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02-07-2008, 02:06 PM
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Location: Northern Arkansas
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TORNADO hit town tonight!!
A tornado just hit my town of Gassville, AR tonight. Over 100 homes have been destroyed, many of them just leveled. My sister in law and her family were in their mobile home at a big trailer park. Their Suburban was thrown into the side of the home and it was knocked over about 8 feet off it's foundation. They are all OK other than shaken up. Most of their stuff is gone. Most of the other homes in the park were totally demolished and at least 1 woman has died. They are using a nearby school as a shelter, and have evacuated the whole town (1500 people) because of downed power lines, and natural gas leaks. We're going to try to go to their house tomorrow to retrieve anything not ruined. That is, if the authorities let us in town. I'll have my camera to take pics. I'll keep you updated.
UPDATE: The authorities finally let us down there after lunch today. Thanks for everyones thoughts and kind words for everybody involved in this bad run of storms. Here are some pics of my in-laws home, and some others. Last edited by Myself; 02-08-2008 at 10:04 AM. Reason: add pics |
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02-07-2008, 02:08 PM
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Keep Your Nose Clean
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: California
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
We'll say a prayer for your family and community. Stay safe and alert.
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02-07-2008, 02:14 PM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
My prayers are with your family to get them thru this tough time
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02-07-2008, 02:18 PM
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KEEP ON TRUCKIN'
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Prayers sent!
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02-07-2008, 02:33 PM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Definitely prayers for you -
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02-07-2008, 03:53 PM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
I heard about this on the radio at work tonight,my prayers are with everyone in the town.
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02-07-2008, 10:15 PM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Our thoughts and prayers are with you and the rest of the community.
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02-07-2008, 10:15 PM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Being on this board has changed the way I hear the news each day - my FIRST thought this morning when hearing about the storms was, Lord, I hope noone on the board was in those areas... Then I changed it to a prayer for those who were. I've often thought of posting to see if everyone here was ok after hearing this type of bad news.
A word for all sent upstairs.
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02-07-2008, 11:28 PM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
keeping good thoughts for yall
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02-08-2008, 12:15 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
that same weather vein is just starting to smack us over here. A hard gust just blew my back door open, scared the crap out of me!
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02-08-2008, 01:21 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
I'll keep you all in my thoughts - sounds like a bad night for many!
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02-08-2008, 02:12 AM
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Firefighter
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Yeah it is a mess over there, I was over there last night helping with the search and rescue. It is amazing more people weren't killed.
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02-08-2008, 02:28 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
pics
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02-08-2008, 02:43 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone dealing with this crazy weather.We are getting ready for it here,hope its not as bad today as it was on Tuesday!
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02-08-2008, 02:45 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
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02-08-2008, 02:48 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
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02-08-2008, 03:02 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
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02-08-2008, 03:05 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
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02-08-2008, 04:14 AM
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Location: SoCal
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
That's terrible. Disasters like that really make think about what is important and how fragile things really are. Very humbling. We learned the hard way during the cali firestorm.
Last edited by crzngmychvy; 02-08-2008 at 04:15 AM. |
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02-08-2008, 10:13 AM
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Registered User
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Location: Northern Arkansas
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Thanks again for everybody's prayers and words of encouragement. Here are some more pics of the area we took.
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02-09-2008, 12:40 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Hey Karl, Ill Bet Your Glad Your Place Is Under The Hill? Glad Your Ok. Thought About Calling Yoall But Figured The Lines Were Down. Let Me Know If You Need Anything. Marvin
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02-09-2008, 12:46 AM
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Re: TORNADO hit town tonight!!
Was thinking about you when I watched the news last night. That's gonna take along time to get cleaned up and put back together - I can't believe how many people lost their lives from those storms, very tragic!
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