I'm good. Haven't been tracking the thing, but I know it was bad elsewhere.

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Benefits, not features; benefits, not features

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To be or not to be a gatchamaniac - that's the dilemma!

We had a tornado warning in northern Virginia at 6:30 yesterday morning. Luckily we were up. My husband is from Indiana and his 'spidey sense' as he calls it went off so he got us up and downstairs in time to watch a funnel cloud pass over. Scary. It never came down more than half way.

I can't image what those people went through and never want to. My prayers have gone out also.

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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers so far...

It even made international news, besides the upcoming

Royal wedding

it was mention in the news in Spain it saying it was bad

my pen pal lives in Albama and she had to be evacutaed

to Goergia she sent me and email not to long ago saying that almost 300 lives were lost

(thankfuly she had family member in Georgia)

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Perspective Alters Reality

I live in Cullman, Alabama. My town got hit by an EF4 tornado. There was a lot of devastation to homes and communities (including places I grew up), and the downtown area got smashed. Still, we were very lucky as the death toll was very low. Only 2 people in the city died. When I look at Tuscaloosa and the much larger amount of destruction and death, I realize that my town is so very fortunate. It is the worst tornado we have ever had, but there was lots of warning and the tornadoes happened during the day and were very visible.

You can look up Cullman tornado on Youtube and see footage of what they are calling a multiple vortex tornado, as well as aerial flyovers of the city afterward. Lots of footage exists for other towns like Tuscaloosa as well. Some smaller towns in North Alabama such as Pleasant Grove and Phil Campbell were wiped off the map. Power was out in much of the northern half of the state for anywhere from 4-11 days, depending on one's location. But the communities really pulled together and there was an outpouring of help from so many people.

I was lucky. I live about a mile north of the tornadoes path, so all I had to "suffer" was a long power outage. Many more were not so fortunate. The tornado came very close to our hospital, where I happened to be for a doctor's appointment when it came through. i saw the backside of it as it moved away with my own two eyes. It was the first tornado I have ever witnessed in real life.

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