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[alfinyalcabo]

Glad to hear you are safe Spaldy,such a shame you missed that 96th minute penalty to Chelsea.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Now now Alfie

[wortleygirl]

So glad to hear you are safe and well Spaldy. I too have seen the drone footage and also the reports from ground level. It looks absolutely horrendous.

It must have been terrifying for everyone. I feel so sorry for the families of the dead and missing. I can't begin to imagine what they are going through.

Stay safe young man...oh and Orgs I didn't forget about you sweetie. Glad you're OK too. 😘😘

[Orgoner]

So glad to hear you are safe and well Spaldy. I too have seen the drone footage and also the reports from ground level. It looks absolutely horrendous.

It must have been terrifying for everyone. I feel so sorry for the families of the dead and missing. I can't begin to imagine what they are going through.

Stay safe young man...oh and Orgs I didn't forget about you sweetie. Glad you're OK too. 😘😘

A couple of branches doesn’t remotely compare to what Spaldy’s experienced.

Glad you still have your eye on proceedings though - it was all a bit grumpy drawers on here yesterday!

I hope those in the South are getting the help they need.

Take care everyone, you never know when, well, you know.

[Rev72]

Glad to hear you are safe Spaldy,such a shame you missed that 96th minute penalty to Chelsea.

Cnut

[Monaco_Totty]

Glad your ok Spaldy - Watched the the TV report by meteorologist Noah Bergren showing us the path of that unimaginable tornado, horrific.

Strong winds & waves often hit our French Brittany coastal homes but don't cause the damage you've witnessed.Not sure what structures your buildings are made out of and not sure if any structures can even be engineered to withstand such forces.Not sure how much warning you get but we get a warning siren if storms are due.

Strange & dangerous things nature throws up for sure, even when I go off shore windsurfing conditions can change so quickly & debris floating around appears from nowhere from different wind-direction streams.

Strange how dogs react - I've a trained therapy dog, accompanies me everywhere even to work & naturally reacts to any changes she 'senses in my bodies chemistry' and let's me know straight away which is so reassuring - so glad your all ok mate.

[hgatenasty]

220 mph winds not good, nothing like that in southern Spain.

[spaldy]

It's worse on the ground level than whatever you see. Basically no infrastructure or shelter left for a 1 mile swath through 200 miles or relatively rural or lightly populated areas. Cell is very spotty. I guess it ended up hitting four states but Kentucky got the worst. December is not a tornado month and they never stay on the ground for 200 miles. The people here are a very tight knit and resourceful group. They will do better than most "living off the grid". One of the really bad things for all of us not hit by the storm is that power is out for 10's of thousands of homes. Many of these hunt and fish for food and have large freezers that they stock for the year. That will be ruined because of the power being out for so long.

Thank you for the thoughts and prayers.

[Dalek_Sec]

Haven’t missed a game on the tube/pub since we were back in prem. Missed this one. Have a home near Mayfield Kentucky. A 140 mph tornado was on the ground 200 miles last night. Direct hit to the town. It’s basically gone. 50 dead and another 50 missing in a city of 10k.

Missed me by 10 miles. Hid in a closet for 30 minutes with my dog and a helmet on my head. Some videos on the web including a drone video. No power, water, cell or internet. Debris is everywhere. It was supposedly 30,000 ft in the atmosphere.

I think tornados are somewhat unique to North America but not sure.

Does sound like we gave them a game.

Hi Spaldy,

The UK gets on average 30 - 50 tornadoes per year - 2nd only on land mass to the Netherlands!!!!.
However, whilst these are tornadoes according to the definition, they are not in the scale of those experienced in the US.

When I was in the US for 2 weeks training a number of years ago and left in a hotel in Kansas for the middle weekend, on the Monday I was asked if anything of note happened over the weekend, I said "No - apart from the sky turned a strange shade of deep green on the Saturday and I threw a spider out of my bathroom into the corridor". My hosts said "Did you not go to the tornado shelter?" and I replied "What tornado shelter?" (as nobody had told me) - and when asked to describe the spider, they said that I should probably not have gone near it (what was it going to do inside a glass sealed with a piece of card?)

There were some terrible scenes depicted in the UK media, and one can only feel for those caught up in the situation.




Good to hear that you are safe.