Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

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Eleven fatalities in Missouri.

 

[Batman]

Our chunk of Mississippi was unscathed, but others were not as fortunate. Three dead after an EF-3 tornado hit near Tylertown, down toward the Louisiana state line.

3 killed during Mississippi tornado outbreak

This is a screen grab from that news report. Look at the trees that were just snapped in half.

 

[Neutral Corner]

 

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Eleven fatalities in Missouri.

At least 12 now.

 

[dixiehack]

That's the closest I've come to one of these beasts. Rode it out in my cellar and heard a pretty good roar and a transformer pop before the lights went out. Then I sat watching on my phone as James Spann told me a trailer park 3-4 blocks away took a direct hit. Now that I'm back in the house I can see blue lights everywhere looking out my bedroom window down the hill back into downtown. I have no business getting down there to see the extent of the damage and so I won't.

The Walmart three miles north also got hit and apparently trees are down and someone is trapped in a car on the interstate close by. I live one exit down from the NWS office and they wound up taking shelter and turning the controls over to the meteorologists in Georgia until it pashed.

But I'm ok.

 

[SixToe]

Glad you're ok, @dixiehack.

I've been through a few close calls like that and the definitely increase the pucker factor. We had one here about 5:30ish that was tracking for our neighborhood before dissipating.

 

[Chef2]

I have several relatives in the Dumas/Amarillo/Lubbock area.
Gusts over 100 down there on Friday……or as we call it in West KS……..just enough breeze to keep the bugs off.

 

[Driftwood]

And to pile on, there was a 3.0 earthquake in Mississippi in the middle of all that.

 

[Chef2]

72 car pileup
8 dead

https://www.kwch.com/2025/03/15/least-8-dead-over-55-vehicles-involved-pileup-i-70/

 

[Slacker]

72 car pileup
8 dead

https://www.kwch.com/2025/03/15/least-8-dead-over-55-vehicles-involved-pileup-i-70/

Geez ...

James said Goodland and Brewster firefighters are returning
to the crash site Saturday to "cut deceased people out of their vehicles."

 

[Chef2]

Yeah. I'm about 80 miles southeast of there. It was brutal.

 

[Neutral Corner]

That's the closest I've come to one of these beasts. Rode it out in my cellar and heard a pretty good roar and a transformer pop before the lights went out. Then I sat watching on my phone as James Spann told me a trailer park 3-4 blocks away took a direct hit. Now that I'm back in the house I can see blue lights everywhere looking out my bedroom window down the hill back into downtown. I have no business getting down there to see the extent of the damage and so I won't.

The Walmart three miles north also got hit and apparently trees are down and someone is trapped in a car on the interstate close by. I live one exit down from the NWS office and they wound up taking shelter and turning the controls over to the meteorologists in Georgia until it pashed.

But I'm ok.

Glad you came through safely. I joke a bit about tornadoes, but it's gallows humor. My sympathy to all who were hurt or took damage. We rode it out ok this time.