A little too close!!!
 

Tornado 3/4 of a mile wide just went through a couple miles from us. LOTS of damage.

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Where?

I hope everyone is ok. Where was this?

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Sorry......Little Rock Arkansas

Reporting massive fatalities, 100s of homes destroyed, I-40 completely shut down.

Crap, I have an aunt and cousins in that are so I'll have to see if they're alright! :confused:

Sorry to hear that. My heart goes out to all those affected.

Wow, glad to hear you're ok. It's been a mild tornado season thus far, but it only takes one hitting a populated area to get really nasty.

Thanks, we're OK.....over two hours on the ground, now in north west Arkansas. Extensive search and rescue going on throughout the state.

Glad you're ok and thanks for posting this. Just talked to my dad in Shreveport and his sister lives 4 miles from there (Mayflower?) and they are ok, just no power. This is such a devastating event that comes out of nowhere, the only thing I don't miss about that part of the country.

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Very glad to hear that. Mayflower got hit bad.....that first pic was taken in mayflower!

What devastation. Glad you're ok and I hope for the best for others.

Sun coming up right now and they are showing the damage on local tv. At least 16 dead as of now but they expect that number to rise when search and rescue are able to really see what happened.

123 mph wind reported and we probably had 70+ mph here.

Tornadoes DO NOT just come out of nowhere. They published in our local newspaper two days before the storm arrived that the storm was coming and the the time of day they would arrive. The TV weather-man was warning about it for over a week!

We watched the storm track all the way from out near Hawaii. We watched it pass through Arizona on the way here. It started building and got mean east of us. To not know the storm is coming requires one to deliberately not pay any attention to the weather.

I fell very sorry for all that lost lives and homes across the country. I heard there were over 100 tornadoes across the country.

RKT, man, close one. Glad everyone is OK. Hey, are you from social?

If you meant socal instead of social.....yes ;-)

If you did mean social.....no, I'm not very social ;-) ;-)

hahahahaha. Yes, its my mad typing skills.

Did you retired out there or what?

Sort of.

When my Dad passed away, my Mom came to live with us. She was originally from Hot Springs AR and we decided to get out of SoCal and move to AR so she could be with the family for the last part of her life. She had a couple heart attacks in Cal and the Dr told us it was "just a matter of time" and if we were going to move, do it now. She lived 7 years after hearing the Dr say that.
We are ready to leave AR. Not just because of Tornadoes. Lots of reasons. Wifey is waiting for an opening to come up in her company in another city/state and will transfer asap.

I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say.

Sorry to hear about your folks. Good for her that you and your wife are willing pick up and go. My wife and I would have done the same thing. I can't imagine the culture shock living there coming from LA. You were form the South Bay, PV or something?

For some reason, I always you were a young man in your late 30 or early 40s.

San Pedro.....It was a huge cultural adjustment on several different levels!

The general pace of life is much slower, which is a good thing, but some here just don't know how to shift out of first gear. You hire a contractor to do some work around the house and after a half a day they say "be back shortly" and they will return a week later!!

The redneck hillbilly confederate flag wavers are in full force here too. But there are total strangers that would and will do anything to help other total strangers.

My wife's parents still live in San Pedro and we would both like to be back closer to them, but not all the way back to LA....Maybe San Luis Obispo area or ???

And yes....I'm in my late 30s.....mentally but not physically!