Posted on 04/24/2010 12:08:47 PM PDT by JoeProBono
JACKSON, Miss. - Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms hopskotched across the South on Saturday, destroying several homes and buildings in Mississippi and Louisiana, emergency officials and local media reported. An unknown number of people were reported injured.
The fire department near Tallulah, La., reported a chemical complex in Omega just north of Tallulah was damaged, with injuries and people trapped
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Obama’s fault.
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Prayers up for all.
I join you in prayer.
Well, maybe we should have gone ahead with the tent camping in the area after all...
I am certain that Obama will rush to the scene to lend his support to the victims just as he did when Hurricane Katrina hit.””
Just as he did when the shootings occurred at Ft Hood.
NObama went to the funeral there for a photo op, but didn’t visit the wounded. Pres Geo Bush, OTOH, visited the wounded, in his own car, with his own gas, and spent hours visiting them. No photo op, either.
Withdrawal from the photographers is surely going to be a problem for The One.
Obama hates Black People, who were, of Course, hardest hit.
But seriously, Prayers for the victims.
he’s somewhere in the woods today, having a “middle-class” vacation— I surmise that means he is wearing camo, going commando, toting a rifle, and looking for the pot field
The area of the tornado watch area has been enlarged and time extended. Also the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has issued a High severe weather alert for a large area of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kentucky. It is very rare for them to issue such an alert for this area of the country.
I'm in northern Alabama and our tornado watch has been extended until 9 p.m. and we are located within the High bulls-eye. We've been told that the worst of the weather should be through our area by midnight. I pray its sooner.
So far today we haven't had it too bad. Rain, a bit of lightning and thunder with a lot of wind.
Years ago I read in a magazine where a precious child said to God “Lord, We need the rain but not the ice cubes” (hail). This has stuck with me because it is so cute. I use this prayer but add to it “and not whirlpools (tornadoes) either!”
I’ll be praying for my friends in Huntsville (and elsewhere too!)
So far I haven't had to give my dog a tranquilizer yet but may soon. He senses something is going on.
(Last night he started getting nervous when I brought my jewelry and guns down to the ground floor. When I do that he knows we are in for severe weather.)
Fortunately we have a couple of especially good meteorologists here in Huntsville who are excellent at forecasting severe weather and their TV stations have excellent radar. Bit of trivia: Doppler radar was developed here due to the severe weather that we have here.
Please don’t send the annoying Al Roker there for live coverage. The people have suffered enough.
Had an awful powerful storm just rip through here in North Saint Louis county..
You still have a train of T-Storms headed your way. Be alert and safe! We have blessed sunshine right now. After a scarry morning in Centeral Miss.
And the rest of Saint Louis County, too. Mid-county just got a lot of rain and lightning. A tornado touched down at West County Mall in the parking lot and there were reports of another in Madison County, IL.
My husband and I drove right under the tornado that touched Tallulah and crossed the river to hit Yazoo City. It went right over our area and the wind was frightening as the wind was forceful from one direction and then whipped into the exact opposite direction within seconds.
That is scarry. Looks like all this bad weather has passed our and your area for the day. Bright welcomed sunshine right now.
Y’all gotta stop chasing those things! LOL
We were actually running, not chasing!!! LOL
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