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Reade
02-06-2008, 03:55 PM
Here's hoping everyone made it through last nights storms or today if you are east of me.

We here in Jackson, TN were not so lucky. My house was spared any damage but go about a quarter of a mile down the road and things are bad, watch the news networks they all have reporters here. My wife and the neighbors wife actually watched the tornado go through the next sub division from our front porch. Her husband is a Lt. in the fire dept. and he spent all night pulling students from the dorms at Union Univ.

We actually drove around this morning mostly to check on a few friends that we hadn't heard from yet, and I think we were lucky. After it touched down at Union Univ. it seemed to bounce over whole neighborhoods, but where it did manage to touch down it totally demolished whatever was in front of it. There are houses with both front and back walls gone and some that only one wall was gone but it literally sucked everything out of them. It actually looks like someone went in and gutted these houses, it took everything including the drywall right off the studs. This is the fourth one I've been through in the last six years here in Jackson and you just never get used to the destruction.

Coach Owens
02-06-2008, 03:58 PM
This is why I love living on the west coast.

etothep
02-06-2008, 04:00 PM
This is why I love living on the west coast.

i leave pretty much due east of this guy and didnt hear anything about any storms :confused:

though it does look like it may rain sometime in the coming hrs

Reade
02-06-2008, 06:28 PM
here you go, you got lucky, it all died down by the time it got to your area.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/severe_weather

http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS01/80206021

http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS01/802060330/1002

http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS01/80206023/1002

asianinvasion
02-07-2008, 12:37 AM
This is why I love living on the west coast.

Yeah, all we get is all the rain and a yearly wind storm.

beerchaser
02-07-2008, 09:57 AM
The storms fell apart before they got to North Carolina, but I have seen tornado damage before and they can be devastating. At least with hurricanes you have some idea what's coming and have time to prepare. Tornadoes can spring up out of nowhere and have little or no warning time. I heard on the news there were fifty-some people dead from these storms.

MeetDaMets
02-08-2008, 10:02 AM
condolences to those hurt by this.

godspeed

beerchaser
02-09-2008, 12:40 AM
Part of the problem is global warming. The media (weatherpeople) and warning systems aren't used to having to deal with tornadoes in early February. Nor, the number of tornadoes that are now occurring. They are going to have to adjust their models fast or it will be really bad for people who live in these areas.

It has nothing to do with global warming or global cooling. Meteorologists can't "predict" tornadoes, period, because they usually spin up quickly and are gone within a matter or minutes, an hour at most. All the weather people can do is point to where they "think" is a good chance of an occurrence. Sometimes they get it right, and more power to them. But any claims to do more than that on their part is just ********.

As far as global warming causing tornadoes, that's ******** too. Ask the people who lived in the Dust Bowl in the 30's. Did global warming cause that? Ask the people who have lived in Kansas every year for the past 100 years. It's just part of what they have to deal with.

kcurrin
02-12-2008, 04:37 PM
I don't think it really has anything to do with global warming. The weather in Tennessee and surrounding states is extremely unpredictable. You'll be wearing shorts on Monday, and on Tuesday, you'll have to pull out a snowsuit.

Reade
02-12-2008, 09:53 PM
Yep, reached 60 degrees at 1:30 this afternoon and by 6:30 it was 29 degrees.