - 03:51 AM.

[Lexy]

Here's some pictures of the devestation from my hometown of Central City, KY.  That was where three were killed by the EF3 tornado.  I took these over the weekend.


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[smeagolsfree]

I think I heard this morning that preliminary damage figures from Macon county alone is about 80 million and that is a rural county. The tornado cut a path through the entire county.

[Rural King]

This is the third time since 2002 that the city of Jackson has been directly hit by a tornado. Union University in fact was hit in two of those events, the one in 2002 and this latest storm in which much of its campus and several of it dormatories were severely damaged. Amazingly and thankfully no students died in last Tuesday nights direct hit on the campus...which can only be seen as a "miracle" in for anyone who has seen pictures of how badly those dorms were hit. I have not heard or read a total of what it is estimated the damage to Jackson will end up being, but being that it hit the Universit and tore through the higher end residential, commercial, and medical areas in North Jackson I would think the price tag could end up being quite steep.

[ohioaninSC]

Looks like a massive tornado hits Suffolk, VA in the Hampton Roads area this afternoon.  Is that an area that normally sees severe weather on this kind of scale?  Or is this just a freak incident for that area.

[kayman]

ohioaninSC, on Apr 28 2008, 08:17 PM, said:

Looks like a massive tornado hits Suffolk, VA in the Hampton Roads area this afternoon.  Is that an area that normally sees severe weather on this kind of scale?  Or is this just a freak incident for that area.

That area occasionally does not see severe weather to the scale of tornadoes rather just strong thunderstorms with damaging winds, but most of the time tornadoes are usually associated with tropical systems making landfall.

[suburban george3]

*bump*

Last Sunday night, there were a few tornadoes that touched down close to me in Davidson County, NC and in High Point.  In Davidson County there was a mobile home park hit where some of the trailers were picked up and thrown into a nearby lake by an EF2.  In High Point, 649 buildings were damaged with 25 dwellings being condemned in the aftermath of an EF3 which struck.  Fortunately there was no loss of life or serious injury.  The storms struck after dark (NC leading the nation in night-time tornado deaths.)  Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

Today at work I was showing some co-workers pictures of the damage from one of the neighborhoods in High Point.  This neighborhood has interested me greatly because the same builder developed this neighborhood that developed mine using similar floor plans.  One house looks as if the upper story was pushed like a building block.  We were arguing today that there must have been some kind of failure in the construction of that house.  I argued, as an EF3 can cause considerable damage.  However, looking online this evening, I don't think I've ever seen anything similar to this, as most homes loose roofs, window, walls, etc.  Here is a link to the picture gallery from the WGHP website, the pic showing the house is number 29.  What do you think?

Here is a link to the section on WGHP's website concerning the tornado damage.

Edited by suburban george3, 05 April 2010 - 07:51 PM.