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tornado! O_o
Feb. 6th, 2008 02:03 pmI won't be able to post this because the internet is down all over town at the moment, but yeah.
Tornado came through Gassville last night (the next town down the road), tore up a lot. No more Mexican restaurant, no more McDonald's, no more truck stops, and from what I hear there's a trailer park missing, too--and I'm sure there's more gone, but I haven't heard what else. I'm fine; it never got as far as Mountain Home. All we got in town were creepy horror-movie skies/tornado alarms and torrential deluge. (As a matter of fact once we found out the internet was down Nico and I went driving in search of "spray." ...we're easily entertained.) I took pictures of the sky; they're still on my camera so I don't know if they really captured what I saw.
Hoping to hear from Rodney and Debbie--they and the kids are fine but I haven't heard one way or the other about the house that they just built. -_-*
Also just found out Terry, my boss lives in a trailer out Gassville way. He's fine and it's fine, but he's not in today. (This is not exactly out of the ordinary. He's had a record of showing up intermittently as far back as when I was interviewing.) Scary stuff.
Cell phone service is intermittent in that your phone won't ring but you'll get the voicemail, text messages take about ten minutes to send. GAH.
Nico just called to ask if I want to tag along this afternoon when he goes on a drive to see the damage. Um, yes. Will report on that.
Now, I think I just heard that they have DSL up and running so I'm gonna dash.
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...Okay, so that was hours ago, internet up and running, but now I have links to post with this. McDonald's IS still standing, after all, but the rest of it was more or less right--of the two truck stops one is okay, the other has roof damage and the attached car wash is GONE, Letty's (the Mexican retaurant) is irreparable, and there are plenty of trailers that will never...trail?...again.
News!
Picture 4 on the slideshow from this page was featured on the local news, it's a still from video. I happened to catch it on my way to the bathroom earlier today. Please ignore that the people at our local paper can't spell aerial (in the links to the right).
It shouldn't be funny, but pic #7 on this slideshow is pretty much the greatest picture ever. *not laughing. not at all. no really*
I just got an email with more pics, taken by someone I work with, but I'll post them later since I'll have to upload them first.
Tornado came through Gassville last night (the next town down the road), tore up a lot. No more Mexican restaurant, no more McDonald's, no more truck stops, and from what I hear there's a trailer park missing, too--and I'm sure there's more gone, but I haven't heard what else. I'm fine; it never got as far as Mountain Home. All we got in town were creepy horror-movie skies/tornado alarms and torrential deluge. (As a matter of fact once we found out the internet was down Nico and I went driving in search of "spray." ...we're easily entertained.) I took pictures of the sky; they're still on my camera so I don't know if they really captured what I saw.
Hoping to hear from Rodney and Debbie--they and the kids are fine but I haven't heard one way or the other about the house that they just built. -_-*
Also just found out Terry, my boss lives in a trailer out Gassville way. He's fine and it's fine, but he's not in today. (This is not exactly out of the ordinary. He's had a record of showing up intermittently as far back as when I was interviewing.) Scary stuff.
Cell phone service is intermittent in that your phone won't ring but you'll get the voicemail, text messages take about ten minutes to send. GAH.
Nico just called to ask if I want to tag along this afternoon when he goes on a drive to see the damage. Um, yes. Will report on that.
Now, I think I just heard that they have DSL up and running so I'm gonna dash.
~*~
...Okay, so that was hours ago, internet up and running, but now I have links to post with this. McDonald's IS still standing, after all, but the rest of it was more or less right--of the two truck stops one is okay, the other has roof damage and the attached car wash is GONE, Letty's (the Mexican retaurant) is irreparable, and there are plenty of trailers that will never...trail?...again.
News!
Picture 4 on the slideshow from this page was featured on the local news, it's a still from video. I happened to catch it on my way to the bathroom earlier today. Please ignore that the people at our local paper can't spell aerial (in the links to the right).
It shouldn't be funny, but pic #7 on this slideshow is pretty much the greatest picture ever. *not laughing. not at all. no really*
I just got an email with more pics, taken by someone I work with, but I'll post them later since I'll have to upload them first.
