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Location: Tennessee | Some hairy action for you folks ... please check in and let us know how you all are doing. I'm thinking positive thoughts for you ... |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I'm going to get in touch with Tim if possible: my folks are ok as much as can find out so far...its a mess...many injured...one of the tornados went right between the two main piers at the Norfolk Navel Base...I'll update as I find out more... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tim was on another thread saying one touched down a mile from him. His guitars are OK. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | We're fine here, some down trees in the neighborhood. Lost power and tv a couple times but it was all back up within the hour. Little town of Driver about a mile away appears to have had a touchdown into a couple of stores and they were destroyed. Schools are all closed this morning and several neighborhoods have curfews in effect. Super-quick moving storm system, only got about a 2 minute warning before all heck broke loose. Fortunately no reports of any killed by the storms, just lots of glass & flying debris reported injures.
Thanks for checking on us Bobbo :D |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Just got off the phone with Tim: glad to hear the family is ok there...he's on his way to work. Still don't know about my friends and their music store...unuasual for storms of this magnitude in SE VA...we had a thunderstorm at midnight w/pea sized hail...it's spring! |
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Location: Vernon CT | Glad to hear Tim is well. Hope any others members out there are also fine. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Glad Tim is OK. Mike I hope your friends are also. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Geez Tim..
Katrina takes out a boatload of your guitars and now you have front row seats to a tornado.
You'd better be careful. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | glad that you're ok, i hope noone got hurt seriously.
i have a tornado related question: how does "solid" built houses do in such a conditions? i mean, houses built of bricks not from prefabricated materials. tornadoes are starting to show up here more often and i wonder if those extensive damage is related to built materials of houses or there is no difference if house is built from bricks, wood etc.
sorry for OT but it was bothering me for some time. |
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Location: NJ | A brick or block house WILL fair better, but you CAN still lose a roof . . . |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | and all the windows and doors and everything inside that will fit through the openings. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Also, opening the windows in each room is suppose to help keep the house from (exploding-imploding?) if it's a nearby pass.
Slipkid,
Yep, dodging hurricane in the Gulf, tsunami and earthquakes in Hawaii and now tornado's in Viginia. Guess we could head for California and just deal with wildfires, mudslides and earthquakes or maybe Michigan to freeze my cajonas off.
The funnel cloud passed right over us yesterday after touching down but the bottom of circulation was already climbing back skywards and at least a thousand feet up. It was loud though and we had a lot of light debris rain down on the house and yard.
I figure when the fella upstairs pulls your guitar cord outta the amp...your finished playing regardless of where you tote your gear :) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Tim in Tidewater:
I figure when the fella upstairs pulls your guitar cord outta the amp...your finished playing regardless of where you tote your gear :) Ya forgot the harps...  |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | it's hard to me to imagine how my house could implode, but i haven't seen tornado in my life (and i hope i won't see). My house is 150 years old, with ground floor material is basically stone and 1st and 2nd floor is built from bricks. Walls are 2 feet (0,7m) wide... i'm just kind of scared that everything i used to see on movies came here. we had about 6 tornadoes last year and this year we had 3 and it's only april! ' |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Look at the bright side of getting caught up in a tornado. If you're not adverse to walking, flying monkeys and strange characters, maybe they're offering some terrific deals on guitars in Oz. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Tornados are amazingly scary things. I lived in the Midwest for 25 years, including 6 in Kansas and only saw one, but I didn't see that one touch down. |
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SE Virginia brethren -- You OK?