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So there have been a few tornados that have touched down around the area I live. I am over at my fiancée house now because he has a basement. My animals are with me except the frogs and fish. Since my curio disaster i no longer have all my Windstones out except a few special ones on my mantle. All my lil baby oriental dragons, Hannahs pyos, and Jen’s lab griffin, who seems to always be near the path of diaster. the mantle is in between two windows. My Windstones are not insured >< so I am nervous.
I feel your pain. >.>; The sirens keep going off here, too. I am dead tired of hiding in the basement on an almost daily basis! I have to admit, I took a couple of my Windstones down there with me, though…heh.
NOAA is already saying this is the worst outbreak of tornadoes since the late 70’s. Flooding is also a severe issue, the levee in southeast Missouri is broken in six different places.
Please be safe everyone. I live in IL, where it’s only been rainy and gray all day, but I am concerned for the people down south. This has been a lousy weather month for sure.
I live in Southern Illinois and I’m running out of options to get out of my county and get to work 40 miles away in Carbondale.
This is the tiny gallery of pictures I stopped to take on the way home today, complete with caption descriptions.
Tomorrow I’ll probably have to take a different road! (And there is a (voluntary, still) evacuation order for Cairo. The Ohio is licking at the top of the floodwall down there.
I’ve been tracking news and weather maps all afternoon and evening. My grandparents are with my uncle in Birmingham, so I’m very very worried. He texted that everything was okay. But theres another supercell about the hit the area on the same pathway as the last one took.
My significant other’s parents are north of birmingham near where a huge tornado just hit this evening. Theyre fine, but the town just a couple miles down the road (Fultondale) has buildings leveled.
Wow those flood pics are crazy. I live in a northern suburb of Chicago myself. It’s been raining a lot with some flooding by rivers and such, but nothing like what you’re experiencing in the southern part of the state.
My brother in the southern tier of NY (Binghamton area) got pounded with rain (his old garage and basement flooded out – his new garage which has his cars in it where he repairs things are fine in that). Their expected to get hit hard again tonight. Western NY has Tornado watches up again and there was a warning cell up west of Binghamton (Elmira area) earlier. My college town (2 hours from home, but an hour from where I work, which I’m at right now) had a tornado warning last night just north of downtown. It died off to a relative whimper by the time it got to me though. Still, another hit tonight. I have fraternity sisters at one of my collegiate chapters that I’m responsible for that are basically just watching funnel clouds form as they try to make the most of things. One did finish her 12 tone project for class and called it ‘Funnel Cloud’ though. 🙂
Everyone stay safe! Windstones are replaceable, but people aren’t!
I saw that about Cairo. >.>; My grandmother lives there. I called her to see what she wanted to do, and she’s going to stay in her house on the top floor (that would be 3 stories up). She’s already had seep water in her basement for the past week. If it’s a choice between breaking the Birds Point/New Madrid levee and flooding some farmland and letting Cairo (which is poor as dirt these days and basically a ghost of its former self, not to mention having an arsonist running wild for the past year or so) flood…she thinks they’ll let Cairo flood. =| It’s hard to say what will happen; the whole thing has turned into a huge controversy. Hopefully the next few days will be less horrible and the rivers will come down.
I live in the state of no real natural disasters lol. I don’t get anything exciting… once a few years, we get a serious flood on the roadways. Generally, our extent is “you can’t cross this wash or your car might get dragged away”. Coincidently, my house is surrounded by washes… there is no way to reach my house without going thru a wash or two.
My first car was actually flooded, later causing it to explode (literally) :,D And I’ve had to camp out on “high ground” before in my truck because I knew I couldn’t get home.I would think if you lived in a tornado state, wouldn’t you keep all your windstones in the basement?
Stay safe everyone and I hope the night stays quiet .
Flooding in this area of IL is the biggest problem so far . Not around here thankfully .I’ve got a great uncle who lives in Cairo too who won’t leave because he’s afraid the looters will carry off his house. And he’s probably right.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did let Cairo flood, unfortunately. What a mess.
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