[Lucas1]

Reports are that the police station...fire station...and jail were all damaged.

[Marathoner]

Any updates? I can't find anything on any news site at the moment. (Used to live there years ago, and still have friends in the area). Thanks for any replies.

BTW, I've found it to be much better coming here to get info from Freepers about these storms.

[Marathoner]

Really looks bad.

http://miva.jacksonsun.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?NEWS/news_story.mv+link=200305050000

[smiley]

My husband and I just purchased a home with a basement here in Indiana. After seeing how devasted Homecroft was after the September, 2002 tornado )which was a couple miles away from us)....we decided right then that it was time to start looking. We've observed more and more homes around our area which are being built are installing basements.

[Space Wrangler]

Ugh! I'm in SE Tenn, and we're bracing for it now. The storms always seem to do more damage in the western part of the state due to the wide open spaces. The storms and tornadoes lose some power when they slam into the mountains here. Sounds like something wicked this way comes for us though. :>(

[Damagro]

I'm in Jackson. What spared the area here I don't know. The power just came back on here around midnight. I am just getting to see the pics for the first time here on the web (thanks GailA). I'm located between Denmark and downtown and have never experienced a storm as violent and terrifying as Sunday night. By the time it woke me all I could do was go to a windowless room and hope the building would hold up. Even areas not close to the path of the tornado had very high winds and unusually large hail