The Tennessee Tornado.

[Avaiojet]

Many don't know of the damage the tornado did in Tennessee.

Not as bad as the one in Nashville but serious damage and many injuries. Nashville had 25 deaths.

We had no power for two days and nights but I do have a generator. It did take a day to get the thing running. Internet was down for a week.

If you visit where I live you would have no idea there was ever a tornado, just small debris here and there. Take a narrow side street not far away and here's what you will see about 2,000 feet from the development we live in.

This area is really bad and many other areas were a total wipe out. Serious destruction still being cleared and evaluated.

I've never see such cooperation from citizens. Morning after many guys, thank goodness there's guys, they were already out clearing downed trees in roads with chain saws. There was heavy equipment everywhere used for larger trees and debris. They do this to make easier passage for the utility company field employees who worked night and day to bring back power. A time saver for them.

Much of the immediate volunteer work was also provided by business that remove trees.

There are still a few narrow side roads where police are not allowing passage. There's still a good deal of piled up trees and smaller debris from ruined homes to be removed.

I'm told tornadoes are extremely rare in this area of Tennessee.

[john e. holliday]

Yes it is that time of the year again.   Also it is something to see tornados in area they are noted for.  I know of one town in Kansas by the Oklahoma state line that does not exist any more.  Glad you are safe.

[Avaiojet]

Yes it is that time of the year again.   Also it is something to see tornados in area they are noted for.  I know of one town in Kansas by the Oklahoma state line that does not exist any more.  Glad you are safe.

Well thank you John.

The wife and I did experience tremendous winds, plus thunder and lightning. Carried on for a couple of hours.

There was a warning on TV.

I was told the tornado was on the ground for a distance of almost two miles.

Charles

[Steve Helmick]

When I was a kid, we lived in Winchester (South Central TN) when a tornado hit the next town over, Decherd. A few days later, ol' Dad loaded us all in the car and drove on over there to see what the haps was. Railroad locomotives off the track on their sides, flat cars and box cars also, and lumber all over town. It's a vision that still stays with me, and I don't want any of that! We've had a couple of small tornados here in WA in the last 20 years, and that's enough. Glad that you're safe, Charles.  Steve

[Dan McEntee]

I'm told tornadoes are extremely rare in this area of Tennessee.

    I don't know who told you that but if you ever paid any attention to national news broadcasts, you would know that tornadoes can happen anywhere. Think about it. You just moved into an area where cold air coming from the north converges with warm, moist air coming from the south. If you remember anything from your basic meteorology classes that is the basic recipe for a twister, and I ain't talking about the model airplane. They happen where they happen, often with little or no warning, and can be more destructive than a hurricane at times.
  A word of advise. If you see those TV warnings, or hear the warning sirens if they have any in your area (and you should be investigating if they do and when they test them) You had best take the best possible shelter that you possibly can. Wait until you see one rip through your area dropping softball sized icebergs that can chip concrete, and I am not kidding.
  Type at you later,
  Dan McEntee

[Brett Buck]

I've never see such cooperation from citizens. Morning after many guys, thank goodness there's guys, they were already out clearing downed trees in roads with chain saws. There was heavy equipment everywhere used for larger trees and debris. They do this to make easier passage for the utility company field employees who worked night and day to bring back power. A time saver for them.

Much of the immediate volunteer work was also provided by business that remove trees.

 

   After having been through a number of near-disasters (tornados and earthquakes - Wuhan flu doesn't even register, aside from the shredding of the constitution), you will find that the first week or so, and particularly the first few days, people will definitely rise to the occasion.  Only after it is become routine to they start reacting to the tragedy.

    Human beings are quite extraordinary, when they need to be.

I'm told tornadoes are extremely rare in this area of Tennessee.

      There's no part of Tennessee that is immune to tornados. It's not Kansas or Oklahoma, but much higher incidence than a lot of other places. This is about the right time of the year for it in the KY/TN/Ohio Valley. The Super Outbreak (one of the series of hundreds of tornados over about a 8-12 hour period hit my town in Kentucky) was in early April 1974. Later, the likely spots tend to move north. OK/KS/NE,Texas Panhandle, almost any time.

     It's not something you have to wait for in dread, you should generally be alert to it any afternoon it looks like thunderstorms, and they tend to overdo it on tornado watches, to the point you might start ignoring them.

     Brett

[Howard Rush]

We pulled a little tornado on Brett at the Golden State contest a couple of years ago.