Southern Tornados

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Did anyone here live through this?

I was worried big-time about these monsters, but the Blue Ridge mountains calmed the storms down quite a bit. The NC foothills had an F-1 tornado to touch down, but nothing like the F-5s that hit the deep south.

God help the poor folks in those ravaged areas.

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Re: Southern Tornados

You know you can watch all the videos and view all the photos, but actually being there will completely blow your mind.

A few years ago, a tornado hit Enterprise, Alabama and some students lost their lives. I was working in education in the physical plant department at the time in a small school district in Iowa and the spirit or curiosity moved me to visit Enterprise and learn what I could from their experience. I ended up working a week with relief services. To see the devastation first hand is an experience that is hard to explain. It is truly a sobering experience.

A tornado will decimate a building and right next to it will be something hardly touched. When a tornado hits, it can steal your life. Everything you own, everything you have as keepsakes is gone in a twinkling of an eye. So many lives lost to this merciless beast.

Even after spending a week in Enterprise, I cannot imagine what has happened in the last few days in the South. Trying to envision what has gone on in Japan is totally beyond comprehension.

A small, thankfully no one was lost their lives, tornado hit the town I live in a few years ago. Everything as you know it stops working. Cellphones become useless. You can't drive from one part of town to another because of all the debris in the streets. Once the threat is over, the streets become clogged up with gawkers, people circling around town to view the damage. Although recently in the South, I don't think anyone was spared the damage and destruction.

I'm sure all of our hearts and thoughts go out to the folks working their way through this horrific disaster.