Southeastern Storms (Finding BG Members too) (IC with internet!)

[Tahona]

Luckily auburn just got storms but hearing from my family in huntsville and friends in t town about how bad the devestation is there I'm just happy I've heard from all of them

[Pyro]

This was about five minutes from my house, also completely leveled a church that had just rebuilt it's steeple from a fire.

[Lebzile]

Live here in Vonore, Tennessee. Had 2 Funnel Clouds pretty much right next to my house last night.

[Akiyama]

Ouch. At least they didn't touch down, though.

[Lebzile]

Yeah, luckily for my family, but recently found out that a friend of the family lost his mother to the storms last night. He tried calling because he couldn't get ahold of her and after the storms they drove out to where her trailer was and it was not there. They finally found it with her inside. Feel so bad for him right now.

After these storms, I decided to get out of the Southeast entirely and move somewhere with less hazardous weather. Maybe I'll move somewhere where only weather I need to deal with is snow, like Alaska.

[Yuri-G]

so how long until I can admit I think this is pretty cool, aside from the property damage and loss of life (which in all fairness is a pretty big aside)?

I mean I can't be the only person in awe of severe weather like this. then again I'm the only person I know who wants to see a volcano erupt before I die and go through a severe earthquake. am I just weird?

no disrespect meant to anyone who is suffering through this. my heart goes out to you. especially you right above me whose friend's mother passed away, that's terrible.

[BWYuko]

While his friend's mother may have passed away...

Alaska is the safest place in the world and I shall thusly move there post-haste.

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Alaska provides its residents with more creative ways to get absolutely fucked than you'd probably care to know, so don't move there thinking you will escape nature's fury. Thankfully, America's free market has long ago deemed Los Angeles the safest place to hide from nature, as that is where they created Hollywood, smugness, and The Doors singing troupe. Just a helpful pointer before you make any brash, emotional decisions about your future based on the events of one night.

[TheTaru]

Also how often does VA actually have tornadoes? That seems extremely rare.

Maybe 1-3 at most per month during tornado season where I live. There was a funnel cloud right by my house yesterday, but I don't think it ever touched down.

[AoE]

Maybe 1-3 at most per month during tornado season where I live. There was a funnel cloud right by my house yesterday, but I don't think it ever touched down.

Maybe it was really the lochness monster trying to get about $3.50

In all seriousness, I love watching nature in action and watching some of the videos, I was completely sucked in after clicking on the play button.

Hope everyone on BG is ok though.

[Cantih]

Thankfully, America's free market has long ago deemed Los Angeles the safest place to hide from nature, as that is where they created Hollywood, smugness, and The Doors singing troupe. Just a helpful pointer before you make any brash, emotional decisions about your future based on the events of one night.

Note, we have earthquakes here too, and there is the possibility of a kind of off-shore event causing a tsunami. Then, outside of the heavily urbanized areas you have chances for nasty wildfires every year (and then mudslides when it actually rains).

There's sadly very few places that don't have some kind of frequent devastating natural disaster or harsh conditions. The north has snow, blizzards, and nasty cold, the southeast has hurricanes, the middle bit has tornadoes and floods, the southwest has asskicking heat.
Best bet, if you can take the rain, is the northwest with Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver. But they do have the Cascade Range volcanoes.

[Fievel]

Note, we have earthquakes here too, and there is the possibility of a kind of off-shore event causing a tsunami. Then, outside of the heavily urbanized areas you have chances for nasty wildfires every year (and then mudslides when it actually rains).

Seconding the wildfires part for sure, shit's been awful the past few years.

[altwight]

We had a tornado pass 3 miles north of us in the Elmore county. Took my aunt's new house and barn along with two of her horses with it.

My buddy's uncle was hit hardest as the tornado leveled the house completely and threw his aunt 500 yards away. She was in ICU last I heard.

