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wow, prayers going up for all concerned. Scary. Even to a Kansan it's scary!

rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> To make today's southeast weather news more interesting for you guys....
>
> The tornadoes that caused the deaths in Alabama were about 5 miles from
> Jody Buttram's house. Maybe she'll give details tomorrow. She's sitting
> dead center on tornado alley...they even have a road marker near the
> Bankhead forest to commemorate where a historic F-5 went through years
> ago. Jody has a bunker under her home modeled after a super nice house
> she'd always admired. That house disappeared last night, but the bunker
> saved them. Good thing it didn't hit her barn. I'm sure the stupid mule
> would have survived and that's what she'd have been stuck with.
>
> The storms in Jackson, Tennessee were about 5 miles from Marie Threadgill
> and my
>  nephew (whose sister Ashley competed down here) was in the bottom
> of that dorm that blew away at Union University. His dorm room, which was
> upstairs was gone after the tornado.
>
> It was absolutely crazy here this morning since it all hit right at time
> for the kids to arrive at school. We had parents abandoning their cars in
> the drop off line and ending up huddling in the principal's office
> watching the weather channel till it was over. My classroom is a portable
> and no way I was taking kids up to the "trailer park". I left my horses
> put up all day and this afternoon it was bright and sunny and it took
> leadropes to get them to leave the barn. They had decided they would just
> stay in there!
>
> This afternoon's storms looked like they were headed for Wesley Crowe's
> Million Pines ride location...
>
>
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