I hope you are safe Kate, weather has taken so many lives and Alabama and Mississippi seem to often be the target of tornadoes. My prayers are with you.

I am so glad to know you are safe, Kate. I am just now seeing pictures of Rolling fork. Horrific! I have not heard how many are unaccounted for, but must be many more. When you see pictures of that, hard to believe anyone survived. They talk of rebuilding, but I recently went through a central hard hit area of Bowling Green, a business area, that has not rebuilt much yet. Many homes are not rebuilt. It is slowly recovering, but takes a lot of time. So sad to see areas that you have known for years, just gone.

Kate - Glad to see you are OK. Mississippi sure has taken the brunt of nasty weather these past two years, with so many hurricanes and tornados impacting it. Living in the Southeast seems to get more dangerous each year as climate change progresses.

Debra

So happy to hear you were not in the strike zone. This has always been such an unstable season for many of us weather wise and, as you said, it's not over yet. It is rather frightening when the sirens go off and they say head to your "safe zone" and the best we can do in our area is the hallway. No basements around here because of the heavy clay soil. Pretty scary............Maryl

I see where these storms continue to wreak havoc and devastation in Georgia this morning. It was a powerful sysyem. You are right Nancy-rebuilding does take time. Several years ago an EF4 hit a smal town east of us and obliterated the town. They did rebuild but years later you can still see foundations and steps of homes that were not rebuilt. Sorta like on the gulf coast after hurricane Camille-for years you could see steps leading up to nothing.

Maryl, not many basements here either-soil is too ”fluid”. Most new home plans have safe rooms-my son’s new house had a safe room in the master bedroom closet. We head to an inner bathroom with our bicycle helmets.

Glad to hear all is well with you Kate!

Sherry

Kate: This shows my age, but I rode out Hurricaine Camille when I lived in Mississippi. Saw Gulfport right after it was hit and Biloxi close by. Watched a roof peel off the house next door from our rattling bedroom window. Southerners are amazing in their ability to pull together and bring order out of chaos, but seeing that sort of extensive damage after Camille and other such disasters, you've got to wonder how. Grace of God and hard work I'm sure..............Maryl

Maryl, that piece of information should be on a medal for you!

I haven't been watching the weather lately so I missed about the tornados. Glad you are ok. Also, I didn't realize you lived in Mississippi, Kate. I knew you were down south "somewhere".

Brad