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     86129squids |
Hey all- woke this morning to hear my hometown of Mt. Juliet TN got hit by a twister early, been monitoring all day, had one warning over the radio for Ducktown TN, Coker Creek, and other locations between here and N. GA, so that tornado must've been the one that hit Adairsville... who's out there and howarya? Glitch? No_rice? Following the radar south, all this crap is extended WAY back to the Gulf- looks like we're gonna have a tough 24 hours, garonteed flooding... Everyone be safe! (Message edited by 86129squids on January 30, 2013) | ||
| Etennuly |
It is deep here East of Knoxville. Deepest I have seen in the fourteen years or so that I have been here. I always have been wanting to have lake front property, this is as close as I have seen it. The water in my neighbors pond is over it's banks flooding the fields behind us up to the edge of our property. At least four feet above normal high water levels. This is the first time my gravel drive has been squishy to truck tires since I laid and packed it in when I moved here. The Knoxville Tn area has has 12.6 inches of rain since Jan 1. Our annual average is 47.8. That is 26% of the annual rainfall in just under the first month. We got lucky the big wind and tornadoes did not come by here this round. The ground is so soggy so deep, old growth trees are easy to topple with a heavy gust of wind. More land slides are expected. The roads are flooded in a lot of places and asphalt is falling apart on the local roads and highways. I saw a line of five cars pulled off the berm on I 640 just past some fresh deep pot holes. Most of them were changing tires, some were waiting for wreckers as their steering mechanisms had broken. Then I saw three more cars spread along the berm over the next few miles changing tires from that same group of pot holes. Damn glad I was in another lane. They could not be missed if you were stuck in that lane. My heart goes out to those who have had their homes wiped out by the storms. | ||
| Hughlysses |
The gas station/store at Suches, GA posted on FB this afternoon that they'd had over 5 inches of rain today and it was still raining. The area around the Dragon got inundated last week- Killboy posted some awesome photos of the overflow at "Fugitive" dam and Fontana Dam. I guess they'll be getting more. | ||
| Glitch |
That was one hell of a storm. We did fine, the farm faired well. We were lucky, all around us the shit really hit the fan. There were about a hundred cars flipped over on I-75. It was insane! I'm hoping everyones doing well! | ||
| 86129squids |
Holy crap... How are the Skeenah camp folks? There are a LOT of low-lying areas that are gonna suffer, obviously the Suches lake and stream right AT TWO... Dang. Prayers up for folks to get through this. Here in Maryville TN the "duck pond" has shaped up to be a new Great Lake, and the greenway creek is now a small river. To top it all off, the temp has dropped VERY quickly, and now the radar is moving W-E fast, instead of the SW to NE pattern we had with the bad storms. It was blowing snow here about a half an hour ago. Ma Nature is PISSED for whatever reason... Good to hear Glitch, hope things dry out soon. I need to call my aunt- she's down where the crap hit, just above Chattanooga. Do keep the updates coming, friends. | ||
| Glitch |
The creeks were up that's for sure! The waterfall across the road from TWO was a torrent. Most everything that was up went down pretty quickly, the lakes were down, so there was space for the water to go. The clean up is going to be hell in some areas, and some areas will get away with some leaves to rake. | ||
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| Pwnzor |
I had a driver sitting at the Shaw Carpet plant off exit 306 in Adairsville when the tornado went through. Shaw evacuated the building while my driver was in the loading dock, sitting in his truck. He saw everybody running out to the parking lot, where they SAT IN THEIR CARS and waited for the all clear to go back to work. About an hour later, they all went back in, loaded up our carpet rolls and the driver headed back toward Atlanta to find all the nearby roads had been closed. He had to back track to the old Confederate Highway and navigate through rural neighborhoods until he found his way around the road blocks. Took him over 4 hours to cover the 65 miles back into town. We didn't see that video here at the office until after he was already back. Lucky. |
