Well...not too long after I blogged last night we had a tornado warning issued...phone blared the warning and then the town warning siren went off. I headed downstairs and Woody didn't follow because the siren wasn't going off any more. It sounded and then stopped almost as soon as it started...but today I heard that perhaps our warning signal got blown down...not sure about that but would make sense as to why it stopped so suddenly. My friend across town said that their warning siren sounded throughout the entire time that we were under the warning. I have borrowed the pictures I am posting tonight from Kathy's Facebook page. She, Nathan, and some of the children drove around to see what had happened in the surrounding neighborhoods. Some of these pictures are just a few "blocks" from us. One subdivision not far from us had a tremendous amount of damage with downed trees...many of which didn't take the best path and clobbered houses rather than falling just into yards. There were a lot of driveways blocked by trees and/or power lines. There is still power outage around town due to so many snapped power poles. We on the other hand in our neighborhood had only a few branches down. And, then the other extreme...there is a subdivision on the other side of town that has been closed off to vehicles entering it...and a good many can't leave due to all the downed trees that have blocked driveways and roads and lots of damage to homes. We have a lot of friends who live in that area. Due to power outage, it hasn't been easy to get in touch with folk. I just got a call about one of our Sunday School members. She and her husband have a big mess to clean up but damage to their house was minimal...window breakage. Since we have lived in Tullahoma, this is the first time that I can remember a tornado actually touching down in Tullahoma...there have been some touch down in the outlying areas but not in town directly. So I guess we had excitement last night that can last for a good while...I choose quiet evenings! I was texting with Kathy when the main part of the storm went through here...we just heard a lot of wind and LOTS of hard rain about the time that it was wreaking havoc in other parts of town...and folks were hearing the ominous train sound of an actual tornado. Woody checked the rain gauge today and we got FOUR INCHES just last night! I guess last night's rain was a start to making up for our drought conditions. The Weather Service has said that our tornado was either an EF1 or EF2 with winds up to 105 mph. We are thankful that there were no lives lost in our community. Our day has been pretty calm and followed a usual Wednesday routine. School for me, grocery shopping for Woody, and work in the church library for me, and a four-mile walk for Woody. And, now we really are settling in for a calm evening!
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