re: Nasty tornado on the ground in Lee County, AL (Now rated EF4)

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I still remember after a tornado ripped through town and my neighborhood and my house all of the helicopters that would fly over head when I was out in the yard dealing with fallen trees,etc.

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Should've been in any part of EBR, Livingston, or Ascension Parishes in August 2016 during and after the flood. Helicopters were flying back and forth 24/7 rescuing people and assessing damage. It reminded me of the days after Katrina. Seems like the one constant in every disaster is the sound of helicopters overhead.

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Why are these things happening in "winter" time?

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February, March, and April in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia is like April, May, and June in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. If you went back in history you will find most of the really bad tornadoes in the SE hit in late winter and early spring. Most of the exceptions are the result of hurricanes making landfall.

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that is 1 dirty looking hook echo

put that radar image in the meteorology textbooks

I’m just getting to the area our site is in. GPS took us around ground zero, but we did turn on 51 going south, and they had the road closed going north on 51 into Beauregard. For good reason, I probably won’t be able to get eyes on the destruction.

NWS Birmingham
@NWSBirmingham
UPDATE - Eufaula tornado has been upgraded to an EF-2 (preliminary) #alwx

That was incredible

In other crazy weather news it is now sleeting

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That second picture is insane. With the way the brick is laying on the ground, it looks like the house literally blew from the inside out from the pressure. That's some scary, scary shite.

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Instant destruction. Got me wanting to dig a storm cellar. Found a pic of a shredded piece of sheet metal embedded in a tree.

Would suck if your vintage porn collection gets thrown all over the neighborhood

Surveying the damage after the 2014 EF4 that hit Louisville, MS was a horrifically interesting experience.

It's heading had it going southeast of Louisville, but as it arrived due South of the town, it turned and was tracking due North right for town. Luckily, at the last second, it turned back SE and clipped that side of town.

Killed either 9 or 12 people, I can't remember. The 1st pic is it approaching town taken from across a lake. The last two pics are on the SE side of town where it destroyed everything in its way- literally destroyed and wiped the neighborhoods and industrial area off the map- and also where it killed the majority of the people.

I saw phenomena that I didn't know was possible. Arriving on scene within minutes of the "all clear" from other storms, all we could do was stop for a minute and breathe. People crying for help, dogs wailing in the torn up woods, sirens, power lines popping, the smell of gas. Some tears came out for a brief couple of seconds, not gonna lie.

I knew several people who took a direct hit. One incredible (to me) story was from a girl who happened to be home visiting her folks. She, her brother and mother rode out a direct hit in their bathtub.

She said when they came out, the bathroom was the only standing room, and she wasn't lying, I saw it.

The first thing she saw as she came out of their safe space, looking across the bare slab where no house was left, was where her father's lacrosse rubber boots were sitting side by side at the back door after going turkey hunting that morning. Just a couple of hours before the storm hit, as her mother was coming in the door, she made a complaint of the boots "always being in the way during turkey season." Life's problems are relative to the day at hand I suppose, but I digress.

After setting eyes on the boots, she noticed something: one boot was still there, perfectly positioned as before, while the other was sucked into the darkness with the rest of their belongings. The only other remaining object was one of those rolling clothes hangers with ALL of the clothes still swinging in the wind. Crazy stuff, man.

Here's a pic of the monster as it was just entering the city limits; taken from across Lake Tiak-O'Khata. Several people I talked to and whom I know well said they never want to hear the noise that one of these makes again. They said it sounded demonic, satanic, evil, and a surety of their impending, violent and horrific death of they, their family, friends, town, pets and belongings. Some said it literally screamed like a mad possessed woman as it passed over. But hey, I'm relaying only what I was told;so don't shoot the messenger.



Below are the 2 pics looking back SW where it spared no person in it's way: after destroying a very nice, very well-to-do neighborhood, it destroyed a huge industrial operation, and then destroyed a ghetto neighborhood where the homes stood zero chance. No discrimination with these things.





Tornados are some scary mf'ers, and sometimes Dixie Alley doesn't get the respect it deserves (and respect it would rather opt out of altogether) by those outside of the region.