Pray for Memphis - Tornado

There's also the issue of this being a part of the New Madrid fault impact zone.

As it was, as soon as the Severe Thunderstorm warning went over the radio, we headed for our storm shelter. Everyone had gotten in, and I'd locked the house and had just hit the first step of the ladder going down when the tornado sirens started going off in response to a touchdown in the nex. Got down the ladder and dogged the hatch and waited, listening to the local newstalk station and the police scanner. Around 7:10pm, the shit started hitting the fan, with Union getting smashed, and the tornadoes moving quickly through the neighborhoods just north of us. At no time did we hear anything other than light rain. No roar, no turbine whine, no nothing. There wasn't even more than a light breeze turning the ventilation turbines on top of the shelter...all while the destruction was going on a half a mile away.

No, his tour is tomorrow. Today we got our Senators, Congresscritters, the Governor, and Michael Chertoff.

Union U took at least 47 million in damage. Dunno how they're going to do classes for this semester.

It doesn't matter, it's the thought that counts.

You are a true American hero!

And the current record for debri travel from this storm is 48 miles. One of the Union University road signs wound up in Huntingdon, TN.

48 miles. One can picture it pulled up to 40,000 ft and let go to follow whatever glide pattern it's bent metal trajectory allowed.

That's from here to Spring.

Yup. And here's the story:
http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080209/NEWS01/802090316





Union street sign found - in Huntingdon

By TYRONE TONY REED JR.
ttreed@jacksonsun.com

A broken Union University Drive sign sits to the side in 17-year-old Colin Laman's car shop in Huntingdon, after traveling more than 40 miles in Tuesday's storm.
Laman found the sign, which is about six feet long, in a pasture 300 to 400 yards behind his family's house.
"It's amazing how far that sign traveled," Laman said in a phone interview Friday night.
According to Phil Baker, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Memphis, the sign could have been carried up into the storm by the tornado that hit the campus of Union University. The storm was 10 miles tall and traveled at about 55 miles per hour, he said.
"We tracked that winds in the middle of the storm were close to 100 miles per hour," Baker said Friday. "Winds above that were 150 to 160 miles per hour."
The sign could have been caught in an updraft, which is upward-moving air in a thunderstorm, he said.
"It's not outside the realm of possibility that it traveled that far," Baker said.
Laman said other than the sign landing in the pasture, quarter-size hail fell near his home but didn't damage anything.
"We took cover in my dad's shop, which is concreted into the ground," he said. Laman said he doesn't intend to give the sign back to the city of Jackson. "I plan to keep it," Laman said. "The sign is broken, and I don't see what they could do with a broken sign."

Someone found a used and cleared check from 1990 some 150 miles north in Kentucky

Yup. There've been a number of old checks from one of the dr's offices over on Physician's Drive found around the area.