Apparently the storm veered off after Nashville...Lebanon just got a lot of lightning and high winds. Obama flew by crying for his Auntie Emm while Hillary, from her broom, screamed she’d tax his little dog, too.
They supposedly had 12 deaths up in Macon County, so it continued the rampage clear on past Nashville. What I always though so peculiar is how the weather has dramatically changed in my lifetime (nearly 34 years) in this city. We used to have winters that dumped a lot of snow with regularity from the ‘70s clear until the late ‘80s, and from the ‘90s onward, have hardly had any at all. Also in that same time period, the threat of tornadoes was rare and only seemed to occur during a brief period of the year, and even at that, supposedly only once every decade did a severe one threaten us (April or May, IIRC — one tornado came down our street shortly after my parents moved in back in ‘74, and I remember when I was in 4th grade a decade later in ‘84 that we had a similar one come by us), but now, these severe weather episodes with threats of tornadoes is a fairly and uncomfortably frequent occurance. Almost as if Oklahoma’s weather moved to Tennessee.
One thing I’ve observed about where we live in Antioch is that we seem to be somewhat insulated from some of the worst of the storms, they always seem to pass to the south or the north, but never quite right through (excluding t-storms). The topography of rolling hills and hollows probably helps to a degree, although some of the subdivisions near me that are at the tops of the hills I would never want to own a home in because those would be toast if a tornado dropped. Most of the places that sustain casualties out in the surrounding counties the topography is either flat or not broken up by hills. Tornadoes love flat land and trailer parks. They love to play on the former and eat the latter.