Tony: I should have attached my answer to the panfishing group here as well, but I read my other email acct first before reading the G-mail acct here. Thanks a lot, Chuck
“Tony: God spared us all as well although an F-1 (wind speed was 107 mph), about 5-6 miles from us. Pretty scary when you’re in a mobile home and can actually hear the thing that far away. Six miles seems like a long was off, but like I said, when you’re praying that hard the thing keeps South of us as thankfully it did. We (Alabama, Tennessee,and Georgia) did lose at least 11 lives unfortunately. Here at the house I measured gusts up to 54mph. Thank God I recently, FINALLY, got around to putting the anchors in the ground on this place or it might be upside down right now, as we could feel it shake a cpl times which was pretty scary to say the least. The community did just open a new community tornado shelter at the firehouse just up the road, but when I get that nervous, I get a VERY, VERY, overactive bladder, and although the place is “stubbed in” for a restroom every 5 minutes, I couldn’t risk the lives of the others in there to walk through that weather (and lightening was the worse I can remember in yrs at well over 200 strike per 15 minutes I think is how they measure it, per 10 sq. mile area or something like that.) 100ft to the old firehouse to use the restroom every 5 minutes. Plus, my wife, (hardheaded like her husband LOL as even Microsoft would have understood her being late as her part of the company alone has over 700 X-Box phone techs) INSISTED she not miss work this morning at 8am, so s came through right after that, and if I had time, I had every blanket we own on standby and hoped I had enough time to just get us under them and pray to God that we made it. The other reason I rode it out here, and this may sound stupid to NON animal lovers or whatever, but the new community shelter won’t allow pets as some ppl are very allergic, so I can understand that as I knew of a woman who was sooo allergic to dog hair she DIED from anaphylactic shock. But after losing my beloved 15 yr old dog Peanut just about a week ago, (who, would shake like a leaf and NEVER leave my side if she heard a roll of thunder, a gunshot, or firecracker) I couldn’t bear to leave my other two dogs and 10 day old puppy alone, as they are Chihuahua/ Jack Russell mixes, and they are DEATHLY afraid of thunder and lightening and they were literally boring their way under and behind us on the couch LOL (can’t say as I blame em, as I was ready to bore a hole through the floor or something myself. Anyway, it gave me new incentive to finish the little 6’ X’ 6’ X 6’ storm shelter I started digging out a hillside out back that faces the East. It’s been so wet, the 2-3ft deep hole I dig (hand dig) last Summer has been half filled with water lately, so it’s impossible to work on right now, but I WILL finish it this season God willing. Hope everybody else made it OK, as I noticed around 2am this morning on the radar that that same band of storms reached from the FL panhandle, all the way North into Canada, and had to be at least 2,000 miles long. Hopefully the farther North it went, the dew points stayed below the magic tornado spawning 65 degrees (ours stayed between 69-70 here) and they just got a bunch of rain. Oh, and one more blessing we had. They were predicting hailstones here between baseball and SOFTBALL size, but I never heard over a few tiny bits of hail hit the roof, so in the end, just rattled nerves, and a few things blown around the yard. I know one thing, I got caught up on my prayer life for sure last night, although I’m ashamed to type that as it should take something like this to make a person “hit their knees”. Sorry for the BOOK here, but wanted to answer as well as check on others here. I hope everbody else here is safe and sound??????? Thanks for checking, Chuck (and entire family) “ From: 'Anthony Spezio' via VFB Mail Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 6:40 AM To: [email protected] ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [VFB] And if the tornado threats were not enough!!!!! Chuck, Did you have any problems where you live. Heard on TV where Alabama got hit hard. We were spared here, the bad storms were North and South of us. Have a friend South of us that lost his boat and dock. Just East of us about 20 miles they did have Hail as big as Baseballs. We just had some small hail. Tony On Monday, April 28, 2014 9:05 PM, Michael Bliss <[email protected]> wrote: Saw them in South Texas. Wiped out the crops, roofs, cars and trailers. Bad. Hope that does not happen to you. Mike On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Chuck Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: Just listening to the weather and on top of possible tornadoes, they just predicted hailstones up to the size of SOFTBALLS...... That would ruin my poor new car, not to mention if one hot ya on the head. I thought it was a joke of sometime, because I have heard of/seen golf ball sized, but baseball and/or softball. Man that would hurt. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best is all you can do I guess, Chuck -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. 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