Mark and all,
I just wanted to touch base that we are fine here. The news coverage of the torando and damage in our area has been on the media.

Tonight at supper time we had minutes to get to the basement and hunker down as the freight train sound of the tornado came through. In the aftermath, it looks like a bomb hit and exploded!

But for the luck of God, it missed us by a stones throw! Across the street 60 foot trees are snaped like matchsticks, powerlines, roofs off homes, even tractor trailers on their sides, a half mile from me.
We are at my son's until the power is back up at home as the temp dropped way down and nothing to do but sit and watch a 2" portable TV screen.

De lives in a trailer that was my Dad's, We had only a moment to get her and the cats as the car rocked back and forth, I did not think the trailer would hold up to the winds.
In the daylight I will ahve to get some pictures. I was so glad taht I did not cover the hours open at work tonight, I would have been terrified for them.

http://wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=5757455
The main roads all have trees down. South Main Rd by the highschool, the trees point east, On Route 309 the trees point west and are snaped and twisted.

The stadium seats and signs are all blown off. The kids were still in the highschool and didn't know what hit. Roffs were off the field house.

Mr,. Z's shopping center employees all teen's did not hear the warning, (as I said we had minutes)before shopping carts went flying through the air and the huge front window of the super store were ALL blown out. 5 people and the manager were hurt. All along the stores of the strip mall every window was gone, blown inward from the airpressure.
My ears were as if we were flying it was that bad.

There is several hundred feet between McDonald's and Mr. Z's parking lot, it looks like the just recently cleared area between is the path the tornado traveled. The trees across the street are the ones like match sticks.

large pine trees ( maybe a hundred or so) like the one a near by farm donated to the White House are all across the roads with wires down. Hopefully tomorrow there will be power.

I have experianced two small tornados here in the last 25 years, but nothing on this level......
If it came down our side of the road instead of across the other side our home would have devestating damage and I can bet De's trailer would not have been found intact, the winds were that fierce.

Keep you posted and maybe some pictures tomorrow.
Di

wow that is scary!

My Goodness Di,
I am sorry about the rough Tornado. It sounds like something in the movies. You and you family will all be in heart and prayers for safety. Big Hugs, Roz

Dianne,

I hope injuries are low and no fatalities. Sure glad you made it to safety. Living in the MidWest I've had plenty of experience with tornadoes, they are very scary! We must be swapping weather, you having a tornado in PA, and we just got 8-10 inches of snow dumped on us last night, with ice underneath. Everything was closed today - schools,businesses, universities, even Caterpillar told their employees to stay home. With the wind blowing the plows couldn't keep any roads open, and the wind chill was well below zero.

Of course the kids were delighted to have their first snow day of the school year!

That must have been some strange weather pattern!

Dianne,

So glad your Ok!

Peggy

Was wondering how you made out... we just had super high winds and have to call the ins. co as part of the shingles that were on the roof are now on the front lawn all-in-all in comparison to others we made out fine.