Our storms last night= 8 dead.

[dixiegrrrrl]

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AP says 8 dead:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gswn490ullnezAVPKJo3ECdc3fvA?docId=6469491

ABC says 7 dead
http://abcnews.go.com/US/severe-weather-tornadoes-pound-southeast/story?id=13301367

Both say "severe" and I can attest they were not kidding.
In our area, it was pretty loud, fast moving, lots of lightening.

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[suffragette]

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:hug:

[Greybnk48]

3. That sounds terrifying. And that father and son.

:cry:

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. THAT did break my heart.

I still have terrifying tornado nightmares from time to time,just from living in this area.
I cannot imagine the dreams that poor mother will have.
In the dark, in all the noise of lightening and thunder, there is no way you can even hear a tornado coming.

[pipi_k]

10. The nightmares...

I was living in TN during that big tornado outbreak of April 3 - 4, 1974.

I saw one funnel cloud out my front window. Thought I and the kids were going to die. It went the other way.

Went out the next day and saw some of the damage.

I wasn't even involved in anything truly traumatic, yet all these years later I still have nightmares involving tornadoes, and they are the only weather system that truly frighten me.

I can't even imagine how horrible it must be to actually be IN one of those things and survive. The nightmares must truly last forever...

:(

[Mnemosyne]

5. ...

So glad to know you are safe. :hug:

Where are you, dixiegrrrrl? I lived in Oneonta/Remlap, northeast of B'ham and in Hope Hull, south of Montgomery. It got bad at times, really bad.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Oh my, you are in the tornado belt, for sure.

I am tucked away in SW Ala. which is "usually" too far from the coast for serious hurricane impact,
( except for Ivan in '94, a direct hit, oh my) and just a county south of the more severe bands of bad storms.
So I knew when the windows were rattling here that you guys in the belt were really getting it.

[Mnemosyne]

13. I moved back North in 1997, but there were some terrible storms hit Montgomery while

I was there from 1993 to 1996; and 1977/78. I do not miss those horrible southern storms one bit, but I do miss the beautiful countryside with the red clay.

My family lost their house, here in NW PA, in the May 1985 deadly storms (F4 & F5), so I know that no US location is safe either. 12 dead in my county that day. Dad was buried under his tractor trailer garage and needed 100+ stitches in his arm alone. Strangely, Dad died 19 years later, almost to the exact hour, in an ATV accident about a hundred yards from where he was buried under the garage.

I spent half my time cowering in the bathtub the first two years in Alabama, from March to November, due to my fear after the tornadoes here. I finally refused to be afraid any longer and started sitting on the porch as much as I could during storms.

I still have a healthy respect for those dang tornadoes, but have not been almost paralyzed by fear of them since living in Bama. It 'cured' me. :evilgrin:

It is weird, but most countries do not have tornadoes with the regularity that the US does. I wonder why that is?

Stay safe down there, dixiegrrrrl! :hug::hi:

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. t most countries do not have tornadoes with the regularity that the US does. I wonder why that is?

I heard it explained that the combination of the Gulf of Mexico ( warm moisture)
and the Rockies combine to form a wind pattern of low and high pressure,which in spring, as the temps get warmer,
create these storms. Most of the country east of the Rockies is flat, the entire Miss. River valley from the Gulf right up into Canada.
Interestingly, tornado reports in Cal. are increasing.

[Mnemosyne]

16. Thanks for info! The times they are a'changing... n/t

[Donnachaidh]

6. DH throws papers in the middle of the night

I think I drove him nuts - calling and checking on him several times during the night. I always have worries about him having a tree come down on the car.

[CatWoman]

7. I lost power around 11:30

and it didn't come back on until around 8 this morning.

Driving to work I heard about all the fatalities.

And there were felled trees all over the place!! :scared:

[upi402]

8. Glad you're okay

Are southerners questioning whether or not climate deniers might be full of *it* yet?

Savannah is beautiful, but it really is like a savannah. Storms roll right over it uninterrupted.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Compared to the "normal" every afternoon ground lightening storms of Fla.

I am grateful we now live where we do.
Still, the sound of cannons firing directly over the house for a half hour CAN be daunting.
Sometimes I want to join the dog hiding under my desk.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

12. how AWFUL!!

I sure hope it calms down for you. There have been some fierce storms in the southeast in the past week.

[Obamanaut]

15. Terry Jones caused those deaths by burning a weather map. nt