We got hit with another tornado this morning
 

Well, I guess to be technical, they haven't yet said whether it was a tornado or straightline winds. I don't know that it matters what they call it, the end result is more fucked up shit.

Some of you may remember the first one we had this year.

I have no clue how this one ranks in terms of comparative damage, because I just got power back within the last 45 minutes or so, and I don't figure that the people running chain saws need me out there driving around.

From what I can glean, it hit about the same area as the last one, which is a few blocks from me. Flipped a trailer over somewhere, ripped the roof of the rural electric company, tree limbs through some houses, etc.

No one was hurt, thankfully.

For me, one of the saddest parts was that our park is fubar'ed. It's just a tiny thing, like our town, but it had some beautiful trees that were probably hundreds of years old. Here are a couple of pics ripped from a local paper:

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/park-1.jpg

http://www.xxxkinkypics.com/park-2.jpg

It tore the metal basketball goals down, etc.

Having had gone to bed about 4 a.m, I woke up when it was going through about 7:10 a.m. Registred that a storm was in progress, and that we had no power. Grabbed my cell phone to check the time, made sure that the manchild had left for work, and promptly went back to sleep.

So as usual, I was clueless. :winkwink:

Yikes that looks pretty bad :( I'm glad you and your family are ok. We had some bad weather here in NC last week..

:( hope everything gets back on track quickly!

Can you schedule some for my next visit to IN . . . early July please. Maybe tie it in with my fireworks show?

That would be pretty cool, mortars going off in a tornado.

Since Goodgirl practically lives at the North Pole, I will be willing to get that scheduled for you. I don't think we need another one down south. :winkwink:

be safe, at least until we meet Holly

Sucks. At least nobody was hurt though...

Works for me, I would prefer to not have to drive all the way to the South Pole.

I live in tornado country, too. Seems like every week we're under a watch or a warning.

Maybe I will do a donation thread to help pay for the extra alcohol we will need to forget about this terrible tragedy.

Baddog- do you have an Amex Black? I may ask you to start the donations off. We will send you extra special pictures of us drunk and making out. Or we might let you take the pictures. :Graucho

:bowdown

I was thinking of offering to take the pics for free . . . as long as you schedule it for when I am in that part of the country.

Yikes.. that looks bad.

glad all are ok, sorry about everything

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ouch not good :(

sorry to hear about that. Glad to know that you and your family are safe.