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JohnP
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Initially Posted - 04/28/2011 :  05:18:47  Show Profile
Tornadoes were sighted about 10 miles south of my town in Maryland, but I saw what happened when storms tore through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama last night.

Hope all our Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee sailors are safe!
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PCP777
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  08:35:51  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by JohnP</i>
<br />Tornadoes were sighted about 10 miles south of my town in Maryland, but I saw what happened when storms tore through Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Alabama last night.

Hope all our Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee sailors are safe!
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We've had twisters in the area every night with the exception of last night for the last couple weeks it seems.
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Prospector
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  10:45:16  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
No tornadoes here, but last week the neighbours house burnt down, and this morning a large willow tree fell across the power lines, caught fire, and blocked the road through our village. Fire, police, and power (hydro) came out to clean up the damage. No injuries, but quite the fire. Again. Neighbours are all asking "Who's next??"

All in all pretty harmless, but still an interesting diversion.
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PCP777
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  12:41:02  Show Profile
There are many videos from this link -

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...a-Alabama.html

death toll is towards 200. wow.
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DaveR
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  13:20:09  Show Profile  Visit DaveR's Homepage
Tragic Stuff, a lot of lives lost. I guess you're doing OK John?
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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  15:14:40  Show Profile
Very tragic. We haven't seen this sort of thing in Texas in quite a while. My college sweetheart was in the Wichita Falls tornado of '79. It was a 1+ mile wide F4, on the ground for 45 miles (it caused F5 level damage). She lost a couple of friends in that, at the Sikes Senter Mall, and went into panic mode every time a storm came.

We haven't seen one since Jarrell, I think....
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GaryB
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  18:27:02  Show Profile
A friend of mine was in the Wichita Falls tornado too. He was OK.

My boss has family and friends in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham. A couple of his relatives had trees fall on their houses doing a lot of damage. One of his college buddies lost the entire roof of his house and most everything else. He said his buddies pickup had dozens of shards of tree bark and splintered wood driven through the sidewalls of the tires on one side.
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 04/28/2011 :  18:37:19  Show Profile
Apparently Dixie Sailing Club on Lake Martin, south of Birmingham <s>took</s> may have taken a serious hit, or at least was close. There is serious damage across the lake from them.
We've got high water again here. I spent the day moving boats out of our dry storage pen, in anticipation of rising water, and we pulled several dinghy's out of the trees along the shore, along with the wheeled cradles they were sitting on at the water's edge. The water's supposed to come up another 4 ft. tonight and tomorrow. Summer pool is 490 and the Corps is going to keep the lake at 500 for up to 2 weeks. This means the walk ramp out to the docks will have the top of the handrail under water for that time, and we'll have to row/wade out to the docks, or the lake will be closed to recreational traffic.
Edit: Today the level is 498.30 and more rain is expected Sunday.
With the flooding we had in Nashville this same weekend a year ago, it topped out at 505.
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PCP777
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Response Posted - 04/29/2011 :  13:51:09  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dmpilc</i>
<br />Apparently Dixie Sailing Club on Lake Martin, south of Birmingham took a serious hit.
We've got high water again here. I spent the day moving boats out of our dry storage pen, in anticipation of rising water, and we pulled several dinghy's out of the trees along the shore, along with the wheeled cradles they were sitting on at the water's edge. The water's supposed to come up another 4 ft. tonight and tomorrow. Summer pool is 490 and the Corps is going to keep the lake at 500 for up to 2 weeks. This means the walk ramp out to the docks will have the top of the handrail under water for that time, and we'll have to row/wade out to the docks, or the lake will be closed to recreational traffic.
Edit: Today the level is 498.30 and more rain is expected Sunday.
With the flooding we had in Nashville this same weekend a year ago, it topped out at 505.
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Dang, give us some of that rain, even with the recent storms, the lake levels are low. Our issue has been storms and then days with too much wind. Right now it's 25 and up which kills my after work sailing plans.
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by PCP777</i>
<br />[quote]<i>Originally posted by dmpilc</i>
<br />Our issue has been storms and then days with too much wind. Right now it's 25 and up which kills my after work sailing plans.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Not much of a problem on the relative scale. I was born in NW Alabama--glad I'm not there.
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Joe Diver
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Response Posted - 04/30/2011 :  06:34:43  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by PCP777</i>Right now it's 25 and up which kills my after work sailing plans.
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No doubt. Seems like the wind is either on, or off. Yesterday's winds were steady 25+ with gusts to 45+....
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 04/30/2011 :  11:56:59  Show Profile
Photos from Lake Martin, AL (between Birmingham and Auburn):
http://www.lakemartin.com/Gallery/Photo.asp?GalleryID=026FE115-46C6-40A3-8FE3-3B6BD0419A7F&PhotoID=C2E7BCE6-39E6-433F-906B-E3621C7FF633

The link has over a hundred photos. At about #18 you really start to see the impact.
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