Here is a slideshow of photos showing some of the damage from last night’s tornadoes.
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=58754
We tried to go help with the cleanup but the police turned us away. We had taken our chainsaw and some large trash bins and big plastic bags with us in the truck, but they didn’t even want those. Oh well, we did try.
Evidently, Mrs. Williams was killed in her home from the storm making her roof blow half off and then it caved in on her. I don’t think she even knew what was happening. Mrs. Williams was my dad’s bookeeper for years and years until she retired about 8 years ago.
That was really sad news. I hope things get better today as people search for the missing and arrange for temporary housing for the victims.
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Really bad storms came through here last night. We woke up to find a lot of large tree limbs fallen in the yard. Thank goodness no real damage to our house or cars. The water runoff down our driveway eroded a huge ditch along the side of the concrete and on down the hill behind us. We’ll have to get out the shovels as soon as the mud dries out a little.
Some of our neighbors were not so lucky. A least one tornado came through here during the night and just half a mile from our house you can see a path of destruction as the twister took out several houses and sheds through that neighborhood. No one was killed or seriously hurt here, but the TV says that a lot of people throughout Alabama and Tennessee were killed or hurt and hundreds are homeless, including just about all the kids at the college in Jackson, TN because a tornado destroyed the dorms.
Very tough night for a lot of folks. This is when we must come together as a commuity and help each other get through this.
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