Severe weather!

[Andrea]

It was the Sears at Hickory Ridge Mall. It's been reported that before the security guards could even make sure that everyone was accounted for and uninjured that area residents were stealing whatever they could carry from the damaged areas of the store. I <3 Memphis.

[sundial]

Oh man! I remember when Hickory Ridge Mall was THE mall to shop at before Wolfchase was built.

Glad you are ok and that your home wasn't damaged. Did you get hail?

[Andrea]

I don't know- I was hunkered down in a mildewy basement with my dogs while the storm came through!

[SouthernBelle]

The worst of the storm passed just north of me. If you read about the big fire at the gasline transmission station, that's about 20 miles away. The community of Castalian Springs was flattened including some historic homes. Also significant areas of Macon County. They are searching for bodies as it gets lighter.

[Tuckervill]

Which part of Hickory Hill is considered low income now? When I lived in Bartlett, Hickory Hill had expensive homes--although the last time I drove through there it seemed like it had gotten a little scary.

I'm sad about Memphis getting hit. I wonder if the area south of Fedex HQ got hit? I have friends who live there.

Karen

[Andrea]

Which part of Hickory Hill is considered low income now? When I lived in Bartlett, Hickory Hill had expensive homes--although the last time I drove through there it seemed like it had gotten a little scary.

I'm sad about Memphis getting hit. I wonder if the area south of Fedex HQ got hit? I have friends who live there.

Karen

The whole thing- the largest houses in the neighborhoods are selling for <200k now, and the gang activity is getting out of hand. It's a lot like the Mall of Memphis area as that mall began its decline.

Oh yeah, and the only Fed Ex damage I've heard of was the roof of a fire station at the hub.

[makbike]

Kentucky got hit hard last night and in the early hours of today. 7 are confirmed dead in the Commonwealth. When I went to bed at 11:30 the radar screen was ugly - loaded with reds and oranges. Lots of potential areas for tornados as well. I evidently slept through the storms as they passed over my tiny little town but did wake at 2:30 to discover I had no power. I set the alarm on my cell phone and went back to sleep. When my alarm went off I still had no power and quickly set about lightling candles for some light and pulling out my little battery operated radio - news was not good. The only good news that came across was that my school district was closed for the day - I would speculate it was due to the loss of power in the county. Power is back on and I'm heading out to ride - might as well take advantage of the 60F temp now for it is suppose to snow toward the end of the week.

[sundial]

The worst of the storm passed just north of me. If you read about the big fire at the gasline transmission station, that's about 20 miles away. The community of Castalian Springs was flattened including some historic homes. Also significant areas of Macon County. They are searching for bodies as it gets lighter.

Susan, are you in TN or GA?

[SouthernBelle]

Susan, are you in TN or GA?

I'm in TN, about 30 miles east of Nashville.

[sundial]

Makbike and Susan, so glad you guys are ok. If I had my choice of when to have severe weather, I would rather have all the sirens going off in the early evening than after midnight. I slept in my *tornado clothes* just in case I'm on the t.v. describing the sounds of the tornado.

All I saw was one large green and red line moving through the whole state of Arkansas into TN and MS. It was a bad storm. Hope we don't have that during official tornado season.

Here's what my furkids did while we were listening to the weather reports: