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tornadoes in North Carolina and Virginia

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Hi Clay,
Good to see your post.  I assume that means that you are nowhere near the area where the latest tornadoes struck.  What about our Virginia friends? 
Mary Lou

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  1. Hi Clay,
    Good to see your post.  I assume that means that you are nowhere near the area where the latest tornadoes struck.  What about our Virginia friends? 
    Mary Lou

  2. Hi Clay,
    Good to see your post.  I assume that means that you are nowhere near the area where the latest tornadoes struck.  What about our Virginia friends? 
    Mary Lou

  3. I’ve just talked to Bill and Mary Ellen Gould, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. They had a lot of wind—but nothing when you look at the news about Raleigh.  Bill said a big tree came down on a ten-foot easement between their garden and the neighbors’, but didn’t touch his daffodil beds or his rows of boxwood seedlings.
    Loyce McKenzie

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  4. Is there a message here?  Does growing Daffodils confer some type of safety or good luck? 

     

    Colleen in NE Calif. where we do not have tornados – at least yet.

     

     


  5. Is there a message here?  Does growing Daffodils confer some type of safety or good luck? 

     

    Colleen in NE Calif. where we do not have tornados – at least yet.

     

     


  6. I believe there are widespread power outages and phone lines down in Gloucester. William & Mary put out a notice this morning that all phone service to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science was out today and they would let people know when it was back in service. WAVY-TV has some video online of the Middle School, which is uninhabitable.

    Debbie in NC (Prof. Emerita from W & M, but living many hours away in Western NC now)

    On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:56 PM, < title=> < title=> wrote:


    Fran just told me that the facebook says that Brent and Becky’s was missed but there is a lot of damage nearby and power outages in the Gloucester, VA area.  WTOP news in Washington DC reported there was about a 12 mile strip of damage near Gloucester ( I hope I’m not miss-quoting them.)

     

    I also have an email from friends in Charolettesville, Va.  They seem to have missed it as well. They made comments about the Raleigh, NC and other area damage.

     

    Hopefully we will get some posts soon from NC and Gloucester, VA.

     

    clay

    Clay Higgins
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  7. 

    Oregon doesn’t have hurricanes either but a couple years back they had a storm with winds recorded over 120 miles per hour.
     
    They just used a different name for what occurred !
     
    Miles and miles of trees snapped in two.
     
    Linda W.
     

  8. We are getting those wind storms here in NE Calif. too.  Just a couple of months ago the wind was clocked at 110 coming over the mountains across from our house.  We had a 92 mph wind come through the yard.  The power had gone out and I had lighted a kerosene lamp and then felt air circling my ankles and the windows were closed.  I blew out the lamp.  I prayed that none of the ancient elms in front of the house would lose a limb through a window.  As it turned out, a huge tree at the back of the house lost a limb that was as big as many old trees, but it fell on the fence and not the house.  Another time I was driving through the mountains NE of here and looked over to see the pines waving like gumbies or Fantasia.    This all why I said we don’t have tornados – yet; the weather is changing.  My Daffs were two weeks late and now the weather has turned bad again so the later blooming ones are yet to bloom. 

     

    Colleen NE Calif.

     

     


  9. Hi Clay,
    Good to see your post.  I assume that means that you are nowhere near the area where the latest tornadoes struck.  What about our Virginia friends? 
    Mary Lou

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