Storm folks, check in pls.

[dixiegrrrrl]

On a scale of 1 to 10, the storm in our area was a 12. Constant lightening, wind, and even hail.
Have not seen hail in a storm in this area, in decades.
We lost power in the middle of it, which made the lightening seem even more impressive.
Only in fla. have I seen lightening storms like this.

Ala had est. 18 tornadoes last night. 4 dead.
Still waiting for more light and reports to come in.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Incredible..I was watching the live feed from Birmingham last night and saw a tornado

pass near the camera they were using....frightening. Stuff is heading our way, but we aren't in the red zone - yellow today and tomorrow.

Be vigilant, keep/stay safe, all!

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Tis amazing to me that there is such good coverage online.

Even videos on Twitter, and just saw one on Youtube of security camera catching the insane amount of lightening in b'ham.
Watched several tv news streams across the state last night, also.

[JoeyT]

3. We got pretty much the same thing.

I was busy all day so the first I even heard of the storm was DU. I made a note to see what it was doing, then I saw your post about it being two counties west of you and thought "Wait a minute. I think I'm only one county west of her." *BOOM BOOM BOOOOOOOOM!* "Well shit."

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Oh, you did get some Boom boom indeed.

I was watching radar and tracking some ugly looking colors heading into Washington and Clarke counties, and then another one popped up at the Clarke/Monroe county line, and kept coming.
one of the few times I have seen purple ( severe) on the radar around here.

How did you like the light show?

[JoeyT]

5. The lights were fine, I could've

done without the tornadoes, though. Pretty much all they did here (at my house) was break a bunch of trees off. I don't think we have any reported fatalities yet for Clarke.

[mountain grammy]

6. We woke up to 6 inches of snow and I'm not whining.. I'll shovel and it'll melt

you all stay safe out there.

[yallerdawg]

7. Here in the Gump...

woke up with alarms and sirens around 1AM to 2AM, flashes, booms, and heavy rain, both local news stations were reporting circulation moving across central Montgomery. They had that Doppler radar going showing the reversing winds and were advising getting to your safe place. Then after about an hour, it had moved east, no touchdown.

This AM, the Weather Channel reported a TorCon value of 7 for Montgomery and said today there is a 70% chance of a tornado in the City of Montgomery.

That will get your attention.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. james Spann has put up a timeline of the storms arriving this afetrnoon

Scroll down...
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=82721

[Go Vols]

8. This tornado was headed toward me

last night,but fizzled out and dumped debris over my area.

http://www.wsmv.com/story/25347335/severe-storms-monday-tuesday

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Lot of people do not realize

the angle of how these storms hit.
You up there had the head of the storm line, we in Ala had the middle and folks in Miss had the tail of the line,
all at one time.
so that angle means the storms sweep across a state from west to east.

Seeing reports now of some towns that got erased by these storms....ye gods.

[Go Vols]

17. Looks like y'all will get the worst of it

today too.

[KoKo]

9. Thank you for the update....!

It's headed to the EC tonight and tomorrow. Heavy rains/flooding/hail and who knows what else.

[Rowdyboy]

10. Alive and gearing up for round II later today. Thankfully we're outside the "danger area"

so hopefully all we get today is heavy rain but even that will add to the flooding we're already starting to see.

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. Something weird....

We got wind, we got a pretty good hail storm, we got torrential rain, and hours of lightening.
yet, this morning, when I took the dog outside, not one single branch anywhere on the ground. Not even many leaves.
You could not tell a storm had hit.
except for losing power, no damage at all to be seen.
amazing.

[malaise]

13. Glad you're OK

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Thank you, my pal.

Just woke from a needed nap, sat down at puter, and am hearing a rumble from storm 2, which looks much less threating tha last night. The dog is not even trembling....yet.
Thanks for the kind thoughts.

[malaise]

19. Well as soon as the tornadoes are over

we'll have to stock up for hurricane season. They say life is an itch with a big B and then we all die

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. So you know I started the thread again

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024885198

And I need to check on the hospital at Bessemer, Glad you are ok

[Grammy23]

16. Here in Pensacola, the storms rolled through from about 3 a.m. on .....

I barely slept a wink with one eye on The Weather Channel. My phone went off one time with a Flash Flood alert but fortunately for us, where we live, we're pretty safe from that kind of thing. As long as we stay off the streets (and we will be doing that!!) we should be safe from a flash flood event. Mobile, AL (which is about an hour or so west of Pensacola) got 4" of rain in an hour or less last night. So they definitely had their hands full with that much rain in such a short amount of time.

Just wanted to remind folks reading this that lightning storms don't just produce a good light show. We tend to think of it being a danger to people out on golf courses or working outdoors being at risk for death or injury from a strike. In the 1980s my family lived in Mobile, AL and one night a tremendous thunderstorm came rolling through during the night. The house right next to ours took a direct lightning strike to the attic. It took about 15 minutes for the fire to get going and thankfully, the elderly man who lived there alone, was able to get out and go next door to his son's house and call 911.

That house went up in flames and burned almost completely to the ground because it was an older frame house. Our house came within minutes of catching on fire and, as it was, it melted the end shingles on our roof, filled our house and attic with smoke, broke the glass in the door, scorched the house siding and all but destroyed our 1967 Mustang sitting in our driveway between the two houses. We were incredibly lucky that our house was relatively unscathed.

So please do not discount the danger from lightning!! It can and does start fires that can be devastating and life threatening! If your house takes a hit, check things out carefully to make sure there is not a fire smoldering somewhere within it.