Tornado in my hood

[cuttingras]

Ok well. here it is.

At between 6 & 7 am this morning we were hit with either a tornado or a micro burst. They haven't told us yet... It went North to South. The North end of the town, where I live, in is like a war zone. I was on the west side of what ever it was. My house didn't sustain any damage, but my hubby's shed lost a metal panel on the lean-to part, some branches are down and my fence is crooked. I got lucky. There a bunch of houses that are unlivable. Some I couldn't get to cause the trees were all over the place. We didn't have as much damage because, when we bought the place we cut most of the old trees down. There were 6-80 year old Pines in my front yard and 5-50 yearr old pecan trees in the back. Had it not been for cutting them down, My house would certainly have taken a direct hit from any or all of them.

They finally put our power back on at 5-5:30, YEAH!!! I didn't lose anything in my tank, cause I went and got my boss's generator at 10am, so 4 hours without power. And my stupid little piece of junk "Backup" air pump didn't work at all. She had it from the last set of tornadoes. One hit all the trees in her yard and demolished a neighbors house but hers was untouched.

I got a bunch of pics while driving to my in laws to check on them so I'm putting in the link for kodakgallery.com, where I store pics...btw...good site

A very small town next to us, Kite, got pretty much blown off the map.

Oh yeah..I'm SUPPOSED to be in ATL setting up a job at the zoo right now...(wish I was there)

Kodakgallery.com*Slideshow

[bmshehan]

Sorry to hear about everything that went down, but it sounds like you came out all right. Glad you didn't lose anything, tank included! Hope everyone else is ok...

[missionsix66]

Damn gras! Got pretty lucky. Don't have to deal with anything nearly that bad here in Oregon except cold. Get to WORK! J/k glad everything has worked out.

[Bogie]

Good to hear that your power is back on Linda.

[cuttingras]

Me too Bogie...it get pretty nerve wracking when it goes out. That is the first time since I moved here!

Mission..I'll take that one day in 30 years, for a tornado...I hate the cold! Can't wait for December....Jamaica here I come baby...for two weeks this time.....

Thanks BMshehan! Yep, NO injuries! Amazing!

[baugherb]

Glad you and your tank are ok....

[Iraf]

glad you're alright, we had alot of people not far from me get killed by a tornado this weekend, i live smack in the middle of tornado alley so I know the anxiety they cause

[Otty]

Glad to hear you had no livestock loss and the family is fine.

[aquaboy]

Wow, lucky your boss has that generator

[R34dawn]

WOW! awesome I can't imagine what it was liked for yall, thank God you all are ok it looked
like and earthquake hit, really glad to know yall are ok though, nice pics! of not so nice scenery