Anyone have any tornados last night
My2Beauties wrote: I heard a lot of them touched down in Tennessee, I know one touched down in Kentucky here and we had some damage here in the city of Louisville, the touch-downs were in other counties though. I also heard Arkansas and Alabama got it a little bit. My dad said Huntsville was ok but about 40 miles away from them one touched down?
mom21kid2dogs replied: We didn't in Ohio but it honestly looks like we could get one any minute right now. The sky is totally black and it's windy as heck out there!!!
Calimama replied: I hope you guys don't get them.
luvmykids replied: DH was freaking out about it today......of course, that doesn't mean they're anywhere near him
grandma replied: My stepdad just told me 24 ppl died in TN from the tornados.....
A&A'smommy replied: one touched down about 20minutes from here, we had sirens going off at 5am
A&A'smommy replied: windy is good, when the wind stops is when you should be really worried!!!! I hope ya'll don't get any!!!
Calimama replied: I thought of you when I heard the news but I couldn't remember where you lived exactly.
I'm a little naive on tornado's. What do you do if a siren goes off? Does it sound different than like an ambulance siren?
A&A'smommy replied: oh yes it is definitely different.. do they not have sirens where you live? they suppose to test ours about once a month but they don't When they go off your suppose to go seek shelter but ours go off when there is a funnel cloud ABOUT to touch down in our WHOLE county usually we get Alyssa moved and we check to see where the funnel formation has been spotted and then we "watch" the weather from a window if the wind stops then one of us makes sure that are in our "safe" spot... probably not the smartest but honestly they will set the siren off as soon as there is warning at the very south end tip of our county no need in sitting in a closet for an hour while waiting on the warning to turn back into a watch
Calimama replied: Oh wow that's serious stuff!
I've never heard a siren ever. When I lived in Texas and we had hurricanes we had that beeping alert noise on the tv and then here in CA I haven't heard anything.
luvmykids replied: I'm naieve too, I only think of Oklahoma when I think of tornado
Glad you guys are safe and sound
Calimama replied: What does NM get? Not earthquakes.. not tornadoes.. not hurricanes right??
A&A'smommy replied: you would be surprised, last month we had one touch down right outside of town like literally 5minutes outside of town.. but that happens ALL the time they RARELY come inside of our town because we are surrounded by rivers and they usually wont jump the river in 2006 we had one touch down on the inside of town and jump around made a HORRIBLE mess this was right after thanksgiving it was sad lots of people lost their homes.
In tuscaloosa the town were dana and I go to the dr at they have tornados so often they have been called tornado alley.. you never go to ttown on a stormy day
luvmykids replied: Nothing, really, one of the reasons I love it In the mountains, lots of snow...my FIL has five ft drifts and hasn't been able to get out for a week, but thats really it. No natural disasters or catastrophies.
Calimama replied: Well then hellloooooooooo future neighbor!
Oh wait you're getting ready to move!
luvmykids replied: Not if I can help it The more stories DH tells me the more I'm trying to figure out a different plan
grapfruit replied: No, actually that's a myth! It's complete CHANCE that your city hasn't been hit in recent memory.
Think of it like this. You have a large piece of paper, draw 2 or 3 small circles on the paper. The circles are the cities, the "open paper" represents "open land". Where is a tornado statistically more likely to "hit"? A city or an open plot of land. Probably an open area of land b/c there's more of it. It's all chance.
Here's a link: Tornado Myths
The Tornado Project Online Click on the link at the top that says "Tornado Myths" (3rd row from the "tornado shaped" menu at the top, last on the right) and read Myth #2.
Just never let it lull you into a false sense of security.
sparkys2boys replied: OK.. I have questions to now.. we dsont have bad weather like that here.. soo.. what is your safe spot? And what is your rountine or plan if one was to touch down close to you?
MommyToAshley replied: I thought about you last night too.
We had the same storm system that produced the tornados come through here, but we didn't have any touch down. We were on a tornado watch though... and it was a icky storm.
I'm glad you all are safe.
Sarah&Mackenzie replied: When our sirens go off we usually listen to the weather radio to see where it has been spotted. If it is close to us we go to the basement. When I was younger we had a tornado hit our town and it put a tree on top of the grade school. Mostly though around here we have a lot of micro burts. BTW I live in Illinois.
lisar replied: Where I am I have been here for 28 years... And we have 1 major one touch down.
I hope everyone is safe and okay.
My2Beauties replied: I'm so glad to here everyone is ok, I know a couple of folks lived in TN and AL and some southern states that were hit.
Kentuckychick replied: I would have answered earlier but this is my first time back online since our power came back on this morning. It was SOOOO cold in our house!
There were tornadoes in Lexington but I haven't heard where yet. Those storms were insane. Our subdivision was the hardest hit in Lexington and there's definitely a ton of damage. If I didn't think it wasn't one (we never heard the classic train sound) I would have sworn there had been a tornado. This was all caused apparently by the hurricane force winds. We were extremely lucky that our street seemed to be the one and only in our area that didn't suffer massive damage. The streets running parallel to ours lost a ton of trees... at least 10 completely uprooted and two of those fell directly on the houses. There were two cars crushed on the same street and in the new subdivision next to ours a whole row of house had parts of their roofs torn off.
I've definitely never seen anything like it.
I hope you are all safe!
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