The Open Source site has several good articles on how small town America and Americans dealt with and are dealing with the disaster. Lots of video links to YouTube with film of the storm from along its track.
Our power was only out a few hours.....looks like these guys were dead center and down for a week or more.
Many lessons to be learned here from others' pain.
We had the brood one 17 year cicadas this year, and they split the twigs of trees to lay their eggs. The wind came up and along with the big stuff there was tons of the twigs down as well. I wonder if there will be a lot less around in 17 years.
Freegards
I hate when anything bad happens on the mid atlantic coast. We’ll never quit hearing about it. Thank the Lord that Alabama (last year) and it’s 400 or so killed in tornadoes, wasn’t on the eastern seaboard
Interesting to watch on You Tube. Looks like something out of Ghostbusters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MG7aOjZciY
I was at work when this blew through NW Indy.
The sky was very dark and I walked outside for a break. I got a few feet away from the building when the wind just came out of nowhere. I looked to my right and saw plants being ripped from their pots and thrown across the parking lot with the pots right behind them like missiles.
When I turned to run back in the building the air was sucked right out of my lungs by the wind hitting me in the face. I was almost knocked over but managed to make it inside when the rain came in buckets. I don’t mind saying that I was really terrified for the first time in a long time.
Salve
I hope you are all well.
Merci.