We were awakened at 4 AM by the NOAH weather radio and a tornado watch. We watched TV weather for an hour before it passed; all the regular daytime weather people had been on air all night. It is a bit more scary when these storms hit at night. You can't see what is going on and must rely on the radio and TV.
Reports from around Tennessee say that 1 man was killed when a tree fell on the shed he was in. An EF-2 tornado damaged buildings in Mt Juliet, east of Nashville. Much of the damage was from winds of 50-100 mph. We were fortunate in that we just had wind gusts of maybe 35-45 and 1.5" of rain. The ground is saturated so the creek is out of it's banks and up on the pastures today. I have recorded 8.6 inches of rain in January, 4 more than normal.
A cold front is moving in, but it stopped raining about noon and was still in the mid fifties, so I went out to prune some more roses. I am halfway done now; 20 out of 40!
I hope all of you readers in the path of these storms are safe.
Glad you were safe there. We lost electricity for about 8 hours but no trees down that we could see. Living in a valley the way we do with ridges all around we have come to feel pretty safe. Not that it's impossible for a tornado to dip down I guess, but we went to sleep turning off the cell phones where we wouldn't hear the warnings all night.
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