Wow Pam, that was way to close for comfort! I'm so glad that you and yours weren't hurt.

We got a lot of rain but the airport near me, RDU, (15, maybe 20 minutes away) had a wind gust of 79 miles per hour. 12 planes were damaged. I wasn't comfortable with that but you had it right in your own backyard! The way this is going we had better start praying for safety from Jeanne today!

Pam here - present and accounted for! Thanks Queenie for the request for prayers, etc. - must have helped a bit because the tornado never did touch down - just passed over top of us several hundred feet up - tearing all the tree tops off and pulling down some of the huge oak trees. The smell of wood and the sound of chain saws is all around this entire area this morning! We understand several homes had structural damage -thankfully we weren't one of those. We spent most of the evening in our basement listening to the radio reports....several tornados came through this area - as many as ten were sighted.

We feel lucky to just have to deal with the cleaning up - at least we have our home - Mother Nature will renew all the "greenery"....but we really are grateful that we were spared any major destruction.

Hope everyone else is OK....this season we are dealing with a LOT of "weather issues" aren't we ladies????!!!!!!

Pam, what is going on here? This weather is out of control. I was reading about all the deaths in Florida. It's one thing to lose a home, yet another to lose lives! GOd help us.

I hope you are enjoying the sense of community that surrounds you when Mother Nature does her damage. That's one of the blessings amidst our blizzards. People are out cleaning, shoveling, helping and talking to one another. I love that part.

Glad all you're doing is cleaning up branches!

Amen to that Dotsie....we were indeed lucky to just have branches (and other people's yard furniture!) to clean up...All told we had four 200+ foot oaks and one big maple cut down totally - and two 150+ foot oaks "topped"...and about a gazillion (yes that's a lot more than a million ) little branches and medium branches, etc. yet to clean up. Tomorrow is another day - and my back can't take anymore anyway!!!!

I finally was able to drive around our development this afternoon and saw one front porch totally crushed by a huge tree, and LOTS of shingles missing on just ONE house! The TV news said there were thirty tornados around here last night......

Well - tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and less windy - Clean-up, Day 2 (after church that is!!).

I do hope Mom Nature is nice to all of us for a while - at LEAST let us catch our breath!: rolleyes:

Hi Ladies:

I live in the Ohio River Valley and we have been bombarded. In my county alone (and we weren't the hardest hit) we have 18 homes demolished; 58 with significant damage; and 400 with other damage. AND we are having a river flood that is now 11 feet over flood stage.

My husband just had to leave again at 2:00 a.m. to try to get some equipment to safety.

I worked for two days at the Office of Emergency Services answering phones.

The guardsmen are arriving this evening, and I just heard another chopper go over at 2:45 a.m.

We are not in danger of flooding, but have many family, friends and businesses suffering lots of damage. The river water is staying at least 5 feet above flood stage for 3 days! MUD, Tetanus, junk, cleanup.

Please pray for ALL the families and troops who are working through this.

Moundsville has the highest crest between Pittsburgh and the end of it. We get all the northerly waters and have a dam below us.

Roads have buckled, bridges washed out, trailers swept away, homes swept away, tractor trailers under water, landslides too numerous to count, landslides pushing houses off their foundations.

so far, Thank you God, there has been no loss of life in Marshall County. There are people still missing in Ohio County, just 12 miles north.

Thank you all for prayers and support.

WOW...that does sound like a tremendous amount of devastation. So many people come together to help each other in these times as Dotsie said in an earlier post. There's only so much we all can do though - we need a break from Mom Nature too! It would be nice if we could say "that's it for this storm season"....let's just hope that we get a break this winter and have LESS SNOW/ICE than usual? Seems fair? Well, I think so!

Pam - so very grateful you are safe and sound.

To All - my family lives in Amelia County, a bedroom community 40 miles from Richmond and Stephanie, my sistah, drives a school bus. She was delivering children when a tornado hit her county this past week. Said her last child was a little boy, second grade, and she pulled up to his driveway and told him to RUN to the house, hurry, hurry, hurry. She said his little legs were working likes pistons. Last year she had a bus load and had to take the children to the high school for safety until the tornado passed.

The USA is contending with what the rest of the world has been dealing with for decades. Is there no one to stand in the gap for us?

<<<Are you kidding me? I can get Martha Stewart cheaper than that... >>>

only if she's a good girl and they let her out on work release.

This is a late post. Thank goodness all survived those storms.

I heard Ohio Valley got hit hard.

Pensacola got wiped out by Ivan. Nearly 10,000 homes un-inhabitable. 25,000 people without homes. And, this is six weeks after the storm.

Disaster teams had to stay in Mobile and commute to our area to assess damages--no room at the inn here--Actually, no inn here.

Things are slowly getting back to normal. But, everyone is still in shock. Concentration is gone. People begin a task, then go blank, totally forgetting what they started.

A lot of values have been reassessed.

Nina-G