Hope she is found safe.

4/28/2011 11:26:38 AM

^ my friend told me they got 8inches of hail in west knoxville yesterday

4/28/2011 11:53:06 AM

Quote :

"any nightmares i have either consist of snakes or tornadoes, as well"

i had a bad dream involving tornadoes last night. I have these a lot.

a plane also crashed as a result of the tornado

4/28/2011 11:53:47 AM

That's fucked up. Glad I'm not flying

4/28/2011 11:54:23 AM

When I see this thread bumped, I always expect to see a storm brewing.

4/28/2011 11:54:54 AM

Lunak, they got it rough, bf's brother got baseball size hail smashing his car to bits.

We got about three inches here in areas.


We went exploring, looks like our neighborhood got the worst of it in the immediate area, you can smell the fresh wood, trees down everywhere, lines down, roofing and shizz.

Check out glade springs, va, really close to us, tractor trailers flipped over, one flew into a restaurant.

Vidya;

http://www.wcyb.com/video/27702465/index.html

4/28/2011 11:58:31 AM

4/28/2011 12:44:24 PM

In the future if anything happens to you Samwise, can I have Banana?

4/28/2011 12:57:36 PM

tornado warning for south of the border!

4/28/2011 12:59:32 PM

Tornadoes Today, Hot Tamale

4/28/2011 1:10:11 PM

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/videos-of-the-tuscaloosa-tornado

the first one (which i'm sure has been posted) has a guy about half way through standing in a mall parking lot filming the damn thing

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM. Reason : ,]

4/28/2011 1:11:01 PM

some people just aren't very smart.

4/28/2011 1:16:28 PM

all those in wilmington, get in the basement

4/28/2011 1:17:56 PM

4/28/2011 1:28:15 PM

it's gonna miss wilmington....

they may get some a little bit later though

4/28/2011 1:30:38 PM

Yeah, its just north of elizabeth town, heading NEish

4/28/2011 1:32:25 PM

time warner is making it sound like wilmington is getting ready to get pounded. my cruel intentions keeps getting interrupted

4/28/2011 1:33:50 PM

Quote :

"http://www.wcyb.com/video/27702465/index.html"

I know it's not the point of the video, but how does that chick have a broadcasting job? From the studio no less. She should swap jobs with the field reporter.

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM. Reason : -]

4/28/2011 1:37:48 PM

i would think Charleston would be in more immediate trouble

4/28/2011 1:39:05 PM

heavy rain in garner.



[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 1:39 PM. Reason : ]

4/28/2011 1:39:17 PM

I live in Wilmington and there is nothing really close to us. Right now there is a tornado north of us in the not so populated counties which our TV stations keep talking about. We might get hit later with good some stuff though.

4/28/2011 1:40:53 PM

^^ I live in clayton, and something you need to understand is that the radar images get distorted close to the tower, which is between garner and clayton. Consistantly the radar looks like it is gonna destroy us and nothing happens.

4/28/2011 1:42:35 PM

haha our local news station is a fucking joke.

4/28/2011 1:50:06 PM

hard rain and thunder in lizard lick!

4/28/2011 1:50:44 PM

Fuck that lightening was close. Radar isn't lying today.

4/28/2011 1:51:56 PM

dadgum Clinton turning into tornado alley 2.0

4/28/2011 2:04:22 PM

I've been waiting for this storm since 3 am and everytime green gets to me it disappears

4/28/2011 2:13:15 PM

I can definitely say our news team fucking rocks. James Spann saved lives yesterday. He was the guy on the livestream I put up

4/28/2011 3:20:29 PM

^ better than that crazy guy in tuscaloosa with the ipad

4/28/2011 3:29:06 PM

Ours were good interrupting us. The cbs station is what made us move to the basement but the news reporters on the fox channel/nbc succcccccccccccccccked

4/28/2011 3:42:51 PM

I think James Spann didn't take a break from early afternoon yesterday (maybe starting around 1 or 2?) until 3 am or something... and was talking to people at 7 am

not sure if many people have seen this video..

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47091


also, not sure if it has been mentioned here but the tornado that hit Tuscaloosa and Bham started in Mississippi and went all the way to Georgia - never stopped in Bama


and craptastic, I think esstover or bmel have dibs on Banana


this was an area in Bham: http://youtu.be/xzXqjh5shhI



Also, not sure if this is a long shot or not.... but there are volunteer opportunities. Here's one for Bham: http://www.handsonbirmingham.org/specialevents/viewSpecialEvent.php?_mode=eventDetail&_action=eventDetail&ixSpecialEvent=419

I'm sure they have tons all over the state, too

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 4:11 PM. Reason : .]

4/28/2011 4:06:59 PM

That's awesome. I'm sure it was an historic day he wanted to be a part of. Just the part I watched online while the tornado was heading towards you he seemed almost "excited" for lack of a better word. Not excited about the destruction or potential loss of life but the urgent need to let people know to hide. He was saying there were so many tornadoes on the ground that if you saw a storm coming at you on the radar you needed to find cover because it probably had a tornado.

