Thinking of Brookport, IL

[kaylashay81]

This is about 4-5 miles west of my house. They took a direct earlier from a tornado that crossed the Ohio River from KY into IL. There's been one two three confirmed death and they have been transporting injured to the hospitals over here. Since the tornado sirens stopped, all I've been hearing are the emergency sirens of the crews from my area heading back and forth over the river to help.

Not a good day for our area... :(

ETA: Link to a Facebook Gallery of Photos from Brookport, IL Posted by Someone

ETA2: Video from Barge Worker on the River as the Tornado Passed Over (Warning for Some Language)

Comments

[ferneberga.livejournal.com]

The devastation is awful! Damage looks the same as the typhoon that hit Philippines. Trust you and yours are all ok.
I'd be terrified of high winds too.
I really thought the tornado period had finished for you folks, but obviously not.
Take care.

[kaylashay.livejournal.com]

Tornado damage is always so bad in the area it hits. We can actually get tornadoes year round. There's just certain times where there more common. November is actually one of those times because we have such vary in temps as cold fronts come through. We were in the 70s (F) yesterday. When I walked outside to run to the store about an hour before the storm hit, you could just feel that something was not right and it was going to be bad.

[ferneberga.livejournal.com]

Wow! I had no idea. Yeah! November is a weird month here too, 10 days ago we were in the 80s (ºF) and now we're in the 50s, but fortunately we don't get any "dramatic" weather, just the occasional sea tornado in summer and no way as damaging or as strong as your tornadoes.