Well Folks,
On Friday afternoon, my town of Murfreesboro was clobbered by tornadoes (at least four at last count). The largest is going to be classified as an EF-4 (166-200mph). It was on the ground for 23 minutes and destroyed a path 15 miles long by 1/2 mile wide. It missed my house by about a block and a half on one side, jumped over, and landed again about a block the other side! I will post pics later when I get a chance.

When I got home from work and entered my neighborhood, all I saw was a huge debris field and was certain that my house was gone - but thankfully it was not my debris.
100 homes destroyed, 700+ damaged...but only 2 fatalities that we know of.
Spent the weekend without power or internet access, but at least my house, my girlfriends house, and her daughter and parents were missed.

But over the weekend, I was given tickets to Todd Rundgren at the Belcourt Theater in Nashville - holds about 500 people.
Great show! His new CD contains some really good music and of course, he played a lot of old stuff as well. Todd still brings it!

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WOW TC,

I'm glad you and yours are OK, shame about the others who were hit
Todd Rundgren, there's a blast from the past. I must look out my copy of Ra, it's been years since I heard that.

It seems as though there are disasters everyday! Good Lord! Not only that, but the same areas are hit over and over again! I can't even find the words for some of the tragic things going on. I live in PA... and even if we get a little drizzle, the people on the news calls it a "storm"...

And speaking of PA...

Todd Rundgren was one of my favorites growing up... I was really influenced by his solo stuff that he did by himself. I'm glad some thing put a little cheer into your weekend...

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As most of you know i too am from tennessee and my uncle was working in murfeesboro at the time and has a video of the ef 4 and it was huge he had to take cover and said he saw 6 that day because of the supercell that blew through there i had to take cover in my hometown because we were under a tornado warning only my grandpa's shed was destroyed and nobody was hurt

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Dude I heard Murfreesboro got tore up. My mother was workin at the big verizon place up there by that old antique place and they had to go to the bottom of the place.

Glad your alright. I feel for the more unfortunate people there. Sort of puts things in persepective.

Troublecall, glad to hear you and yours are okay, and my thoughts are with the whole town as they start rebuilding.

I saw Todd Rundgren in Oshkosh, WI last summer. I was delighted when he did "Open My Eyes', the Nazz song off the first Nuggets album, and was even more delighted that I wasn't the only one there who knew it.

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TC , Bro , so sorry for those in your area who were affected by the storm , super glad you are ok . thanks for the part about todd i like him too.

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I know bro, My heart go's out to all of you. I live just a little North of you. We were a lot lucker in area. You Folks get hit a lot. We feel you and our thoughts and prayers are with you. Take care and Keep The Faith.

Sorry !!! I am glad you are ok

Good to hear you are ok. Tornadoes are a problem here in Minnesota too. You just never know when and where they will hit - and when they do it is usually a mess with great sadness all about.

I hope that is the last of them for a long time...................

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Glad you and your family are ok.

Much love from here in Ireland.


CC

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I'll tell you, I live in South Florida and from May1 to Nov 30, I keep an eye on the weather every night for hurricane development. Got through Wilma with just minor damage to my house at the time and all my palm trees down, but at least we had days of warnings and hurricane shutters. Tornadoes, on the other hand, I see those videos and they scare the s**t out of me...

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Here are some of the pictures of my neighborhood. All of these were taken about a block from my house, except for the gutter debris on the lightpole - which was about 3 doors down!
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