On a sadder note; my wife just learned that the woman killed this morning was a retired veterinarian and kept a kennel. They found many of her dogs also dead but they were able to find and rescue seven.
Has anyone heard from the Yankee? One of those Tornadoes went right over Newnan just after the last post on this thread.
Prayers for Yankee... I hope he’s alright. Maybe his power is out - I hope that’s the worst of it.
Very sad about the lady and her dogs... I imagine God has a big place all lined up for all of them, though! ;)
I hope they re-invest in a few sirens for the county(ies) that don’t have them. They are lifesavers, and well worth it.
We trained dogs most of the day just south of the Newnan airport (in Moreland) and the wind was terrible, but it was all clear sky straight line wind. One young dog had so much trouble swimming against the wind he and the duck he was carrying flipped over backwards, and his owner and I were shucking off clothes to go in after him (I was bird boy and closest to the dog) when the wind suddenly just died to a dead calm and the dog righted himself and swam on in.
Most of the bad stuff passed well to our north, and we were all in our trucks and gone by the time the rain started.
But it is completely amazing to me that more folks weren't hurt or killed last night and today. A lot of bad storms.
I’m OK folks and thanks for your concern. My ISP (Newnan Utilities) was down from mid-afternoon till sometime during the night.
I heard from everyone around here that it got nasty late in the afternoon with hale storms but believe it ir not I napped through it all. Woke up to brilliant sunshine when my girlfriend called to tell me that a wicked storm had passed through the Thomas Crossroads area just minutes earlier. (Intersection of GA-34 and GA-154). It had to have gone past here because her sister who workson the other side of my apartment complex got it too.