Tornadoes on ground N GA/ SE Tennessee...

[Orange_Crush]

Stay safe all. Check in with updates and needs if you're here in the area.

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

Stay safe all. Check in with updates and needs if you're here in the area.

A huge tornado went NE from Benton in Polk County which was darn close to me

 

[NurseGoodVol]

A huge tornado went NE from Benton in Polk County which was darn close to me

Man, i hope everyone is ok.

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

Man, i hope everyone is ok.

I think the tornado went into Monroe County

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

By this it looks like a mess there. A lot of calls for collapsed structures with possible injuries.
Multiple lines down and gas leaks.

Hamilton County 9-1-1 Emergency Communications District - Active Incidents

 

[Orange_Crush]

Looks like Hamilton Place YMCA is opening as a shelter for displaced people/families. Hamilton Place Lowes is a meeting place for affected families.

 

[NurseGoodVol]

By this it looks like a mess there. A lot of calls for collapsed structures with possible injuries.
Multiple lines down and gas leaks.

Hamilton County 9-1-1 Emergency Communications District - Active Incidents

That que is very long.

 

[Roustabout]

What are things like this morning? Was watching that closely. Looked like a pretty serious tornado sprouted up not for from your office and then ripped north.

 

[joevol33]

We had one apparently, allegedly touched down about5 miles from our house. Lots of people posting pictures of damage on Facebook, but nobody injured. I slept through the sirens.

 

[rjd970]

I’m without power in N. Alabama this morning. You guys stay safe.

 

[Smokey X]

Ooltewah here. No power but no damage at our place. Very blessed. Finding pieces of vinyl siding and styrofoam insulation on our property. No telling where from.
East Brainerd hard hit. They are saying more than 150 places seriously damaged, some destroyed.

 

[salutethehill]

Also upstate SC. Had a death near Clemson. Clemson/Seneca area got ate up. We're further east... in Greer. We were in the downstairs bathroom at 4am this morning...me, the wife, and the 4 kiddos... bicycle helmets on. Heck of a storm(s). Unfortunately...or fortunately... those TN tornadoes had everyone step up their nighttime tornado game.

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

What a rough night I didn't get much sleep because of the horrible storms

 

[McDad]

My good friend has a business over by the mall. His business survived but many around him damaged or razed.

Pray for Chattanooga.

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

Hope everyone is safe!!!

 

[***RoadVol***]

 

[Smokey X]

What Road is this?

 

[davethevol]

That’s definitely from a tornado. You can see the trees broken/bending in multiple directions. I feel awful for those people.

 

[***RoadVol***]

What Road is this?

Igou Gap near Hamilton Place Mall. Lots of damage even in the business district. Brand new East Brainerd Elementary School heavily damaged.

 

[JCHateSteve]

Hope everyone is safe down there. We've got flooding up here in the Tri and we didn't catch it near as bad.

 

[LouderVol]

My parents were less than a block from getting hit in mountain shadows. They are without power. But starting at the house at the other end of the street got damaged with it getting worse north from there. I know a lot of people that had to been effected worse than some fallen trees. Crazy seeing houses you know get destroyed.

 

[LouderVol]

Igou Gap near Hamilton Place Mall. Lots of damage even in the business district. Brand new East Brainerd Elementary School heavily damaged.

The new high school on Ootlewah ringgold road was hit too, along with Grace Academy on Shallowford.

 

[TheBigOne10]

My good friend has a business over by the mall. His business survived but many around him damaged or razed.

Pray for Chattanooga.

Same for my mom’s businesses in East Brainerd and my grandmas house on Igou Gap Rd. It’s really an awful situation.

 

[Orange_Crush]

What are things like this morning? Was watching that closely. Looked like a pretty serious tornado sprouted up not for from your office and then ripped north.

Im amazed how many people have been devastated. Many that I know well.

 

[DynaLo]

Rough night around here in SE TN. Tornado plowed through less than a mile from my house and a only couple blocks from my youngest daughter. She got a lot of heavy hail as it passed by so we know it was way to close for comfort.

I’ve always said I’d take a hurricane over a tornado every day and twice on Sunday and that’s after riding out 3 canes in 3 states. That opinion just got strongly reinforced again last night.

& for those that got hit and thankful that we got lucky.