Here's hoping the folks here from the tornado affected states are doing o.k.

[Wally's Comics]

I have heard Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Georgia have all declared states of emergency

while Virginia and Kentucky got hit hard too.

 

 

My sincere thoughts and prayers are with you all.

 

 

[goldust40]

God, here we go again - this seems to happen all too frequently. Here's hoping that it won't be as bad as predicted.

[Wally's Comics]

there's already hundreds of fatalities, this is real bad news...

 

 

 

 

[seanfingh]

 

All positive energy to everyone in the Southeast. The pictures from Tuscaloosa were so horrific.

[kenm]

I have heard Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia have all declared states of emergency.

 

 

My sincere thoughts and prayers are with you all.

 

 

 

Same thoughts here.

[Snake Eyes]

I posted a little info in Nik's charity thread, but looks like here is appropriate as well.

 

I do live in Tuscaloosa, but thankfully my wife and I are OK. I am so grateful that there was a lot of warning lead time, so I cancelled my patients for the afternoon and she headed home early. Unfortunately, the storm itself produced an F5 tornado, which is as bad as it gets. At approximately 4:30 - 5:00 CST it went almost completely dark. Everyone was advised to take shelter immediately (which we did...never again will I make fun of her for being a worry-wart). As we sat in the bathroom...they were literally announcing where it hit on a street by street basis. Our home was outside of the path of destruction (which reportedly is a mile wide in places), but it pretty much leveled Tuscaloosa proper.

 

Communications have been spotty at best (internet here at work seems OK though). But it appears that a significant number of our friends have lost their homes (include both of my graduate student employees). More distressingly, one of the students believed her husband was at home and he still cannot be located. Absolutely broke my heart to talk to her on the phone this morning. Anyway, please keep the people of Tuscaloosa in your hearts and thoughts the next few days...what I have seen so far has been horrific, and I suspect that the number of confirmed fatalities will increase dramatically.

 

Heath

[seanfingh]

 

Take care, Heath.

[shiverbones]

It is really bad. My friends in tuscaloosa lost their house and 2 cats, but they are ok. It is really upsetting how massive the damage is.

[Ringfinger]

That weather is crazy!

[porky]

God, here we go again - this seems to happen all too frequently.

for a second, i thought you were talking about "effected" vs. "affected".

[Menace]

 

Oh my god, terrible! A lot of my friends and artists live in that area. Prayrs are with the southeastern region.

[Hibou]

No pun intended, but tornados suck!

 

I had heard that one touched down in Jersey today but I'm not sure if that was confirmed!

[Wally's Comics]

My neighbors finally heard from their folks that live down in N. Alabama

so that is relief for them.

 

Do we know if there are anyone else that was affected from these boards.