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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 125028" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>We were very lucky in the part of Tennessee that I live in. We had a tremendous amount of rain but the wind wasn't too bad and I didn't see any damages in our area. My son works the night shift at a place two counties to the west of where I live. There were several tornados spotted heading right for the town where he works. He said that twice during his shift they sent everyone outside and they all got under two big semi trucks loaded with steel girders that were parked in their lot. And a house right across the street from where he works burned to the ground - they think from lightning. There were two waves of storms that hit and I called him after the first one to make sure he was OK. Then a few minutes later my power went out and stayed out for two hours and without the TV I didn't know what was going on. Really scary! Then when it came back on, I just couldn't stop watching the weather reports and had the TV on all night.</p><p> </p><p>There were really bad damages in other parts of the state and several people were killed. Somehow a big natural gas pipeline ruptured and caught on fire, with flames going up so high it could be seen in that whole part of the state! And to the west of us, they had a lot of damage in Memphis where walls of a shopping mall collapsed, and in Jackson at Union University where several students were trapped for a while after a dormitory was destroyed. I've heard different numbers on what the death toll was, but considering all that happened, it's a miracle that it wasn't higher! Who would ever imagine that this would happen in February ... but it was 72 degrees yesterday afternoon!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 125028, member: 1883"] We were very lucky in the part of Tennessee that I live in. We had a tremendous amount of rain but the wind wasn't too bad and I didn't see any damages in our area. My son works the night shift at a place two counties to the west of where I live. There were several tornados spotted heading right for the town where he works. He said that twice during his shift they sent everyone outside and they all got under two big semi trucks loaded with steel girders that were parked in their lot. And a house right across the street from where he works burned to the ground - they think from lightning. There were two waves of storms that hit and I called him after the first one to make sure he was OK. Then a few minutes later my power went out and stayed out for two hours and without the TV I didn't know what was going on. Really scary! Then when it came back on, I just couldn't stop watching the weather reports and had the TV on all night. There were really bad damages in other parts of the state and several people were killed. Somehow a big natural gas pipeline ruptured and caught on fire, with flames going up so high it could be seen in that whole part of the state! And to the west of us, they had a lot of damage in Memphis where walls of a shopping mall collapsed, and in Jackson at Union University where several students were trapped for a while after a dormitory was destroyed. I've heard different numbers on what the death toll was, but considering all that happened, it's a miracle that it wasn't higher! Who would ever imagine that this would happen in February ... but it was 72 degrees yesterday afternoon! [/QUOTE]
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