major tornado damage in Evansville IN area..at least 15 dead [LIVE THREAD]

CNN

[janetjanet998]

CNN live on the air..reports just coming in...tornado hit at night...many homes also damaged..7 dead in trailer park

[janetjanet998]

50 injuries at hospital..15 in crictical

[tiredoflaundry]

Prayers for all involved.

[janetjanet998]

Fox reporting 9 dead now..

also storms were moving at 50-60 MPH

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Wow, that's not good!

[muawiyah]

This one left a trail 3/4 mile wide. It was a big one!

[tiredoflaundry]

During hurricane season, I worry about the hurricane, but I'm TERRIFED of the tornadoes that can come about.

[TomGuy]

[janetjanet998]

CNN..many people stilled trapped in the trailer aprk

[meanie monster]

Came through North Middle Tn at 4:30 am. Woke me up, lost power and it came back on 30 mins ago. Scared the crap outta me.

I usually love thunderstorms but since we got our house on a heavily wooded lot, it freaks me out. Hope all is safe

[tiredoflaundry]

Janet, How unusual are tornadoes in that area this time of year?

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

How close to Derby was this?

[mhking]

Live Streaming:

WFIE-TV/DT Evansville: http://www.14wfie.com/global/video/WorldNowASX.asp?playerType=native&ClipID1=574326&h1=Newswatch%20Coverage%204%3A30am%20CST%20Sunday&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=2035300&LaunchPageAdTag=Homepage&activePane=info&playerVersion=6

WEHT-TV/DT Evansville: http://easylink.playstream.com/winlive/wehtlive.wvx

[cripplecreek]

We're going to be looking for a house too. I suspect that we're going to be condemned when the insurance adjuster gets here.

[TomGuy]

[cripplecreek]

Here's what we woke up to in our bedroom at about 4:30 or so. We've already called to have a dumpster delivered and friends are on the way to help clean up. At least we were already planning our new house.

[OXENinFLA]

%$&*!!

Not good news to wake up to.

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But the next reporter that says "It looks like a war zone" needs to be smacked upside the head.

A huge tornado went through there, it looks like A HUGE TONADO WENT THROUGH THE AREA!!

[OXENinFLA]

Glad to hear you're OK.

[cripplecreek]

We dodged a bullet by about a foot and a half but it scared the hell out of us. We had to go out the window. The tree broke the spine of the house but we're insured and everybody is OK.

[freedom4ever]

Evansville is 86 miles or an 1 1/2 drive from Derby. This tornado started in Henderson, Ky. and came across the southeast side of Evanmsville. It hitthe Ellis Park Racetrack(horseracing) and several horses were killed as well as major stuctural damage to the grandstands , and other buildings. Ellis Park is on the Ohio River, Indiana side.

The tornado then moved through the east side of Evansville, to a town called Newburgh, and then over through a town called Boonville. There is major damage and the death toll is increasing. I had just heard 4 more deaths from Warrick County added to whatever the total was. Warrick County has just issued a state of emergency. This is where Newburgh and Boonville is.

It is still very early after this happened, so pepople are still in shock. Power is out and people are already running out of gas because gas stations aren't operating in the local area. People had already been out cutting trees and limbs just after it happened.

I live 30-40 minutes north of here. Many of our southern county fire depts. were paged out to assist with search and rescue around 2:30. Our dept. wasn't paged. There aren't many left in our county. We were virtually untouched by the storm. We had rain and wind.

[janetjanet998]

this is not as important as the deaths/injury/damage...but perhaps this will help end the myth that torandoes don't hit river valleys..you are not "protected" just becuase you live in a river valley