Hunker down time back East

[Jim Franklin]

How is everyone weathering the tornados and violent weather? Report in, please. I ask because I care.

[Jon Bemis]

Several tornado's have been reported around us. At this point a brother of one of our members lost his home, a sister of another member lost her home, and a sister of yet another member has had her home heavily damaged. All three of them live just across the border from us in eastern TN.

[Monte Butts]

Although several tornadoes popped up this afternoon and evening in our area here in North Mississippi during a day eerily similar to last years bad tornado day, the worst seems to be past and praise God there seems to be no major injuries or reports of damage on this side of the Alabama line. Had some very large hail close to my house but fortunately my house just had small hail, where 1/2 mile away on highway 30 in New Albany there was ping pong ball sized hail.

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[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

The farm I grew up on is right between the two Clark county Indiana towns we keep hearing about, Henryvillle and Marysville. The photos of the destruction are unbelievable.

[Marsha Lynn]

How is everyone weathering the tornados and violent weather? Report in, please. I ask because I care.

We had the warm humid air that triggers tornado alerts yesterday, and the local school sent the kids home early, but no tornadoes locally. Just high winds (40 mph) and a smattering of rain. It's sunny and much cooler here today with just a breeze.

Checking the news, it looks like the tornadoes hit around 80 miles southeast of us, just north of Louisville, Kentucky. My husband and I were in that area last spring for our anniversary and visited a beautiful garden. Fortunately, the school system over there that had heavy damage to every building had also sent their students home early.

The thing about tornadoes is that they destroy everything in their path but the path is only a mile or so wide and most twisters don't stay on the ground long so it's heavy but very localized damage. That leaves many, many resources available in the area to assist those who have suffered loss. When we had one go through our Amish community a few years ago, by the time they opened the roads to general traffic a week later there were already a couple of new houses standing in place of ones that had been destroyed -- a lack of red tape being a perk of not having homeowner's insurance. Still, that was a rural area. According to the reports, yesterday's storms took out a couple of small towns completely.

Marsha