Huge Tornado Outbreak ....6 On Ground In Kentucky

[second_glance]

[EquineAnne]

OMG, I hope everyone is safe and well.

[Happy Endings]

I'm speechless. That map looks frightening.

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Current numbers: 13 dead in Indiana; 25 total throughout affected areas. [Says my local NBC news outlet.]

BTW, the areas most affected in Indiana aren't TB country, but you'll find a lot of horses down there -- esp. QHs and endurance-type horses.

[moonwalker]

I was freaking out all day, remembering April 3, 1974 and all the tornadoes that swept through when I was a kid. Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel was in my hometown all day (Jeffersonville, IN) on the banks of the Ohio so the Louisville skyline would show.

Tornadoes blew away my cousins' house in Palmyra, IN (in Southern Indiana, also in today's storm path) years ago, killing their horse and cattle. None of the family was hurt; they managed to get in the basement just as the tornado lifted the house and took it. The horse was a black mare, the first I ever rode by myself (though I didn't ask permission, and got a whipping for it) when I was 5 or 6.

Mary MMM

[second_glance]

Powerful storms leveled small towns in southern Indiana, transforming entire blocks of homes into piles of debris, tossing school buses into a home and a restaurant and causing destruction so severe it was difficult to tell what was once there. As night fell, dazed residents shuffled through town, some looking for relatives, while rescue workers searched the rubble for survivors. Without power, the only light in town came from cars that crawled down the streets.

Marysville is leveled.; Henryville suffered "extreme damage."

At least 28 dead in 3 states.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...R_story_1.html

[Ty88]

I was freaking out all day, remembering April 3, 1974 and all the tornadoes that swept through when I was a kid. Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel was in my hometown all day (Jeffersonville, IN) on the banks of the Ohio so the Louisville skyline would show.

Tornadoes blew away my cousins' house in Palmyra, IN (in Southern Indiana, also in today's storm path) years ago, killing their horse and cattle. None of the family was hurt; they managed to get in the basement just as the tornado lifted the house and took it. The horse was a black mare, the first I ever rode by myself (though I didn't ask permission, and got a whipping for it) when I was 5 or 6.

Mary MMM

That's what I thought about too. This is definitely a super outbreak. Strange timing as well. All around weird, weird disaster.

[TapitsGal]

This is heartbreaking..but at least according to Maker's Mark Secretariat Center,Lexington seemed to make it through unscathed.Hopefully we'll hear soon from the Thoroughbred farms on whether or not the stallions,mares,etc made it thru the storm ok

[TBird]

This is heartbreaking..but at least according to Maker's Mark Secretariat Center,Lexington seemed to make it through unscathed.Hopefully we'll hear soon from the Thoroughbred farms on whether or not the stallions,mares,etc made it thru the storm ok

I live surrounded Lane's End, WinStar, and Three Chimneys and we got very lucky here. The worst of the hail and high winds passed us by.

[Blue Jeans]

Death toll stands at 31 ... but could rise.

http://news.yahoo.com/violent-storms...123456027.html

[afleetphil]

Thank God that Lexington was spared. I was worried about the horse farms all of yesterday. Up here in Vermont we don't have tornadoes and I have never experienced one. They must be terrifying.

[LarrytheK]

AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!

[Prairie Bayou]

I hope Jeanne at Our Mims is okay.

[islandgirl45]

Thank God that Lexington was spared. I was worried about the horse farms all of yesterday. Up here in Vermont we don't have tornadoes and I have never experienced one. They must be terrifying.

A weak one (estimated at EF0-EF1) passed within about 30 feet of my house in 1997. It was during a big storm at night and I actually heard its roar and high-pitched whine over the noise of the storm. Sounded like a jet engine. It snapped a large oak in my neighbor's yard like it was a twig and tossed it over on my property, just creasing the roof of my house.

As scary as that was, it doesn't hold a candle to the terror of being in the path of these Midwestern monster tornadoes that demolish entire towns.

[Blue Jeans]

Story of "Twister" .... has a nice ending.

http://www.paulickreport.com/news/bl...me-doing-well/

From The Horse ... http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=19738

[ElPrado1]

We had one that passed less than a mile away from me in Tampa last year. Tore up my neighborhood gas station. The canopy over the pumps was sitting under the stop light in the intersection. Smack dab in the middle of the street. Then it followed a street directly to the bay.