Weekend Report...

For some folks...it will be an Easter weekend long remembered.



Multiple Tornado warnings and confirmed touch downs in many areas yesterday.

Two were killed (in Tenn.) a mother and her 9 week old baby and many people were hurt.

Dozens of homes destroyed and dozens more damaged. A line of storms grew in intensity as they came roaring from west to east and growing in size and ferocity and speed.

This was the second wave of storms to make its way through Tennessee in the same day.

We...(meaning us)...dodged the bullet this time, we only got heavy rain, but a few years back, we almost walked into a nightmare...



Only by the skin of our teeth...

Let us step back in time...a few years ago.

I was at work at the time and Julie had decided she and the little one would head to her mother's house. I had NOAA Weather Radar pulled up and was tracking the heavy line of storms heading right for our home. The forming tornado came down on the main road doing damage to buildings as it jumped across the hill and followed the hill line (that follows the road) crossing many side roads and tearing up a lot of trees and homes.

When I left work, it took me over three hours to get home. Every direction was blocked as this tornado did some pretty widespread damage. When I finally made it to the house, no damage, but no power. That was on a Friday. We later found out that the tornado was only a quarter mile from the house. The hills had kept it away.

God bless the "Hills of Tennessee"

My wife stayed with her mother...I stayed in the dark. Three days without power is not much to bitch about, knowing you still have a house and home. Knowing other folks have lost some or all of their things and some have to start over again for the umpteenth time...

The pure shock of ten minutes ago your home was fine...and now it's nothing but tooth picks and busted bricks and shattered dreams...

We are called the "Volunteer State" for one reason...in time of need when your neighbor is hurting, we volunteer our time, our hands & backs, our homes, our food and water, our hearts, and our prayers.

God bless Tennessee...

B.D.