Auntie Em Auntie Em!
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Glad he's okay.
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Thanks everyone for the thoughts and prayers.
I have been without internet or power since the storm hit. There were 312 estimated tornadoes which took the lives of more than 350 people. In my state of Alabama there were over 150 tornadoes alone killing 255 people.
One of the tornadoes touched down about 8 houses away from ours. Luckily our house was spared. The only thing we lost was our trampoline and a section of fence which I had fixed by the next morning. Our family was very lucky but others were not. My heart and prayers goes out to those suffering much more than I can imagine.
Our sister cities Huntsville and Madison have been slowly regaining power. The reason for the massive power outage was that the Tennessee Valley Authority lost every single transmission line leaving more than 600,000 without power. This however is only a minor inconvenience to those of us who have survived. Full power to the two cities is estimated to return in the middle of next week. Again I feel lucky we were only out of power for 4 and a half days.
I have some crappy pictures from my phone that I can post up soon. We just got power back this afternoon. I was surprised to see the internet up and working too. The linemen and everyone involved in getting us hooked back up are true heroes. But there is still much to do in the months ahead.
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Eric, great to see you back.
Phew!! now that was a blow-job.
Hope you get your life back to normal soon...next time sink the trampoline.
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Me too, Eric, great to hear you're around again.
Mother nature has been a bitch this season...Take care of yourself and the family....
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Thanks guys.
I am honestly glad to see the tramp gone. What a hazard that has been.Here are a couple of pictures I snapped with my phone driving to get gas and ice. This is one that went through Athens then onto north Madison then Huntsville. About a 70 mile path.
Here are a couple pictures of the house which was a block away from our house. This house used to be in almost complete shade year round. Their backyard was worse.
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Well, glad you are back and you and the family is safe.
Dave has been posting about your trampoline so we were not worrying toomuch for you but still nice to see you back.
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Glad to hear from you, Eric
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Welcome back, Eric. It's been pretty windy here the last few days, but those shots of yours puts my complaining about having to wash the car twice last week, because it immediately got covered in dust again, into some kind of perspective. Eight houses is a little too close for comfort.
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Thanks again and yes, too close for comfort.
The one that hit our neighborhood was a small one. Were it any bigger I am positive we would not have fared as well.Here are some photos of the TVA power line damage that has caused all the power outages.
These lines are only a few miles from my home.
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A good friend of mine who is a photographer for the Huntsville times took these in the Carter's Gin community which is between our home and where I work.
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Glad to hear you and your family are safe Eric. We were praying for you.
Scott
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Whoa!
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Terrifying!
Just a question: there is no Nuclear Plants on the path of all theses new tornadoes?
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@unknownuser said:
Terrifying!
Just a question: there is no Nuclear Plants on the path of all theses new tornadoes?
probably but i highly doubt a tornado -- even an f5 -- is going to take out a nuclear plant.
most buildings damaged in tornados are wooden framed (you don't see much crumbled brick houses in wind disaster pics
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Poorly reinforced brick veneer will peel away like paper. Some years ago, straight line winds came through and sucked the brick veneer off a local radio station. Two stories tall, pre-engineered metal building. The brick was on the leeward side of the building. Though I never went any closer than the street, the fact that the brick layer was still mostly intact as one plane on the ground told me that the dumbass who installed it did not use brick ties of any sort. The collapse narrowly missed their main satellite dish mounted on the ground next to the building.
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The Browns Ferry Nuclear plant will most likely be offline for a couple weeks.
@unknownuser said:
"The systems at Browns Ferry did exactly what they were supposed to. This is not comparable to Fukushima because it wasn't the result of damage to the plant, rather the lines leaving the plant were cut," said Scott Brooks, spokesman at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
When Browns Ferry lost offsite power, the reactors automatically shut and emergency backup diesel generators kicked in to cool the nuclear fuel.
Per Yahoo news.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110428/us_nm/us_utilities_operations_tva_browns_6 -
@mitcorb said:
the fact that the brick layer was still mostly intact as one plane on the ground told me that the dumbass who installed it did not use brick ties of any sort.
yeah, but, at least he saved a $ coupla_hundred
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