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So glad to hear that, Ammit!

We’re getting hit with storms this afternoon in lower Alabama and I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw tornado watches, but praying nothing serious. Such a tragedy!

With living IN the Appalachains / Shenandoah Valley we usually get spared the Vortex from the winds , but we have had gusts well over 50 last night and we are under wind watch again today

Here in north-east PA the storm is reduced to a day of rain with a high wind advisory from about 5 PM to 1 AM, according to the forecast. I will be keeping those in the seriously affected areas in my prayers.

My weather radio went off all evening long, and the city sirens went off 4 different times. We're about 15 miles away from where the big Amazon warehouse was just ripped apart (it's on all the news channels). It was scary, but I really think the whole 'heat island' effect saves us from a lot of the wilder storms, they mostly break up and go around the city, then re form in Illinois.

My father was a very big wig in our small town Missouri hometown, and he was referred to as 'Pastor Disaster' for his civil defense work. I was dubbed 'Daughter Disaster' and got stuck spending many nights at the civil defense center in Sedalia, MO as a kid!

@confluencestables that sounds so cool, were you and your dad close?

I'm good, live too far north for tornados. Hope everyone else is doing alright though.

I'm in the UK and saw Nightphoenix's post yesterday. It was on the news yesterday evening with pictures of the Amazon warehouse. Dreadful destruction, I don't know how anyone survived. I've seen occasional documentaries about hurricanes and tornadoes. Is this event unusually bad? It seems as if it is.

@White Valley it's usual to get a handful of tornadoes at a time over maybe one or two states depending on where it is, but this particular night there were about a dozen tornadoes including 1 EF4-5 (highest you can go) that was a mile wide and on the ground for over 230 miles and 4 states, which is a suspected world record.

A couple years ago we had an EF0 go right through my town, it was on the ground for maybe a mile, but still knocked out a few roofs and a lot of trees. Nothing remotely close to Friday night. And that happened July in the afternoon so we knew it was coming.

@confluencestable well respect for actually doing something to help his community I can't stand empty virtue signalling

Haha I get that, Like I said I live up north and we're always amused when newyork and mass freak out about 'blizzards' (they get like 3 inches of snow) that won't even get you a snow day up here. Cali can keep the earthquakes and wildfires though I want no part of that, ground should stay flat where it belongs.

So many thoughts and prayers (as well as aid!) are coming from Oklahoma. I live about 10-15 miles from Moore, which is where the last EF5 tornado struck back in 2013. I drove through that area about a week after it hit and remember the wreckage all too well.

For those not familiar, storm season for most of the central US goes from about March to July. Tornadoes in December are not completely unheard of — on average there’s about 25 reported during the whole month of December. There were at least 22 tornadoes reported Friday night ALONE. The EF5 is the first one of its severity level since the Moore, OK tornado, which touched down in May of 2013. For comparison to the information in ichigo’s post, Moore was on the ground for 37 minutes and only traveled 17 miles before dissipating. So Friday’s traveled almost 14 times further and stayed on the ground 8 times longer, which is absolutely unprecedented.

Apologies for throwing out a bunch of information, working property & casualty insurance in Oklahoma made for a slight obsession with the weather. :-$ Statistics and numbers aside, I’m glad everyone is reported whole and safe so far. <3

Birmingham seems to be tornado central for the uk according to Wikipedia (sorry, having trouble linking to article).

Glad I moved from there many years ago! The English Midlands are fairly flat, so it's a good place for these things to form. Unfortunately we're not real big on having basements over here, so if we get an f5 we'll be in big trouble.

As an avid ( obessessed ) foster mom of many many kittens and puppers ; ALL of the local shelters in the areas hit are under incredable duress at the moment; the non damaged areas are stepping up and pulling pets from the shelter in order to allow pets that have suffered a loss of home to have a safe place until they can be re united with their families ; There are several groups on FB at are helping and have wish lists ; from "cash" cards to garbage bags to water ; if you can please help :)

Well it's the north's turn for crazy weather. Up here in WI we have wind advisories with sustained winds up to 60mph and gusts at 80. It's about 50 degrees out (record high for December) so I hope it's not hot enough for tornadoes. There's thunder and lightning and big puffs of wind already, but the worst is supposed to happen around midnight-1am. I'd 100% take a 24inch blizzard and -10F over 50's and tornadoes in December, thanks....

I work at home and am on covid lockdown until Saturday so I got that going for me at least lol

When we had the tornado a couple years ago a huge branch from my neighbors elm narrowly missed landing on my house, and the building next to my house is in the process of being torn down so I really hope no parts of that building end up on or in my property...

Talie you’re alive! We haven’t heard from you in months and I was starting to get worried >:D<

We made it through! To make life even harder today was trash day and I'm proud to say my cans didn't leave the yard and were retrieved timely lol but a good bunch of branches landed in my yard plus some orange construction fence from a block over.... A bit north of me there's a lot of power outages and trees down but my little town doesn't seem too worse for wear

I'm glad Minnesota made it out well too! The biggest worry was the ice but I haven't seen any reports of bad ice here or across the Mississippi.

I'm in CO and we just had unbelievable winds on Wednesday.... over 100 mph gusts and lots of damage. Several downed trees in my neighborhood, and on the highway a ways south from my home we had 8-9 semis blown over.