# Middle Tennessee Dopers Check In - Tornadoes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 10, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667 "2009-04-10T18:17:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/1 "2009-04-10T18:17:41Z")
Readyville still in place, although another line of storms coming through. I was a block away from the biggest tornado I"ve ever seen. I was on Broad and Church in M’boro and it looked about 1/2 a block wide over on Old Fort Pkwy. Another cell coming through. StG ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/2 "2009-04-10T18:54:42Z")
You still there **StGermain**? ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/3 "2009-04-10T19:06:00Z")
Yep. I think the worst is mostly past. StG ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/4 "2009-04-10T22:41:18Z")
In Murfreesboro there are two confirmed dead so far, one being a 9 month old baby. My cop neighbor says one touched down about a mile from our houses. StG ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/5 "2009-04-10T22:57:19Z")
I’m in Chattanooga, and our center cleared the entire production floor (1200 people?) for a warning for about an hour. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/6 "2009-04-10T23:13:29Z")
**Aesiron** - Where did they put you all? StG ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/7 "2009-04-11T01:49:04Z")
Fine in ClarksStupid. We had our wipeout tornado in 1999. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/8 "2009-04-11T01:52:39Z")
Just got off a 14 hour shift==\> glad to hear your’re okay StG. But loosing a nine month old baby to storm struck a raw nerve. I feel for the family–it’s got to hurt like hell right now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/9 "2009-04-11T15:51:32Z")
We were put in training rooms along the east side of the building. We were stuck there until 5:30 (I was scheduled to get off at 4:45, so I was a bit grumpy), but Blue Cross Blue Shield, which is in the same building, only held their employees until 5:00, and my best friend’s fiancee was outside waiting for him the entire time. She said it didn’t look like anything but a normal storm here. Being in the valley, tornadoes don’t touch down here that often. ---
**Author:** ![bufftabby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bufftabby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bufftabby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/10 "2009-04-11T15:57:33Z")
Murfreesboro was a pretty scary place to be for awhile yesterday. But after that line of tornadoes moved through, it was beautiful outside. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/11 "2009-04-11T16:22:38Z")
Hendersonville area here – we actually had a bunch of drawings to leave early yesterday due to the weather. Luckily it all skipped us. My husband is in Tullahoma for drill – they brought them in from the field when the storms rolled through, but their chow hall tent was blown away – guess it’ll be MREs today and tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/12 "2009-04-11T22:54:53Z")
My family, friends and I are all fine, but it came damn close to me. I clocked it today–I rode out the storm about 1/2 mile from where the mom and 9 week old baby were killed. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/13 "2009-04-11T23:52:15Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > Readyville still in place, although another line of storms coming through. I was a block away from the biggest tornado I"ve ever seen. > StG I’m glad to hear you’re OK, but a little disturbed that you apparently have enough tornado experience to compare them. Angel, LOL at ClarksStupid. Wasn’t expecting that, though it fits. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/14 "2009-04-12T00:27:26Z")
I’m in Memphis so missed it all. The sister I actually like was in the middle of it and though she escaped injury entirely, it was a near thing, as much damanage was done to the building where she works. She was distressingly near to where that poor woman and her baby were. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/middle-tennessee-dopers-check-in-tornadoes/492667/15 "2009-04-12T01:30:34Z")
I was in Gallatin at the hospital right after it went through. I did some quick calling around to see if my workplace was still standing in Smyrna. It was, so I went on to work from there. Glad everyone rode it out unscathed!