Tornado here a couple days ago

[GunnyGene]

Been digging out from the tornado that hit our little community late Sat night. Tore up the town pretty bad. Fire dept. building was nothing but a pile of rubble and many homes & businesses destroyed or heavily damaged. Some neighbors helped me clear our totally blocked 1/4 mile long driveway thru our woods. Still no power, but have a small genset that a neighbor loaned me for the duration. Miles of wire and power poles down. 1 death, many injured. Our house was undamaged and we're ok. Some pics of my place right after the storm.

Back porch. Big tree that luckily fell away instead of on us.


This one narrowly missed my shop and landed on my old target mower.


Built this arbor about 14 years ago.


This big old boy lost the top half.


One of a dozen or so that fell over my driveway from the house to the street a quarter mile away.



Some drone video of the main street where most of the damage was. The thing traveled from south to north and whipped east/west leaving a trail of destruction about mile wide and 10 miles long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUxfBGz6oOs

Some local news today about the cleanup, etc.

https://www.wtva.com/content/news/Churc ... 17151.html

[Mags]

Glad to see you made it through mostly ok.

[Henry88]

I bet that weather vane was spinning

[JEBar]

hate to hear of your property damage .... sure glad it wasn't any worse .... we had some pretty stiff, straight line winds that took some siding off of our youngest son's place

[fortyshooter]

Glad you are OK and didn't suffer any damage to your house!
We got hit with that big line of storms around 1:00 AM Monday morning and with tornado watches out that was some of the hardest rain I have
heard. Another round of this is supposed to blow thru our area again Friday.
We seem to get a lot of this since last year.

Stay safe!

[GunnyGene]

Glad you are OK and didn't suffer any damage to your house!
We got hit with that big line of storms around 1:00 AM Monday morning and with tornado watches out that was some of the hardest rain I have
heard. Another round of this is supposed to blow thru our area again Friday.
We seem to get a lot of this since last year.

Stay safe!

Weather guesser is forcasting another round of heavy t-storms for our area tomorrow evening. Don't need that, even if it's just a rain maker. Hopefully it won't spawn any midnight twisters like the one that slammed us late Sat. night. That was an EF2 according to the reports.

Y'all stay safe also.

[GunnyGene]

Been almost 3 weeks since that twister came thru. Gradually getting the mess cleaned up, but still a long ways to go. I'm about out of room to make burn piles, which will have to sit there till at least this fall to dry out enough to burn.



Got that big root ball cut off and back in the hole it came out of. New target stump at least! About 4' tall x 30" dia.

[JEBar]

I never cease to be amazed at how a short period of high winds can cause damage that requires months to get over .... looks like y'all are well on your way

[RanchRoper]

Stay safe.

[BigAl52]

Glad to see you are ok Gene tornados suck for sure. Have enough to do I bet without the mess left behind.