Tornados... Checking in/still alive.

[rebelcowboysnb]

Using my phone to check in. We are ok even though we got hit by 2 funnel clouds directly which makes 3 total this season. A large part of the city of Trenton was leveled with 2 EF-1s an a EF-3 with several killed. Several tornados hit our mountain too. The EF-3 that hit trenton also leveled about 18 miles across the county an about the same in dekalb county an jackson county Al. In these 3 countys we call home 30+ an climbing are dead. My extended family is ok with just property losses but several friends were not so lucky.

I have chickens hatching in incubators now that have been running of my truck for days. You can fit 10 dozen eggs in one LG incubator by the way. Barrowed another to hatch in. Truck had a hard time running the big incubator.

Website may take a few to rebuild if we ever get power again.

Phone is too slow to post picks but here are some local ones. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1218381448&sk=photos

 

[EmtheFishLady]

let me know if you need anything. I'm not too far from you, and we were missed completely.

 

[kathyinmo]

So glad to hear you are alive! That is the most important thing. Thanks for checking in!

Best wishes to you.

 

[country freedom]

Yes - glad you are alright!

 

[Elphaba2140]

Good to hear from you. Glad you are alive and well. This whole storm thing has been devastating. Hope you will get back up and running soon. I was enjoying the colored chicks hatching! Good Luck.

 

[3goodeggs]

Everyday I read that the death toll keeps rising. I am dumb struck at how awful that system was and have been worrying for you folks that were in the path.
...and you are still incubating. amazing.
I hope 'normal enough' will resume quickly for you all.

 

[ranchhand]

Very glad to hear from you. My heart goes out to all affected by this nightmare.

 

[white01]

glad you are safe, will be thinking of you and all that have been effected....

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

We, too, are still alive. This is our first day with power. We are some of the lucky ones in that our damage was really minimal. So many are dead and others have lost everything. This morning I saw the first pictures, as we lost power just as the EF5 hit Cullman. The devastation around the state is beyond anything I have ever seen.

Here we only got hit by the 5 am "warning" storm. About 100 mph straight-line wind. It tore the guttering off the house (the individual sections landed high in the trees about 500 yards away where we have no idea how to get it down) and ripped the soffit off the porch. Then it rolled the porch roofing up like it was a piece of carpet and deposited it in the back of my truck. Oh, and if anyone has seen my solar fence charger, please let me know. (We have all electric fences between the stallion paddock and the mares' pasture. He never discovered that the charger was gone. Oops if he did!) We have not found so much as a bit of cracked plastic from that charger, just the dangling wires from where it was hanging on the corner of the porch (which is the corner that got the worst of it when the wind hit us.) So we hung the back-up charger. That one plugs into an electrical outlet--and the power went down about an hour later and stayed down until just now. We had some bouts of hard rain. lightening, thunder, and heavy wind but we were never in any other danger.

And we're sure not complaining! We deem ourselves some of the luckiest people in Alabama. There are whole towns gone! So we're some REALLY thankful folks here!


Rusty

 

[redhen]

Thanks for letting us know your okay!