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rachels.haven
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Tonight was an unexpectedly traumatic for some of us.
We did NOT get hit by the tornadoes tonight that came through the area this evening. We lost power for about an hour and a half. No wind-zero. Light rain. Scary clouds. We had a basement party until the warnings expired. Then we had a candle party until our power came back on.
A tornado hit Springfield. Our pizza place 12 minutes away down on Memorial and Blackpatch is gone and so is part of Kroger and all of Springfield lost power. (We are Coopertown/Greenbrier) Cars got thrown around and some of them wound up on power lines. In videos people took long distance of the funnel there was no wind either. Unsettling.
My parents' double wide and all that were within are okay despite being in the path of a "large, particularly dangerous tornado", and it wasn't the one near us. My brother's city got hit worse than Springfield. He was over at my parents in Joelton so his wife could get some college work done at their apartment alone. She sounded shaken up. My brother and his prek daughter are trying to get home now. Apparently all the roads are blocked and people are just abandoning their cars and trying to walk home. The town is supposed to be heavily damaged.
Nine people dead in the area and now counting.
The men in the house are still metabolizing this new reality. Nobody's crying but you can tell things are not settled with them. I remember my first tornadoes and I think tomorrow will be traumatic for them tomorrow too and continuing on when we drive by the damage. I lived down south in TN and Arkansas until I was twelve so this is not great but not new. I think Mark knows why sometimes I wake up with tornado nightmares now (in which nobody's listening to me, but you know what? Everyone listened for the most part today!).
Not a post I expected to make this morning. I took goat pics. I don't feel like posting them now. Maybe later.
We did NOT get hit by the tornadoes tonight that came through the area this evening. We lost power for about an hour and a half. No wind-zero. Light rain. Scary clouds. We had a basement party until the warnings expired. Then we had a candle party until our power came back on.
A tornado hit Springfield. Our pizza place 12 minutes away down on Memorial and Blackpatch is gone and so is part of Kroger and all of Springfield lost power. (We are Coopertown/Greenbrier) Cars got thrown around and some of them wound up on power lines. In videos people took long distance of the funnel there was no wind either. Unsettling.
My parents' double wide and all that were within are okay despite being in the path of a "large, particularly dangerous tornado", and it wasn't the one near us. My brother's city got hit worse than Springfield. He was over at my parents in Joelton so his wife could get some college work done at their apartment alone. She sounded shaken up. My brother and his prek daughter are trying to get home now. Apparently all the roads are blocked and people are just abandoning their cars and trying to walk home. The town is supposed to be heavily damaged.
Nine people dead in the area and now counting.
The men in the house are still metabolizing this new reality. Nobody's crying but you can tell things are not settled with them. I remember my first tornadoes and I think tomorrow will be traumatic for them tomorrow too and continuing on when we drive by the damage. I lived down south in TN and Arkansas until I was twelve so this is not great but not new. I think Mark knows why sometimes I wake up with tornado nightmares now (in which nobody's listening to me, but you know what? Everyone listened for the most part today!).
Not a post I expected to make this morning. I took goat pics. I don't feel like posting them now. Maybe later.
