“It’s not looking good right now. We still have several people missing, a lot of loved ones calling in wanting us to locate their family,” Sheriff Eddie Farris of Putnam County told a local news station, WKRN. “We certainly hope that number doesn’t go up, but it’s not looking real promising at this point.”...Very sad!
“Downtown is devastated,” Chris Conte, a local reporter, said.
Here's a photograph — from the front page at the NYT website — by Mark Humphrey/Associated Press.
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Now 19 dead.
It's not sad. That's why there are pictures. It's entertainment.
Central Ohio 2am thunderstorm results at 7am
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It's a horrible tragedy and I pray for the people of Nashville.
Tornado season hasn't even fully ramped up yet. Usually you don't see this sort of destruction until April or May.
Is that fiberglass insulation or was the house lined with pink fake fur?
If it's insulation, why's it over the drywall?
I think it's pink fake fur. This tornado kind of pantsed the home owner here, didn't it.
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Horrible.
Perhaps it's just my coastal inexperience with the things, but even among natural disasters tornadoes seem particularly scary, because there's so little warning.
But credit where it's due -- the NYT managed to get through the whole article without blaming Trump or mentioning the Paris Accords.
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Thanks Allen. Terrible.
My wife came in to tell me it was 19 dead and I guess that was correct,
Going there next week -- hope Broadway and the Opry were spared.
Do tornadoes ever hit the homes of hoarders?
Do tornadoes ever hit the homes of hoarders?
Or crazy cat ladies?
My younger daughter lives in Nashville - about two miles from downtown - and slept through the sirens!! She’s fine, of course, but her favorite burger joint was not as lucky.
God it was awful. I was in the basement at one in the morning, and then nobody could get back to sleep. Fortunately for us, it went just two miles south. Just desperately checking any updates on Facebook, on Reddit, anywhere. Two people died a block from my daughter's school, I drive past there every day. All my friends and family are safe, most are checking on us.
We don't get anything like that up here that is so sudden and destructive. The really nasty storms - hurricanes - are rare and don't usually have as big and destructive an impact.
Very sad to hear. Be strong, Nashville!
Shocking and horrible destruction, yet the people seem to be resolute and determined to move forward. Maybe it's their faith? Or they've been through it before?
Looking at that photograph from the NYTimes I was stunned how fitting the bit of graffiti looked -- the whole scene was graffiti. The whole world turned upside down. Something to think about. Nashville.
We're OK!!! Woke up to a LOT of texts from friends. Daughter lives over there and she's fine too. But a lot of devastation.
To those of you who were in that area, I'm glad you and your families survived.
That storm front moved through Oak Ridge sometime early this morning- probably around 6 a.m. Most violent storm we have had here in couple of years at least- lots of lightning and high winds. Power is out over part of town this morning.
I bet they were all face touchers.
One thing about Las Vegas: we don't get much in the way of tornadoes, hurricanes, landslides, blizzards, floods, or earthquakes, but we can fry an egg on the sidewalk in summer.
Which part of Oak Ridge is out of power, Yancey? I grew in Emory Valley.
Here in West Nashville everything south of the river was fine, including us, but just north of us is a General Aviation airport and that area got hit hard. All of the news choppers have hangars there. That was the start of the path of destruction.
That storm came through here, minorly, last night before picking up steam for the Nashville hit . . . We know people in that conurbation but so far we have no bad news from them.
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Good luck mid-staters!
So much for the Nashville shit-kickers Bernie votes...
Count is 23 dead now.
Downtown means Nashville. Putnam County is Cookeville which is 70 miles east of Nashville on I-40. Oak Ridge is another 70 miles east of there just off I-40 and about a half hour northwest of Knoxville.
I didn't know Oak Ridge was hit. Here in Farragut we are just about ten miles south of Oak Ridge.
Looks like Cookeville had most of the fatalities.
Took a while to get feedback from family in the swath of devastation, but everyone is fine. Funny how fear and anxiety over a loved one turns instantly to anger that he doesn't have good phone charger habits.
Tennessee tornado catches up to total USA Coronavirus deaths in a matter of hours with minuscule effect on the world's economy. Shooting deaths in Chicago this weekend will likely be at least triple our of COVID-19 count.
Allen S:
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Thanks, Allen. (I was moved by the third picture down: "Rescue workers free Bill and Shirley Wallace..." Enlarge it. An extraordinary photo.)
24 is the official count now. Some areas were leveled and it was the middle of the night. Everybody was home and asleep. This is on top of a major apartment fire in the area. I understand local emergency shelters are overwhelmed and churches are organizing clothing/supply drives.
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