OT: Very OT - Are any of you guys watching the Weather Channel?

Glad you're alright, Bas. The previous neighbor's daughter drives truck with her boyfriend and they were on the border of TN and VA when the warnings came. They parked in the back of the truck stop lot with another truck, next to a brick building and decided that it might be safer in the cab than the building. They were right. The entire front row of trucks in the truck stop were picked up and tossed like toys. Her cab was lifted but dropped back down, and all the windows were blown out by debris. All 8 people in the building they decided against going into were dead. It took the third truck and flipped it upside down, but the driver survived. Her boyfriend's truck was sandblasted like hers by debris.

I hope you had your BOB (bug-out bag) filled with the necessities so you have food, water, flashlights, tent, a set of dry clothes, etc.

It's lucky that it's warmer now. Storms doing that much damage to property in the middle of winter would have been even worse.

Sending good wishes to all.

-- Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -- Howard Thurman

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Larry Jaques
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Oh my.

One of my wife's cow-orkers has family in Tuscaloosa. They had to literally dig out from under their house, and found their neighbor's bodies in the front yard.

A tornado in Winter? Of course it's warm, though after Wednesday night (when that front came through) it has been getting quite chilly at night (40s).

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krw

Got most of my utilities back today except for the phone. I almost feel guilty for having power, so many are without anything.

Death toll in Tuscaloosa is around 40 the last I heard, one bit of information that isn't being widely reported (I don;t think it is anyway) is that there are 400 missing, one can hope they are merely displaced.

I posted a pic over at ABPW of an encouraging act I saw today.

basilisk

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basilisk

Yeah. Grand, ain't it?

-- We're all here because we're not all there.

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Larry Jaques

snipped-for-privacy@invalid.com wrote in news:dohhz0bzrous.8wrw2xww99ov$. snipped-for-privacy@40tude.net:

Thanks for the picture. Lew said it most eloquently - the serenity of the foreground grass belies the tree destruction in the background.

Let's hope the missing found refuge with friends or relatives and that as power and communication is fully restored they will all "surface" ...

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Han

Yeah. Grand, ain't it?

You polish your fingernails? ;-0

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Leon

Of courth I do, thweetie. Just like Bugs Bunny. I breathe on them and then fold my fingers and buff the nails on my shirt fabric. (Bugs uses fur, BTW.)

-- We're all here because we're not all there.

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Larry Jaques

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