tornado sirens blasting out here in the boonies..

[FalconSmitty]

after the near miss a month ago I don't like hearing them again

[score300]

I hope you all are safe.... we've got warnings over here.

[FalconSmitty]

it went south of us..lookout eufaula and columbus

[thankfull]

They came north and south of us but we did have enough marble sized hail to cover the grass.

[FalconSmitty]

yes sir yall made CNN and the weather channel glad you are ok

[Ragfly Jig Man]

We didn't go to bed until around 2:30 this morning. The sirens went off 2 different times here in Cordele. We got a little over 2 inches of rain. We are ok and sure hope everyone made it thru with no problem.

[gajud]

Well we didn't have any storm damage here at the house, but my wife fell down the basement steps as we were seeking shelter, broke her wrist and blew out her ankle. She is beat up pretty good, but it could have been a lot worse.
Anytime you can sit around and laugh about what happen I figure that you need to consider yourself very lucky and things are on the mend.

[clark_kent]

Sorry to hear that your wife fell, The siren went off here at least 3 different times we had allot of wind and hail but no damage other than to the trees and bushes.






Mike

[FalconSmitty]

Four twisters touched down in Georgia during Friday evening’s sound and fury, according to preliminary National Weather Service reports issued Saturday night.


• Metro and state news The first twister touched down in Pickens County just after 6 p.m. The storm had 90 mph winds roaring along Ga. 136 northeast of Jasper, uprooting numerous trees and snapping power lines.

The devastation then moved to the southwest part of the state, where Chattahoochee County was hit by two separate twisters starting a little before 10 p.m. Both were spawned by the same “super cell” thunderstorm.

Some two hours later, a 200-yard-wide tornado touched down in Sumter County near Lake Blackshear, damaging 45 homes.

Metro Atlanta appeared to have been spared any actual tornadoes, but that was little comfort to people drying out after a night of heavy wind, rain and hail.

Nearly an inch of rain fell at Fulton County Airport in the 24-hour period beginning Friday night, according to the Weather Service office in Peachtree City. There, things were almost as soggy: More than a half-inch of rain fell there, while nearly a half inch soaked Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta.

On Lake Lanier, according to Forsyth County officials, boat and dock owners were dealing with boats that tipped over in the torrent of rain and wind that also damaged ramps and docks.

The biggest hail laid siege to northwest Georgia, where ice balls about as big as baseballs, 2 3/4 inches in diameter, were reported, according to the Weather Service. In other areas across the state, the hail more often came in sizes of golf balls and English peas.

In Augusta, wind blew off the roof of a nursing home, and about 135 residents had to spend the night in a hospital, according to the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. Several trees were knocked down in Polk County, including one that crashed on two homes in Rockmart.

In Franklin County, about 25 homes, and chicken houses, were damaged by hail, wind and rain. In Gwinnett County, a tree landed on a residence near Buford.

Almost all power was restored across the state by Saturday morning, said GEMA spokesman Ken Davis. At one point more than 10,000 Georgia Power customers — roughly 7,600 of them in northwest Georgia — were without juice, according to utility spokeswoman Lynn Wallace.

In metro Atlanta, about 1,700 customers lost power in the north Druid Hills area of Dekalb County. Another 217 were without electricity in College Park.

[papasage]

glad i councled my trip this weakin to blacksher . :D. they said it hit just acros the lake in pecan slough . went pond fishing. cought some brim and cats.