My town (Nashville) hit with massive Tornado. *Drone footage added

It woke me up a bit after midnight. The winds were howling, rain and then hail pelting down. I watched several tree limbs ripped away in both my neighbor's yard and my own. We didn't sustain any significant damage, though it whipped through our open back porch and tore it all to hell.

The path of the tornado moved through sections of East Nashville and downtown, approximately following Interstate 40, which is 5 - 10 minutes down the road from us. It apparently was on the ground for around 40 minutes.

This is a local school 10 minutes away from us and several houses on the same street.







One of of our friends lost their home. Several have minor to major damage. One of my close friends reached out to me last night in tears because her son's girlfriend who drove home from her late shift arrived to find her home destroyed and her mother inside, dead.

All Nashville schools are closed today. Two of the counties that are hardest hit have closed their schools at least for the week.

Interstate 40 is closed in a couple of areas both ways. Several of my friends can't get to work because of damage to roads, subdivisions/live wires etc. A couple more have no work to go to..the building has been destroyed.


It's bad, folks.





We walked our property to see what's up. Lots of limbs down, some gutters ripped away, the roof of our back porch ripped and rolled up, and some of it in the yard. Cars are OK...I was worried about the hail exploding the windows, but we dodged that bullet thankfully.

 

One of my friends sent me this. Apartment building on her street. The image is fuzzy...it might take you a minute...that’s a red car that was lifted up and shoved into the middle of the building!


My friend Cindy reached out to me last night in tears because her son's girlfriend who drove home from her late shift arrived to find her home destroyed and her mother inside, dead.

This is so awful.

 

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So sorry for all in your town ! Glad you are OK !

 

I heard about this earlier today. I am sorry for your friends and neighbors and others with such loss of life and property. Prayers for all of you. I am glad that you are safe.

 

I complain a lot about living up north because of all this damn snow! but damn ill take snowstorms over tornados any day.

 

Wow Ronni - that is super awful. Saw it on TV and I can only shake my head in sorrow. Glad you're safe. Hopefully Nashville will re-build fast and no further destruction will happen.

 

So glad that you survived. Sad about the people who died though.
We got floods, but very few fatalities.
Sad old world at the moment.

 

So so sorry Ronni that your town has experienced this horrific damage and loss of life. It sounds as though it is so extensive that everyone knows of someone who had been hurt. I am glad you and your family are safe but I am appreciating the trauma to your community.

 

Drone footage of the devastation

 

Thanks for this posting, Ronni...it is so good to hear that you are alright.

 

Awful. Like everyone on this site, I am glad you and your family are unhurt.