You folks were all over the TV last night. They cut into the baseball game to show the Doppler radar images. Man, that stuff looked fierce.
Good luck and best wishes to y’all.
Thanks, Sunspace, but as she says, that’s what homeowner’s insurance is for. She is actually in good spirits–better than I think I might be. 
<grumble> Just got done making about 25 lbs of 8"X8" photos of the first tornado sites…I’ll be snowed under now. </grumble>
Well, I was okay yesterday but today, not so much.
I keep hearing how people survived by riding out the tornado in their crawlspace, as their houses were being destroyed above them.
I was in my fricking bathroom! It didn’t even occur to me to get under the house. If the tornado had continued a littlle further I probably wouldn’t be here.
But I am so thankful that the Gallatin schools held onto the kids until after the storm. It hit around the time my son would’ve been getting home. And of course I’m very thankful that he had something to come home to.
Nothing much here, thank heaven. At my house, it rained like hell and hailstones fell for about two minutes, then the sun came back out.
And my wife was driving I-40 from Nashville back to Memphis while th estorms were heading in the opposite direction, but apparently she didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. I shudder to consider what would have happened had hte storms swept the Interstate.
A group of us were driving up to Keeneland today. Heading past Long Hollow Pike, traffic came to a stop where the Baptist church is just off the highway. Half of it totally gone. Just wreckage everywhere. I was near downtown and got nothing. Just a little rain.
Just sobering.
Checking in. I work at a school not far from the twister that touched down at highway 109 & Airport Rd. We dodged a major bullet judging from the destruction around. My route home took me by Station Camp High School. The building itself didn’t seem to have taken damage but the trees around, the fence, the lightpoles and what may have been a field house took major, major damage.
None of us at Rucker knew how bad things were at the time. Seeing the destruction afterwards was sobering. We were this frigging close to getting nailed.
Glad to see everyone checking in, let’s keep an update on folks who need help getting stuff together. I want to help if I can. Email me if I can do anything.
Thanks for the concern, everyone. There is substantial damage to the roof, but my home is still liveable. My car will be totalled but it is driveable for a few days, even if it does look awful with plastic where a back window should be. It is just amazing how much damage can be caused in so short a time. The gutters are wrecked, the leaves have been knocked off trees; even my mailbox and TV antenna are beat all to hell. The hail was baseball-sized and rained down faster than artillery fire in a WWII movie! Thank goodness, no one was actually hurt in my area. I think they are reporting 12 deaths total.
We’ll be ok, insurance-wise. Both the house and car are covered, and the deductibles aren’t too bad. Many people have suffered greater losses. The food charity I run will probably get a lot of requests for service stemming from this storm from people who were making it day-to-day, but had no reserve to cover losses or extra expenses that these situations often bring. Fortunately, the charity is in good shape, too, and should be able to meet the need.
Thanks for the concern, Dopers. You’re a great bunch of people, I don’t care what those other people say about you!