Sitting At The Cellar

Brent, Stacey and Linda came home yesterday about 10:30 AM and unloaded a truck load of 'stuff' that we had left at the Smith's Grove trailer. They came inside after unloading the junk and talked about the people that are supposed to buy the trailer. We went to Hamilton's BBQ and ate lunch and then back home. The weather reports were predicting severe weather and I told them they shouldn't head back to Smith's Grove with the utility trailer yet. The Nashville channels were breaking in on regular programing with reports of tornadoes predicted by radar. We kept watching and eventually people were reporting tornadoes on the ground just north of Nashville in the Rivergate Mall area. It was easy to keep track of the 'super cells' as they moved across the state towards Burkesville. The Nashville news programs were showing pictures of baseball size hail and reporting fatalities from the storms. I waited until the storm that had produced tornadoes on the ground and killed several people was about 30 miles away from our house, then we loaded into the Mule and rode it down to the cellar near the creek. We took lawn chairs and lanterns along with our weather radio and flashlights. We set the chairs inside the smokehouse and I went over and picked up Regina, she was ready to move to her cement block well house, having already put a chair, flashlight and bottle of water in there in case she needed to take cover. We returned to the smokehouse and we all set there and talked for about 45 minutes. The storms never arrived and we never actually went down the steps in the cement cellar, we did get a light rain and a little thunder, but that was about it, no wind or severe weather. I took Brent and Stacey back to the house and returned the Mule for Linda to take Regina back to her house. Brent and I looked at the radar images on the PC and it looked like the same storm that had caused several deaths near Nashville simply divided and went around us at Burkesville. Linda and Brent hooked up the utility trailer and headed back to Smith's Grove about 6:30 PM.
Nashville reported at least 167 homes destroyed near Galatin and 11 confirmed deaths so far. The news has reported about 27 tornadoes in TN. There were a few tornadoes in KY also.