How's all my brothers and sisters doing down there? Praying for you all.
I’m about 35 miles east of Joplin and the wind was insane. Almost blew us off of I-44 yesterday afternoon.My daughter lives in Joplin MO and they had 70 mph winds today. She works for one of the news stations down there and sent us video of some major trees down etc. praying for everyone as well!!
I know it’s a frightening situation but that is an awesome picture.My buddy lives in southern Iowa and had 2 within 5 miles of his house. Made it through unscathed, was def praying for him.
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@BTaylor looks like you were online this AM which is an encouraging sign?Anyone heard from BTaylor?
Glad you are OK. Tornadoes are crazy creatures. We had one level a house a couple of block away from us and not touch anything else. The house next door to it was totally fine. They were only a hundred or so feet apart. I definitely don’t enjoy that part of living where we do.It went south of us a couple miles. Little Rock, Jacksonville and Wynne got hit hard. I have been in a couple and worked recovery behind a couple more so I pay close attention when that sorta weather starts firing up. Where we live now is sort of odd. There is a consistent track and if a cell develops SW of us like the one Friday it either goes through LR or goes just north of us through the towns of Mayflower and Vilonia. The only thing that makes any sense to me is the geography just to our SW influences the track as it is getting here. We have had dozens of tornado's or warned storms come through since I moved here in 06 and so far they always shift and miss us by a couple miles one side or the other.
Our communities, like all tornado impacted places have lots of damage and could certainly benefit from prayers. With the timing, it is surprising there werent more deaths than there was.
I have seen the same thing. Knew a lady that lost a house in one that hit my home town years ago. After it past the only thing left on her lot was the slab, literally. There wasnt even any debris in the yard. Houses on both sides of hers were almost perfectly intact, lost a few shingles was about it but yards were full of debris. Looking at the path, it was like it bounced briefly just before it got to her house and came back down directly on her house and yard.Glad you are OK. Tornadoes are crazy creatures. We had one level a house a couple of block away from us and not touch anything else. The house next door to it was totally fine. They were only a hundred or so feet apart. I definitely don’t enjoy that part of living where we do.
Yeah it's bad over there. Have a friend over there that was in the path.I had to drive to Memphis for work by way of Wynne today and it's one of the worst I've seen stayed just on Highway 64 and the amount I saw it stayed on the ground is crazy. Very rough for those people and their families.