OT: Nutters in Path of Tornadoes!

[IndyGirl]

I'm ok here. There were 2 tornados reported north of me. Hail fell here this morning. We've had 2 rounds of strong thunderstorms. The tornado watch has expired for my locale but we're currently under a wind advisory for a few more hours because the wind gusts are so strong. I'm really lucky to have not been in the path of a tornado. I had my bike helmet next to me all day in case the tornado sirens had gone off. Such devastation in Southern Indiana. An entire town has been leveled. So sad.

[luna_virgo]

Things are calming down here now. I'll actually get some sleep tonight for a change. No damage near me, but Huntsville had several tornadoes. What a day.

[ltwoman]

Where is Divemistress??? Hello?

I haven't thought about the bike helmet. I will just keep one into my interior room (the downstairs bathroom, no tub).


It's going to be a long "summer"...

[Lynne]

Bike helmet is genius, Indy!

I am glad everyone is safe. I hope the rest of spring storm season is less eventful ...

[Divemistress of the Dark]

Sorry, folks! I was blabbing so much over on FB that I clean forgot to come here & post that we escaped the worst this time....tho at one point our house was directly in the path of what local news said was a confirmed funnel. I later found out it was a funnel that didn't quite touch down, so our number wasn't up the other day...I could've sworn I heard the unmistakable tornado sound at one point tho I was so freaked out it could've just been the insane hail or something.

That said, I'm exhausted. There's really nothing on the local news right now but devastation - two days before this last round an F2 hit about an hour east of here and killed a bunch of people. It's horrible and sad, but honestly I'm really trying not to look at lots of pictures of the damage b/c we have to get through four more months of frequent warnings - it can be as often as every other day or so in the springtime. I already know what these horrible storms can do and there's zip I can do about it, other than move out of here, so just trying to get my head together to sort of roll with it for another little while.

I gotta give a shoutout to the Nutters - at one point I was in my safe interior room, with only half a phone bar so I couldn't update any apps, and the signal on our TV went out - had no idea where exactly the storm was till I started getting texts from folks here with the info. It truly rocked.

Glad to hear others escaped the worst of it as well. Appreciate your thoughts and wellwishes. DD

[empty]

SO glad you and the other nutters are safe. And thank goodness for nutters!@

[ltwoman]

Yeah!

[moonstone]

Lovely to hear from you Dive and all you other nutters in the tornado areas of late.

Stay safe all of you.

Sneezing AND tornadoes Dive? That sucks!

[samburusunset]

Glad to hear all the Nutters are OK.
Heard about the town that was leveled. How horrible. It's just astounding what nature can do.

[63falcon]

Well, all was "blowed about" in Cincinnati proper, but yeah, this little town upriver, Moscow OH, got slammed. 1 death, terrible, but amazing only 1 after seeing pics. I ran a couple bags of heavy duty cleanup gear on Saturday aftn., one of the churches in Pt. Pleasant OH (abt. 1 mi or so from the town hit) was serving free hot meals to victims and first responders, plus collecting USABLE donations-its amazing what junk people will 'donate'-so they had blankets, bottled water, canned food, boxed cereal, bags of citrus fruit, etc..... a real nice amount. So, now the clean up for these folks, and THEN how do you pick up and get on w/ it......People do, but its one thing to help out and then go home-and then another when it IS your home. Oh, even a local group to help w/ pets affected, a good showing in this area so far.
There is a town south and east of here, West Liberty KY, that got direct hit, like those 2 towns in IN, and I think 20 deaths. Always, once the immediate effort dies down, there are the longer term needs. I have to think that is also the case in Japan and New Zealand, after those terrible earthquakes last Spring. I mean, a year later, and how are those folks doing? Right?
Thanks for all the checking in-glad to hear you were ok, Indygirl!