TFox, were you still at Vandy when the F5s hit Nashville and Sumner County? I still lived in Sumner County. The first one took out our electrical sys
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and then fried all our computer system. Then the huge one hit downtown Nashville at the start of rush hour (I hope you weren't golfing or at the pool *vbg*) and about took it out. We had a couple more touchdowns close to us, the post office was turned into rubble and half of Darcy's school was just torn apart--the kids had been sent home 2 hours before.
It was so weird, that was the same year that Franklin was hit at 11:30pm and took out a big chunk of downtown, killing several people.
Right before Easter in 1999 we had 30-something touchdowns and damage everywhere, we lost half our roof.
I moved to Seattle in 2000, shortly afterwards we had a 6.8 earthquake. I didn't like that very much.
A couple of years after I moved my beloved Presbyterian chuch (almost 200 years old, beautiful hand carved wood, monstrous pipe organ, 20 feet tall 120 years old colored windows, you know the drill) was burned partly to the ground (the pictures just made me cry). Finally, about 2-3 years ago, another F5 destroyed Gallatin (where I lived). Quite a few people were killed or injured, 3/4 of the houses sustained damage, it was horrible. On the other hand, I love living here in Idaho--we have rare thunderstorms, one possible tornado sighting in the last several years and that's pretty much it. We have avalanche warnings and blizzards and monster windstorms in the late fall through early spring, but other than that we have sunshine and single digit humidity like 300 days per year.
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