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 Apr 04, 2006 @ 02:13:31 | #1 | shaggyjebus
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NEWBERN, Tenn. - Tornadoes shredded homes to their foundations, hail tore holes in the rooftops and high winds toppled even freight cars as a line of violent storms cut zigzagging paths of destruction that killed at least 27 people across the nation's midsection.
The worst damage from Sunday night's storms occurred along a 25-mile swath of rural western Tennessee, where 23 of the deaths occurred and state troopers using dogs searched for more victims amid the rubble of brick buildings and toppled trailers.
I live in Tennessee. I felt the storms pa** through my area, though it wasn't that bad where I live. There were very strong winds, terrifying lighting and thunder, and strong rain and hail. My house lost power from 9:30pm Sunday night to 1:30am Monday morning. My friend Selene's power was out until 6am Monday morning.
I know there are at least two other people here on TFS who live in Tennessee. Is there anything you'd like to say about the storm?
I have to say, I tried to keep telling myself that it was a normal storm, that there was no cause for alarm (I'm usually not scared at all during storms); however, because of the wind and hail I heard and all the lightening flashing and thunder cracking, I couldn't stop being a little worried.
It seems I had good cause to be worried.
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| Apr 04, 2006 @ 02:29:23 | #4 | paramour
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Join Date: Apr 2004 | I was driving across the bridge from Tennessee to Arkansas during that "severe storm". "Strong rain and hail" is an understatement. The crap was coming down so hard & sideways that I couldn't see a damned thing, except for the softball sized hail attacking my car. I really did not think I was going to make it across that bridge alive. 
This is, of course, after I call Brandon to ask him to check the weather in that direction because I happened to see some clouds that I really didn't care too much for. Oh, don't worry, it's to the southwest of where you're driving. Well, yes, until I turned onto I-40 and drove right through the crap. It was quite difficult keeping my car on the road, but unfortunately with all the construction and then the bridge, there wasn't anyplace to pull over. 
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| Apr 04, 2006 @ 02:32:16 | #5 | shaggyjebus
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Join Date: Mar 2005 | paramour said: I was driving across the bridge from Tennessee to Arkansas during that "severe storm". "Strong rain and hail" is an understatement. The crap was coming down so hard & sideways that I couldn't see a damned thing, except for the softball sized hail attacking my car. I really did not think I was going to make it across that bridge alive.
This is, of course, after I call Brandon to ask him to check the weather in that direction because I happened to see some clouds that I really didn't care too much for. Oh, don't worry, it's to the southwest of where you're driving. Well, yes, until I turned onto I-40 and drove right through the crap. It was quite difficult keeping my car on the road, but unfortunately with all the construction and then the bridge, there wasn't anyplace to pull over.
Glad you're okay!
Damn! 
I'm lucky I wasn't out in the weather. I was just sitting at home and trying to ignore it. I would have been scared out of my mind.
I didn't hear anything about this weather before it happened, but I don't watch the news. I've yet to find out if it was predicted or not.
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| Apr 04, 2006 @ 03:07:48 | #6 | paramour
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28/F/, Arkansas
Join Date: Apr 2004 | shaggyjebus said: Damn!
I'm lucky I wasn't out in the weather. I was just sitting at home and trying to ignore it. I would have been scared out of my mind.
I didn't hear anything about this weather before it happened, but I don't watch the news. I've yet to find out if it was predicted or not.
Yeppers, it was predicted. I kept hearing about it a few days before that, that it was expected. I was sitting in a restaurant at one location when power went out. Sat around for a while until it calmed down, so I could start my drive. Drove for some time. Stopped on the interstate for an hour due to a tornado that had hit some 20 minutes beforehand. Trees were downed, truck got turned over & dumped its load all over the interstate. Finally got to moving again, drove some more. Cleared up, nice & sunny. I should've known better. 
I stopped at a gas station. I went back outside and it was pouring down raining again. Sky looked like crappola! Drove, kept thinking about pulling over. Didn't and then couldn't.
After I got across the bridge, I quit counting at 30 . . . the number of trucks that were pulled off on the side of the road. I told myself I was going to pull over for a little bit to relax my fingers (from gripping the steering wheel  ), but everytime I did, the National Weather Service was breaking up the radio with another alert coming in my direction.
So, I spent the rest of the night trying to outrun storms. Oh, what fun! 
Don't get me wrong. I love storms, lightning, etc. Hell, last time tornados came through here, I was outside looking at the crap, but I don't enjoy DRIVING in them! Especially when there are other nitwits on the road who I can also plow into . . . or when I'm crossing large a** bridges that I really don't like to begin with, and then throw in conditions that don't allow me to see, but my hearing worked real well from being bombarded by hail.
Blah, anyway, there were a few tornados that came through northwest Arkansas last night as well. Town of Marmaduke was basically flattened and then a few other small towns where I've got some relatives were hit badly. "You know that store next to Wal-mart." Of course, you reply yeah. "Well, it's no longer there."
The storms that hit Arkansas were actually 3 separate systems that merged into one and caused all the problems. So, every now & again, the weather people get it right. But they claim stuff's going to happen or not happen so often and the opposite occurs that I don't really pay much attention to them anymore. Ah, well!
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