Rete

I know a good many of you live in North Carolina. Hope everyone is safe and your property unharmed by yesterday's tornado outside of Wilmington.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/11/1...her/index.html

anotherlimey

I was swept away to a world of flying monkeys on rollerskates, other than that I'm OK.

mandpete

The storm has just reached us and we are on a severe weather alert with a high chance of tornados until 6.00pm. Also on flash flood alert until tomorrow morning. I have to admit it is getting very, very windy outside. I love the way the weatherman frighten everyone to death. All after school programs schools have been cancelled and my daughter is adamant that we need to get into the basement just in case.

This town was hit by a tornado a couple of years ago, fortunately nobody was seriously injured but there was a huge amount of damage.

Rete

A tornado touched down on Tuesday night in Laurel, MS (Sumeral community) which is close to my daughter in Hattiesburg, MS. Sumeral is only five blocks away. I called her immediately on Wednesday morning when I learned of the damage there.

PS Just in time for my train ride home ;-(

mandpete

Yes - it'll be heading your way just in time for rush hour.

Jerseygirl

My husband's flying into EWR tomorrow I hope the airport will be open.

krizzy

Our Cape house lost its roof to a twister in 97....sometime the wind is so bad here its like sitting inside a washing machine...its been scary a few times...

mandpete

We had no damage in 2003 but the noise was deafening as it came through. Then listening to trees fall in the silence afterwards was quite eerie.

NC Penguin

The death toll in Columbus County is eight, according to what I heard on NPR on the drive home today.

Early this morning, maybe around 4.00am, what sounded like a tornado passed through my neighborhood. It woke me up. Tremendous winds and the rain beating down on the house like mad for about 30 minutes.

I don't think there was any damage to the house or yard.


NC Penguin