We came very close to being hit by a tornado yesterday. Atkins AR was hit very badly, it is 15 miles (est.) to the east of us. Here we had rain and wind but nothing special – then we heard the sirens going off for tornado warnings and could see on the news that it wasn’t for us but east of us. Our power went out and we put the generator back to work and got the tv hooked up so we could keep track of the storms. All day off and on the news has been on showing the destruction which was very bad. 4 people died in that town and more in other towns to the north east of the state. That was a little too close for comfort. Here is a link to a photo slide of storm damage across the south from Arkansas to I’m not sure where all. In the beginning of the slide show are photo’s from Arkansas, if you read the labels you will see the utter destruction in the area. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Deadly-tornadoes-strike-South-Cyerice-Martin-right-comforts-sister-Seavia-Dixon-left-Wednesday-Feb/ss/events/us/020608southtornadoes/s:/ap/20080206/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather
we were lucky our power was only out for 3 hours — I say only because last week when a cold front came rushing through our state we had a very bad wind storm and were out of power for 32 hours!
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