Tornadoes in Arkansas and Tennessee
 

I have friends and relatives not far from the destruction. Pray for these families.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30146711/

I should have made this Tornadoes in Kentucky and Tennessee for today! The Mena, Arkansas tornado was yesterday.

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Praying.

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Here is more news about the tornadoes:

http://www.wsmv.com/weather/19146520/detail.html

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This is where CC1 lives; I hope he and his family are ok. My son goes to school here too, but I talked to him and they think it has finally all passed over. He said about 3 tornadoes touched down there in Murfreesboro, but none right near the college. They did a lot of damage to homes though. He's on his way home now - about 3 hours away.

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I was thinking your son was in Murfreesboro from reading your posts. So glad he is safe. I hope CC1 and his family are safe, too.

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Zac just called and said that he'd heard that nine people had died in the M'boro area, but I haven't seen that on the news, so that may just be rumors. He said the destruction is BAD.

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My daughter lives in Murfreesboro, and a tornado touched down two blocks from her home! Her and my grandson were hunkered down in a closet! She said that it may be the scariest storm she's ever witnessed!

Thanks God she is OK!

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I didn't realize your daughter lived there! Thank goodness all of our kids are ok.

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My son-in-law owns two restaurants in Murfreesboro:
Five Senses
Tomato Tomato (Pizza)

My daughter went to MTSU (still does!) and never left the city!

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I'll have to ask Zac if he's been to those restaurants. Are they close to the campus?

Do you have any way to call CC1 and check on him? I lost his number when my phone died.

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Tornado touched down in the Eubank area. Nearest town to us here. Getting reports of damage now on the Lexington Channel. Thank God for sparing us again.

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I've been through two bad tornadoes - one in Adamsville, TN where I took my kids and ran over to Tamor's basement and spent the whole night there with her and her kids. The second one a few years ago here in Jackson.

They are absolutely the scariest things I've ever been through. I don't know how people who don't know the Lord make it through stuff like that!

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I am trying to think where is mena, Arkansas? Heard 3 were killed from there.

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Are you close to Winchester?

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I just left a message with CC1 - hope all is well.

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Have close friends in Murfreesboro, thank God they are OK, and so far no one from the church has had damage.

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CC1 is okay and I couldn't get him because Mr. Steinway was on the phone w/him! LOL!

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thank God for His protecting hand...

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Good!!! I was hoping someone could call him.

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CC1 and family are ok although my SIL and myself were chased by a funnel cloud / tornado up and down a dead end road! LOL!!!

We knew there were severe thunderstorms all day today and a tornado watch over a broad area of seven or eight counties around where I live but it actually was barely raining when we left my house to go look at some real estate about four miles away down a country highway.

The house and property we went to look at was down a dead end road. As we were sitting in the driveway looking at the house it suddenly started hailing with hail larger than marbles but smaller than golf balls. That only listed a couple of minutes and I thought we ought to head home.

As we headed back toward the highway directly ahead a funnel cloud started coming down and almost touched the ground then went back up. I kept driving toward it until I realized there was no way I could reach the highway safely to get away. When it came down the second time and almost touched the ground in front of us as bad as I hated to turn around and go down a dead end road I did as it was my best option.

This goofy funnel cloud chased us up and down the two miles or so of this road until finally it moved over to the side of us and allowed me to gun the engine and race toward the highway. As I was doing so my son in law saw it finally set down behind some trees and a lot of debris was thrown up in the air. We don't know if the debris was just trees or trees and houses.

Once we got to the highway we only got about half a mile down it before the way was strewn with tree branches and a large tree had been uprooted and was blocking both lanes of the highway.

I turned around and took the first turn away from the funnel cloud and took the long way home. When I got home found out that a funnel cloud had been over our home but did not touch down. My wife, daughter, and granddaughter had been huddled in a closet. Three houses down the wind did knock over a tree in a neighbors yard but thankfully it fell just short of hitting the home.

Thank the Lord my family is safe. Sadly two people lost their lives in my town this afternoon in this storm and some houses and businesses were destroyed or damaged.

I have been told that a tornado crossed IH24 in my town and had blown cars upside down, etc. That must have been incredibly frightening for those folks.

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CC1 when you called me back - Philly was calling me - -when I called him back - Mr. Steinway was on that call too - - lol!

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Wonderful to belong to such a caring family called AFF...

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:nahnah

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Too funny!

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Its about 70 miles from here.

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Thanks!

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Glad all of our friends in "tornado alley" are safe and sound. I got in touch with a former roommate of mine that lives in Murfreesboro and she is OK,also.

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I'm grateful to hear that all of you are safe and sound. Thank God for sparing my friends.

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It is good to know all are safe.

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I'm glad all of our dear TN. folks are ok.

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I just found out that the two people killed by a tornado in my town were a mother and her 3 month old baby girl. I don't know them but I know their family is in a lot of pain tonight so please pray for them.

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I'm sorry to hear the tragic news.

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Is this the start of tornado season, & do they feel it will be a bad one?

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Ron's it's usually the worst part of tornado season here and in Oklahoma in April and May. The afternoon heating often helps to feed the super cells as they form.

The town in Arkansas, Mena, is about an hour due south of me. I watched that cell on the radar come in from eastern Oklahoma on TV. It was the southernmost tip of the cell and that's where a lot of the tornado's form. The weather guy said it had 3 inch hail and 100mph wins before it got to the Arkansas line and I just had a sick feeling my stomach. I told my wife at the time that it was probably going to spin a tornado.

An hour later I was talking to a friend of mine who was driving through Mena at the time and he told me it was going to be really bad. He felt like he was lucky to be alive after going through the wind and hail and seeing the electric lines snapped.

Some of the pictures today have been amazing with houses lifted off of their foundation and buses and huge RV's flipped like toy cars.

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The UPC in Mena is located toward the west side of town, which was "part" of the area of quite a bit of damage. If anyone has any information on the church, I would love to know. I used to visit during the short time I lived there. I hope everyone's okay. The pastor and his wife were also living in an area near downtown. Again, I hope everyone is okay.

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Is that your picture? ha...