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Just asking for some prayers and good vibes for all my neighbors. My area was just devastated by multiple tornadoes, starting shortly after 9 pm and lasting until 12:30 in the morning. Rescue efforts are still early, but reports to local news are indicating severe damage. Some neighborhoods are gone. So far only 8 injured, but that number is expected to go up. Hoping with everything I've got that no one died. Some neighborhoods, they haven't even been able to reach yet. 60,000+ are out of power. They just sent out a bulletin asking that the entire city of Dayton only use water if it's crucially necessary, as the major water pumping stations are out of power. Entire neighborhoods are under mandatory evacuation. Gas leaks everywhere. Some fires. There is talk that the National Guard is being mobilized.
Everyone in my immediate neighborhood is fine. Two of the tornadoes - one of which caused some of the worst damage - were headed directly for us, but by some miracle ended up curving slightly in their paths so that they passed just south of us. My husband and I huddled under our basement stairs through tornado warning after tornado warning for an hour and a half, clinging to each other and our dear Gypsy (my avatar) as well as a carrier holding a plaintively meowing Slinky. We really thought we might not make it. I'm heartsick at all the people injured, frightened, homes and businesses destroyed, all the people flooding social media asking about neighborhoods because they can't reach their loved ones there.......they need all the prayers and positive thoughts you wonderful people can manage.
Thank you all.
(And just because sometimes you have to laugh so as not to cry, besides our beloved fur-children, my musical instruments, and our most important papers, I of course managed to find a little space under the basement stairs for....you guessed it......my ring box.)
Everyone in my immediate neighborhood is fine. Two of the tornadoes - one of which caused some of the worst damage - were headed directly for us, but by some miracle ended up curving slightly in their paths so that they passed just south of us. My husband and I huddled under our basement stairs through tornado warning after tornado warning for an hour and a half, clinging to each other and our dear Gypsy (my avatar) as well as a carrier holding a plaintively meowing Slinky. We really thought we might not make it. I'm heartsick at all the people injured, frightened, homes and businesses destroyed, all the people flooding social media asking about neighborhoods because they can't reach their loved ones there.......they need all the prayers and positive thoughts you wonderful people can manage.
Thank you all.
(And just because sometimes you have to laugh so as not to cry, besides our beloved fur-children, my musical instruments, and our most important papers, I of course managed to find a little space under the basement stairs for....you guessed it......my ring box.)