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  • #1

    Wow, tornadoes suck... and blow... and stuff

    For years growing up in the South we had tornado drills along with fire drills and hurricane (pronounced -kane not -kin) safety alerts. We didn't have any come too close, but last Saturday my hometown sure got pummeled by them. Actually, a lot of eastern NC did.

    Here's a collection of photos, though I can't post any directly from the first 2 sets because they're blocked:

    http://wilsontimes.mycapture.com/myc...=0&thisPage=20 (work backwards from here)

    http://wilsontimes.mycapture.com/myc...s=0&thisPage=8

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    On a more amusing note...

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    I have nothing else to say at this time.

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    • #3
      These things just keep coming. We're bracing for more coming in from 2-5am so it might be a long night.
      I have nothing else to say at this time.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Parrot Head View Post
        These things just keep coming. We're bracing for more coming in from 2-5am so it might be a long night.
        Stay safe.

        Just saw that Tuscaloosa got hammered by a horrible tornado right in the heart of one of the busiest areas of town. 15 dead. Several of our friends homes destroyed but they are okay. My daughter's former elementary school and pre-school are destroyed. Don'tknow yet whether our former home or apartment were damaged or destroyed, but they were less than a mile from areas that were utterly destroyed.

        I am really, really afraid or tornadoes.

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        • #5
          Yeah what the hell is going on? Tornado warnings are getting old in Virginia.

          It's the end of the world as we know it! It's the end of the world as we know it! And I feel fine.
          "Nobody listens to Turtle."
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Parrot Head View Post
            These things just keep coming. We're bracing for more coming in from 2-5am so it might be a long night.
            That's crazy. Stay safe and hunker down.
            "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Parrot Head View Post
              These things just keep coming. We're bracing for more coming in from 2-5am so it might be a long night.
              I live about 5 miles away from Parrot Head, so I assume he is safe, but I woke up at about 3:30 this morning, amd there was a storm several miles away that was just producing a constant roll of thunder. It wasn't too loud, because of the distance, but there was just constant lightning and thunder with no break for quite a while. It was pretty cool, just a long, continuous rumble. It kept me up for a while as I made sure it wasn't getting any closer to me, but other than making the dog nervous, it did no harm in my area.

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              • #8
                We just took a vacation to North Carolina. We had the option of getting a beach house from Sat to Sat or Sun to Sun. If we had elected to go Sat to Sat, we would have ended up being caught up in the middle of those storms - because the time of day we would have been on the road would have coincided with the timing of the storms. As we drove through on Sunday, we saw destroyed homes and trees along Highway 70. Terrible stuff.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Indy Coug View Post
                  We just took a vacation to North Carolina. We had the option of getting a beach house from Sat to Sat or Sun to Sun. If we had elected to go Sat to Sat, we would have ended up being caught up in the middle of those storms - because the time of day we would have been on the road would have coincided with the timing of the storms. As we drove through on Sunday, we saw destroyed homes and trees along Highway 70. Terrible stuff.
                  You took a vacation to NC and didn't come visit the CUF Carolinas Chapter? I am a little hurt.

                  I was at the NC beach from the 19th to the 23rd. You weren't the family in the house next to us who kept throwing water balloons, were you?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
                    You took a vacation to NC and didn't come visit the CUF Carolinas Chapter? I am a little hurt.

                    I was at the NC beach from the 19th to the 23rd. You weren't the family in the house next to us who kept throwing water balloons, were you?
                    I was in an Emerald City duplex on the beach. We were the family that had to escort a kid back to the house every 23.4 seconds for a bathroom break.
                    Everything in life is an approximation.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Indy Coug View Post
                      I was in an Emerald City duplex on the beach. We were the family that had to escort a kid back to the house every 23.4 seconds for a bathroom break.
                      We were about 20 or 30 miles south of you.

                      Just teach your kid that that is what the ocean is for.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post
                        I live about 5 miles away from Parrot Head, so I assume he is safe, but I woke up at about 3:30 this morning, amd there was a storm several miles away that was just producing a constant roll of thunder. It wasn't too loud, because of the distance, but there was just constant lightning and thunder with no break for quite a while. It was pretty cool, just a long, continuous rumble. It kept me up for a while as I made sure it wasn't getting any closer to me, but other than making the dog nervous, it did no harm in my area.
                        We had the window open and somehow I still slept through everything. But, fortunately, there wasn't too much happening on the ground here.
                        I have nothing else to say at this time.

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