Storm Damage in Central KY???

[Highbow]

Hope all is well from the tornado that came through this afternoon.

[Lil Gsp]

Everything looks to be fine in Lexington, just heavy rain and wind. Nothing major from our house. Hope everyone else is okay also.

[Highbow]

Wind, rain, lightning, still getting it here now. The news is reporting a lot of damage in Berea, Liberty, Irvine area. Sure hope nothing serious for those on the forum.

[Lil Gsp]

I heard of tornado damage near E-Town, but no injuries, Hope folks down there are okay.

[kentucky_redneck]

My parents in Adair county had golf ball size hail damage to theire cars and roof on the house. besides that everything is ok.
Here in Louisville we just had a good thunder storm.

[handgunner]

Wind, heavy rain, small hail on my side of Lexington.
I-75 @ Man O War

[Highbow]

It is leaving my area now , we didn't get too much damage, a few power outages and heavy rain in most of the area.

[GSP]

Called dad in Morgan county, some wind, heavy rain. It is out of the state now.
Hope all made it through ok.

[trust me]

About 7:30 we had a lightning strike on the big oak out back, or on the house itself, cant' be sure. Somehow it managed to throw a breaker, and my son felt a bit of a jolt. I was passing a window at the instant it hit, and it was like looking at an arc welder. I was kinda stunned and blinded, and thought something shorted out. It was a second or so until I realized thunder was reverberating all over the place.

I ran and checked on the kids, and then outside to check on the dogs (in that order) and checked the house and found the thrown breaker. The TVs and phones were fine, but when I fired up the computer, it said the network cable had been unplugged, and there was no DSL connection. But the hard drive and everything was fine. My wife, the tech-head, said the ethernet port was fried, but she used a USB cable to get it back up.

I figure the old oak took a direct hit, and the roots of the tree are probably in contact with the foundation walls, allowing a little loose voltage to get into the house. I've seen roots carry voltage right into a house and seriously char the floor joists. No major damage tonight, thank goodness.

[Xi Bowhunter]

About 7:30 we had a lightning strike on the big oak out back, or on the house itself, cant' be sure. Somehow it managed to throw a breaker, and my son felt a bit of a jolt. I was passing a window at the instant it hit, and it was like looking at an arc welder. I was kinda stunned and blinded, and thought something shorted out. It was a second or so until I realized thunder was reverberating all over the place.

I ran and checked on the kids, and then outside to check on the dogs (in that order) and checked the house and found the thrown breaker. The TVs and phones were fine, but when I fired up the computer, it said the network cable had been unplugged, and there was no DSL connection. But the hard drive and everything was fine. My wife, the tech-head, said the ethernet port was fried, but she used a USB cable to get it back up.

I figure the old oak took a direct hit, and the roots of the tree are probably in contact with the foundation walls, allowing a little loose voltage to get into the house. I've seen roots carry voltage right into a house and seriously char the floor joists. No major damage tonight, thank goodness.

Glad to hear your ok Trustme, no damage that I have seen here in daviess county, but we did get a pretty good storm.

[jeff ward]

glad to hear that everyone is fine,
hear in eastern ky. we had alot of wind and rain and hard lightening with heavy thunder. scared my horses so bad they busted threw my eletric fenc spent the storm chasing them down and getting them into the barn !!
but all is well now!!

[leggyarcher]

Glad to hear that everyone made it through the storms...I think the storm we had here early Monday morning was worse than last night's....the forecast is calling for snow and very low temperatures by Thursday. :(

[Highbow]

LEGGY,Is that the new look for 06? Or did the lightning run in on your dryer?

[leggyarcher]

LEGGY,Is that the new look for 06? Or did the lightning run in on your dryer?

I am tired of looking for an avatar that I actually like...I ran across this one late last night....Jim Carrey from his "In Living Color" days...it's going to stay for awhile. :D

[quackrstackr]

Rode the wave of storms out in a pit in a rice field. :D

Nothing like lightning, high winds and a tornado watch to add to the ambience of a duck hunt.

Came a toad strangler for about 10 minutes but the winds were so high it blew right through and the sun came out. We figured a hole in the ground was probably one of the safer places to be should a twister touch down on us.

[trust me]

I am tired of looking for an avatar that I actually like... :D

Leggy, you can borrow mine if you like, or my brother's, or my sister's. But that may be taking a fine thing a little too far...

http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/data/media/2/article0106008je337.jpg

[leggyarcher]

Leggy, you can borrow mine if you like, or my brother's, or my sister's. But that may be taking a fine thing a little too far...

http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/data/media/2/article0106008je337.jpg

All I can say is, BLESS HER HEART:eek: :D Actually, Maxcam said that my new avatar kinda reminded him of your "avatar's sister"...lol:D

[kevhunter]

Back to the storms, I was in E-town Monday afternoon with a friend and we stopped at a Jr Food Store to grab a Coke. As far as I can tell about 20-30 minutes after we left,the store was demolished by the tornado. The good lord was watching over us for sure. Nobody was hurt as far as I know.

[gun hunter]

Lincoln county was hit pretty hard.Several mobile homes turned over.

[DDMAN]

to add t owhat gunhunter said, mckinney had an f2 tornado. there were 9 mobile homes damaged, 4 were about 1/2 mile from my house. they were a total loss. one ofthem was rolled on to the rail road tracks, luckily no serious injuries. we had trees down on the roads, but thankfully everyone is fine. the redcross is involed along with a few other agencies. we are a tight community, everyone seems to be helping out in some way or another. there was reports on the news of missing people, but that was a false statement, everyone was accounted for. had a barn or two blown down, a few roof issues, but it could have been worse. we will just have to pick up and make the best of it.

[etownhunter]

only got a brief storm in Glendale, but looks like hell was alround me! Prayers to anyone affected by the storms!

[Highbow]

DD, glad it wasn't worse. No one lost their life is really the main point but those who lost their property , my heart goes out to them.