Dude, I feel your pain. I lost my shop, my house, a ****load of tools and parts, plus six cars and a truck seven years ago this month to a tornado. Lost a '50 Hudson Pacemaker coupe, a '50 Dodge truck, '53 Hudson Hornet, '89 BMW 325i ragtop, '68 Dodge, and a '70 Ford F250. My little Metropolitan, which was inside the shop with the BMW and the coupe pictured (concrete block and steel shop collapsed on them!), came out with just broken windshields and a small dent! What matters is that you and your family got through the storm fine, I'm ***uming, since you have not said otherwise. Stuff can always be replaced. Believe me, you'll get through it better than you might think right now. And, I really HATE the month of May.
Tornados **** ***! Glad your okay. Had one close to my place once about 1/2 mile. That's about as close as I want to come to one.
Glad you are all ok. Remember, stuff is just stuff. Once you get all your survival needs arranged, have a beer and start planning what's next (hopefully leaving some of the your unrealized plans, clutter and unrealistic schemes far behind). Really sorry to hear this, Gary.
I'm very sorry to hear about your loss. Material things can be replaced, but it still ****s. I hope this is the last time anything like this ever happens to you
I'm glad to hear that everyone is okay, that is the important thing. You'll rebuild, material posessions can and will be replaced. I hate tornadoes, hid in the ba*****t from one as a kid and could hear nothing but the noise as it p***ed by. The house I was in was untouched but the trees fifteen feet from the house were uprooted and the neighbor's house across the street was flattened. They came home from work/school to nothing left but a huge mess.
Sorry for your losses. Here in Nebraskas Tornado Alley I have watched storms damage or destroy places all around me. Makes me wonder when it's my time?
wow sorry that happened to you! crazy living where you guys live! that would drive me crazy, sirens sounding! oh man gives me the creeps! no pun intended.
Sorry to hear... not much fun. On a philosophical note, losing everything I owned except my pickup in Hurricane Ike was a very good thing for me. Makes you realize what's really needed, and what you can do without. Thinkin it might be time to pull up stakes again and head for the islands... what does a guy really need when he lives somewhere that's a vacation every day?
Guess I should quit complaining about still getting snow over here....Sorry to hear what's happening to you all over on that side!...Just another thing to slow you down and make one realize what is REALLY important, I guess.. Good luck on the rebuilding ! Randy
I was just thinking about these very issues a week ago. Wondering how many HAMB members were affected by the storms that went through the South recently? We get wind but nothing like that. This has been a crazy spring for storms all over the country. High is only to be mid 40’s here and usually in the 70’s. Sorry for your losses.
Its the ****s to lose your home,cars and work place but your back in action again and car rebuild every thing. We also lost every thing in 79 in a flood. Was a bitter pill to swallow but we did and after a few months was on the road to recovery as you will be. Glad your safe and sound.
Oh man sorry to hear.... we were driving home last night down I10 and went right about a huge storm that was all up in Hatiesburg, MS. We watched it for probably 6 hours while driving.
Not quite the same but I lost $40,000 worth of "stuff" to a fire set by an arsonist. No one who hasn't experienced something like this can imagine the violated feeling that comes from it. Frank
thanks everyone yeah family ok thats most important thing stuff can be fixed or replaced may thin out realized i have to many projects . and discovered i didnt have enough insurence need to have them covered even if not running cause anything can happen
I've got tornado and hurricane stories to spare... I feel your pain. If you don't have a place to stay long-term while your house is fixed, contact FEMA. They will bring you a travel-trailer and you can live right on your property. It's nice to still live there while rebuilding. If you need a generator, you can use mine. We used to chain it to a tree to keep "neighbors" from "borrowing" it. MG, AKA a Floridian in Tennessee.
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