Good Friday wasn’t very good in the city of Murfreesboro, TN.
The first picture was taken literally less than a block from our house. I had the girls in the basement 15 minutes before this tornado touched the ground. That is all thanks to the early warning from our news channels and the weather radio. And let me just tell you how fun it is to be stuck in a dirt basement with an 18 month old baby. Addison just curled up and covered her ears. Alivia just didn’t understand why she had to stay on my lap.
It was traumatic to say the least but we are truly blessed to have no damage to our house. I just kept repeating in my head “God please protect us”.
I was watching the weather all morning and I knew it was going to be bad. I just didn’t expect our city to experience this much devastation.
I got all of these pictures from our county newspaper’s website.
This is a very interesting video from that day. I have never heard our news anchors sound so frantic and scared.
We were very blessed because our house has no damage and we walked away from the ordeal with nothing more than anxious minds and exhausted bodies.
My mom’s sister Karen’s house was hit badly (with her teenage son inside!)
He got into a closet downstairs and when he came out the house was torn apart.
My mom’s good friend Judy is having a 6-8 hour surgery on her spine today because of injuries from the tornado.
Here is a picture of Judy’s house…or where Judy’s house used to be. From what I hear she and her family are in good spirits. Losing the house is devastating but the fact that everyone inside survived is a miracle. Judy was inside her house with her teenage daughter and 2 other teenage girls. She threw herself on top of them! What a brave woman!
Not very far from Judy’s house a 30 yr old mom and her 9 week old baby didn’t make it. I am not sure of the details but the woman’s husband is still in critical condition. Their house is gone. I just can’t wrap my mind around it.
We are under a tornado watch in our area as I type this so please say a prayer that we don’t get any more severe weather. Our community has had enough I think!
I felt the same shock and disbelief when a tornado went through my parents neighborhood last year. You just never think something so devastating could happen so close to home. I’ll be praying for the families affected…
Things like this really make you realize just WHAT is important. We had to evacuate our home once because of fires. I literally had about 30 minutes to determine what was important. I was “lucky” because we were building a house and 90% of our stuff was in storage a very far distance from the fire. So I grabbed my son, the cpu from our computer, things/clothes so my husband could continue to work and necessities for me and the baby. It truly was all that mattered at the time. And wouldn’t you know it, the fire didn’t come within miles of us. But many in our community were devastated.
A couple of weeks later we saw the movie “Twister” (yeah, I’m really dating myself). I bawled through the whole movie because for the first time in my life I knew how helpless the people in the movie felt.
Oh how I remember the tornadoes coming across the field (grew up in southern MN). They are S-C-A-R-Y! Thankfully you and your fam are all right. Thoughts and prayers for everyone!
Katie Carpenter on
June 2, 2009 11:51 pm
so i was litteraly 10 seconds from where the mother & baby died. i was at my best friends house..lets just say i never want to experience that again. she has 5 sisters. it was so scary & im so thankful im alive came right through he backyard. i saw it.
I felt the same shock and disbelief when a tornado went through my parents neighborhood last year. You just never think something so devastating could happen so close to home. I’ll be praying for the families affected…
Oh wow… When I talked to Donna she didn’t know about your mom’s friend! I will be thinking about her and how thankful I am that you are all alive!
Things like this really make you realize just WHAT is important. We had to evacuate our home once because of fires. I literally had about 30 minutes to determine what was important. I was “lucky” because we were building a house and 90% of our stuff was in storage a very far distance from the fire. So I grabbed my son, the cpu from our computer, things/clothes so my husband could continue to work and necessities for me and the baby. It truly was all that mattered at the time. And wouldn’t you know it, the fire didn’t come within miles of us. But many in our community were devastated.
A couple of weeks later we saw the movie “Twister” (yeah, I’m really dating myself). I bawled through the whole movie because for the first time in my life I knew how helpless the people in the movie felt.
Praying your community has a rather boring evening!
How frightening!! I’m so glad that our family is ok!
OMG! That is definitely terrifying. I have an OLD highschool friend that lives in Murfreesboro, luckily she and her family are fine as well.
Friday was a scary thing! I am so glad yall are ok.
So glad you all are OK…hope your mom’s friend’s surgery goes well!
It’s hard to believe so much damage could happen in such a brief period of time.
Oh how I remember the tornadoes coming across the field (grew up in southern MN). They are S-C-A-R-Y! Thankfully you and your fam are all right. Thoughts and prayers for everyone!
so i was litteraly 10 seconds from where the mother & baby died. i was at my best friends house..lets just say i never want to experience that again. she has 5 sisters. it was so scary & im so thankful im alive came right through he backyard. i saw it.
i love you though