I personally was outside during all of it except when the tornado was about 3miles north of me (was dark so couldn't see = run away like girl) Absolutely love bad weather.

Shit was whack though.

[Cantih]

I'm a bit worried that we haven't heard from Insanecyclone since about noon yesterday.

[AoE]

Fuuuuuuuuuuck I hope he's ok. I actually like the guy.

[Outlaw]

Wanted to post here. I live in east Tennessee. One of the super cells passed right over my area. There was no tornado with it as far as I know. I heard there were a few not far south of me though. It was still crazy here. Strong winds, continuous lighting and ear splitting thunder and baseball sized hail. I usually don't get scared by storms, even bad ones, but this one did it. Power has been out sense the first wave of storms yesterday but it came back on a hour ago. I talked to a couple people today though that said theirs came back for a little while then went back off. So idk if mine is gonna stay on or not. I'm just stunned at all the damage in Alabama and Mississippi. I don't think there have ever been this many tornados in the south have there? I have some relatives that live in northern Georgia too so I hope they are all ok.

Also, while looking at news reports and video over the past hour I came across this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ftr=cris...rnadoes_4_2011

Every one of those is a tornado.

[Boyiee]

Shit like this makes me love NJ, at least till that earthquake hits.

[FNH]

Tuscaloosa resident here using my phone since really can't do anything else. Insanecyclone is a resident of the holt community and it was utterly devastated as well. The funnel touched down about 10 mile from my work, we took cover and then watched it rip a path behind us. It ripped an al most mile wide path for 60 plus miles. Places I've. Known for years are gone and I can't even tell some were even there. So many dead missing and injured. Left work to help friends living on 15th street and couldn't get to them, got to a road and we were turned back because they were laying out the dead. Many with out power food and water. Those with water are advised to boil it. Luckily lots of help and volunteers. Many trying to volunteer had to go home because there were so many. Going out @ daylight for the chainsaw teams. Cell coverage shotty in some place few places have internet coverage. Many of my friends have grabbed what they could and went to their families in other counties, other people aren't as lucky.

[Cantih]

Shit

[Leashedragon]

Hope to hell he's alright. (I don't personally know him other than seeing him post here on the forums, but I do hope he's ok.)

Found this on TWC. Quoted the info from the article, but check out the >link< for the map you can scroll around.

A massive, deadly, perhaps even historic tornado outbreak unfolded over the South from Monday, April 25 to Wednesday, April 27. The preliminary tornado count over the three days, as of this writing, has totaled more than 250. Over 150 of these occurred on Wednesday.

Read Story: Record April - Severe Weather Scorecard
Read Story: Tornado Cuts Path of Destruction, Death Toll Rises

Below you'll find a clickable map outlining reports of tornadoes (red symbols) that have devastated parts of the South since Monday. Zoom and pan around on the map and click on the icons to reveal the storm report information.

I live in PA. This morning we had two confirmed touch downs. One I know of was an F1, not sure what the other was. Fortunately not where I live, but a county away. They're not included in the above article.

Tornados just aren't normal for us.. the last one I can honestly remember is Campbelltown back in 2004. It's a scarey thought to think of and two in one morning as a parting gift. Lots of wind damage, missing roofs, downed trees/lines and flooding everywhere else hit by the storms.

[Shraiden]

Hi..I know you guys don't know me, but I survived this.

I'm a student at the University of Alabama. Was in my dorm the entire time and luckily no damage was done to anything on campus. Roughly a mile south of campus is where the destruction starts..death toll is still climbing, last I heard was 160 in the state of Alabama and that was around noon. The emergency response teams are still unable to reach all the areas that were impacted..I wouldn't be surprised if that number doubled in the next day or so.

I've lost friends, and friends have lost family. It really has hit hard and it will be a while before life sees any resemblance of normalcy.

I do appreciate the concern you guys are showing. Any support is more than welcome and if you guys have any questions, feel free to ask me..I'll do what I can to pass on information.