Saturday, April 08, 2006

TORNADOES STRIKE MIDWEST AGAIN

Well for the second time in 5 days Tornadoes destroy and kill people, another 11 died for a total of 35 deaths in the last week due to 80-90 Tornadoes.

The Hail was once again the size of Golf balls to soft Balls in places. Last year to this point in the Tornado season there were 96 Tornadoes. This year there has been over 400 Tornadoes already, a 400% increase in Tornado activity.

People better start realizing that God is warning the world to repent. And this is only the beggining of sorrows to come in the near future.

10 different tennessee counties reported Tornado touchdowns.

Tornadoes strike Tennessee, kill 11 By Pat Harris Sat Apr 8, 12:05 AM ET NASHVILLE,

Tennessee (Reuters) - Tornadoes battered the nation's midsection on Friday, killing 11 people in central Tennessee in the second deadly tornado outbreak in the state this week, officials said.
The winds knocked over walls at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin where some 200 students had huddled inside a building and watched as the storm approached. Despite the heavy damage to the campus, the injuries were mostly minor cuts and bruises.

What had been stately brick homes near Gallatin were heavily damaged, and rubble was strewn across upscale neighborhoods. And several people were rescued after being trapped in their cars by storm debris. The 11 confirmed deaths were in communities near Nashville, including eight fatalities northeast of the city in the outskirts of Gallatin in Sumner County, said Eddie Boatwright of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.

In Warren County, where the other three deaths occurred, authorities said some mobile homes were destroyed and a truck overturned. A series of tornadoes on Sunday across the central United States left 28 people dead, including 24 in west Tennessee where a huge twister obliterated homes in its path. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center reported 42 tornadoes were sighted on Friday in Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana and Kentucky. The violent weather grew out of a powerful storm system working its way across
the nation.

Warning sirens sounded across central Tennessee on Friday as dark funnel clouds sent tornadoes spinning to the ground, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, some as big as baseballs, witnesses said."Cars were tossed around" in Nashville's suburbs, the city's mayor, Bill Purcell, said, although the city itself appeared to have been spared.

A tornado damaged a hospital in Ashland City, though no one was hurt. Patients had to be transferred to another facility. A pylon carrying power lines collapsed on a home in Ashland City. The storm uprooted trees and downed power lines, knocking out power to thousands, authorities said.

Ironically, authorities were holding emergency response drills in Nashville to prepare in the event several disasters struck simultaneously. Earlier on Friday, volunteers simulated a plague outbreak, a skyscraper collapse and a bomb blast at a popular venue."We were all highly mobilized because of this exercise," Purcell said.

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