re: Severe Weather 4/4-4/5 - severe storms ongoing from Arkansas to Michigan.

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watched a documentary on that pretty recently actually. That's crazy that Tanner Alabama got back to back F5s in such a short amount of time. Also, apparently Ted Fujita wanted to originally give the Xenia one an F6 which sounds absurd in hindsight but it must have been horrific. Tornadoes back then must have been a lot scarier as they would spin up seemingly out of nowhere, not so much advanced prediction technologies we have today.

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I've told the story here of my Pops and grandma on 4/3/74 standing in her back yard watching funnel clouds pass by. Two of those storms they watched were the Tanner tornadoes.

Thirty-seven years later he and his sister would stand on the same property and watch another storm bring another EF5 tornado to the Tanner area. I watched that same storm from Decatur just off the banks of the Tennessee River around 3-4 miles away. The whole sky seemed as though it was rotating. It crossed the river, took out the high tension TVA power poles, killed power to all of us in Decatur and elsewhere, then hit the same areas hit in 1974.

I have friends and know people who died in that storm. It was bad times.