Tornado Touching Ground in Downtown Pensacola

[kathydwells]

CNN says you all are in for a very bad weather day......y'all hang in there and batten down the hatches! I've been through a tornado (Huntsville, 1989 in the Winn Dixe Shopping Ctr - roof came off) and it's scary....keep us posted!

I am in Huntsville Bikermom (my hometown). I was living in Mobile at the time of the 1989 tornados, but my sister and brother were here. Thankfully, they were ok. I am glad you were.

I hope all of you will be safe today. We are expecting severe storms here this afternoon!!!!

 

[Bikermomof2]

Hey, Kathydwells! I am also from Huntsville (married into it - my husband grew up there and I lived there the last 20 yrs.). Where did you get the red T-shirt that hates "orange"???We're in TN now and he needs one to wear to work Fridays! I miss Hooterville!!!

 

[Uncle Timmy]

I am in Huntsville Bikermom (my hometown). I was living in Mobile at the time of the 1989 tornados, but my sister and brother were here. Thankfully, they were ok. I am glad you were.

I hope all of you will be safe today. We are expecting severe storms here this afternoon!!!!

I was away at college when the tornado came thru HSV in ’89 and had to spend a very scary 2 hours working the phones before I knew that my parents were OK.

The tornado came within a few blocks of their home and my Mom drove thru the path of the tornado on her way home from work. Fortunately, she arrived at the Airport-Whitesburg intersection probably 2 minutes after the tornado and was unhurt.

She stopped to help a woman who’s car had been thrown on top of an electrical transformer. The woman had no recollection of how she had got there. Scary.

 

[kathydwells]

Hey, Kathydwells! I am also from Huntsville (married into it - my husband grew up there and I lived there the last 20 yrs.). Where did you get the red T-shirt that hates "orange"???We're in TN now and he needs one to wear to work Fridays! I miss Hooterville!!!

Wow, small world. So did you hubby graduate high school in Huntsville? We moved to TN is 1980, and a host of other places, but I keep coming back "home". I won't leave again unless it is SoWal. ;-)

You can find the shirt at Bamastuff.com

 

[Indigo Jill]

Anyone else have to go pick up kids? What are you going to do? WAit it out or go soon? Here is the latest update from weahter.com for Santa Rosa Beach ...

BAY-COASTAL WALTON-WASHINGTON- 149 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR BAY...SOUTHERN WALTON AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES...
* UNTIL 245 PM CDT
AT 144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DE FUNIAK SPRINGS TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF SANTA ROSA BEACH...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... VERNON BY 235 PM CDT. UPPER GRAND LAGOON BY 240 PM CDT. PRETTY BAYOU BY 245 PM CDT.
WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WATERSPOUTS NEAR THE COAST...AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED FOR FURTHER WARNINGS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND ARE ALSO PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

 

[scooterbug44]

I don't like tornadoes when there is no basement to hide in!

Rethinking my plan to grill dinner.

 

[Bikermomof2]

Yes, husband graduated from HHS 1982...

.Uncletimmy : wondering if I know your mother???))) How weird ? I've heard that story many times re: car on transformer. We just recently moved from our home on Tannahill dr. to Oak Ridge , TN.

I'll bet basements are not common at the beach! Do you have crawlspace or interior room w/no windows? We had lots of warnings in Huntsville and we always put bike helmets on the kids and threw a mattress over ourselves or went under the house .....Picking up kids from school during is a mess!! you poor thing!!! Keep flashlights handy and cellphone on you. Power always goes first...Keep us posted!

 

[Miss Kitty]

Holy sheeet...I just walked home in this and I really thought I was going to get fried! Calming down now. Any bets on whether Mr. K spends the night in Dallas tonight? :shock:

 

[Bikermomof2]

Hey, Miss Kitty! One of the things I remember from my tornado experience was that there was LOTS of lightning everywhere right before it hit.....eeeekkkkk!!

 

[scooterbug44]

Look out for a green sky and hail - those are the major harbingers of doom!