I wonder if they'll do a movie about this day, I enjoyed twister. The science fascinates me.

Also, I wish the newscasters would be a little more considerate about the deaths around it instead of making it feel like just a number. One lady was like "someone was missing and we have reports they moved some rubble and there was the body upping the count to 16 now dead." I was like ugh gruesome.

Samwise, think you'll be able to see Obama tomorrow??




Washington county, VA basically across the street from us

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 4:27 PM. Reason : kuyt]

4/28/2011 4:20:16 PM

^^ looks like a damn bomb went off in that first link.

4/28/2011 4:26:29 PM

Weather channel says there is a tornado in atkinson, nc. GET DOWN NOW

anyone on tww there??

4/28/2011 4:32:18 PM

Wait, someone on here is seriously so fucking stupid that they're going to see douchebama?

There has yet to be a president I've felt compelled to waste my time on. Especially when it comes to fucking ego boosting his sorry politician ass.

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM. Reason : t]

4/28/2011 4:34:46 PM

From someone on americanwx:

the story out of the Rosedale projects in Tuscaloosa is nothing less than horrifying. EMS called in a cold storage unit because of all the bodies they found so far.

4/28/2011 4:37:29 PM

This town in GA is not allowing people downtown and have asked for mass cadaver assistance or something to that effect. Guy goes "what does this mean?" "Well, Bob, it means there is the potential for large numbers of injuries and possibly fatalities"

4/28/2011 4:39:28 PM

That's crazy about the bodies I think a lot of people were unprepared because it really did look like it was going to hit downtown.. then swerved

I didn't even Obama was going to be here... honestly, I have too much school stuff to worry about and I don't think I would want to hear him speak right now. I doubt he'll be doing hands on cleaning up and just making a blanket statement, sooooo.... yeah.

This picture was taken from where I go to school



Tuscaloosa shots






Random shots throughout Bama





This one is crazy... a double tornado




And I really don't want to spark a religious discussion, but this picture gave me chills



Someone found it in their yard

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 4:51 PM. Reason : gah, stay safe people ]

4/28/2011 4:50:41 PM

Tornado in Currituck and Wilmar!!! Get down people

SAWAHASH WHERE YOU AT?


Weather channel it's up to 280 Horrible.

4/28/2011 4:57:05 PM

sawahash is in Carteret Co.

Currituck is near the main part of OBX

but she does need to take cover... Craven, Pitt, Beaufort counties are all under tornado warnings probably will be near Carteret soon

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 5:01 PM. Reason : .]

4/28/2011 4:58:09 PM

Yeah, sawahash (and my family, who live in the town neighboring sawahash--well basically they're right next to each other) is way far away from that one.

I like the number of of "OMG TAKE COVERS!" on this page though.

4/28/2011 5:01:32 PM

Pretty much I just knew she lived on the beach.

Tornado on the beach would be insane.

4/28/2011 5:02:27 PM

I'm from Craven (originally from Carteret)


Havelock is about to get hit it looks like

4/28/2011 5:03:35 PM

<3 Pro-97

Stupid Tornados...It sounds like there was a tornado sighting in Washington, NC. I think it's moving NE away from Greenville/Winterville.

4/28/2011 5:16:23 PM

Quote :

"And I really don't want to spark a religious discussion, but this picture gave me chills"

Doesn't give me the slightest chill. God, if real, clearly hates them and wanted to say "fuck you" (Although you'd think an omniscient and omnipotent being could find a better way to "reveal itself"). The more likely scenario is that they were the one in a million person to get a shitty piece of paper with the word "god" written on it. Fuck, it might have even been done by some dipshit trying to convert people by throwing god paper in their yard.

[Edited on April 28, 2011 at 5:20 PM. Reason : t]

4/28/2011 5:19:38 PM

Probably half of someone writing GOD DAMN TORNADO right before their refrigerator crushed their family

4/28/2011 5:25:35 PM

this bad weather in Bladen has been stressing me out all day.

4/28/2011 5:54:11 PM

GOD IS NOT HERE TODAY

4/28/2011 6:05:30 PM

I talked to my friend about it and now I'm really pissed off


She was being cynical and saying, "I wonder if God left a note for the Japan or Haiti victims"

She went through Katrina in New Orleans and said people apparently started doing this shit to either a) prove a point or b) exploit victims or their families. She pointed out that Sharpies bleed in water...

I never saw it as a sign of "God's plan" or was trying to say God did this - I just thought it was crazy that a piece of paper was torn off and that part was salvaged. Now I'm wondering if it was some loon trying to prove a point.


I don't know.. I keep hearing people say that God is always in control, and all of that... but that to me is not uplifting at all. So, are they trying to say God controlled the tornadoes and decided to send lots of them into heavily populated areas? :\

4/28/2011 6:07:46 PM

Even as a Catholic, I have a trouble buying the "all loving, all powerfull God" bit because it doesn't make sense to me. I feel like if there was an all powerful all loving god that there wouldn't be so much suffering in the world, especially to innocent people.

4/28/2011 6:12:43 PM