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Tornado Warning
Issued by The National Weather Service
End time : 07:15 PM EDT Sun, May 3, 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR WESTERN PICKENS AND NORTHWESTERN CHEROKEE COUNTIES...
AT 646 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SALACOA VALLEY... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO TALMADGE...HINTON...BLAINE AND TALKING ROCK.
THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO STRIKE TALKING ROCK AT 7:14 PM EDT/
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT WILL BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
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WouldntItBeGr8To
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May 3 @ 7:19PM
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Time to move, I don't get why people live where there are tornados and hurricanes 
Is there some thrill in it? 
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Etowah
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May 3 @ 7:51PM
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About 6:45 PM I was exercising my herd dogs in a high pasture and saw a strange looking, dark cloud off to the west. I thought at first it was a tornado, but it seemed way to big to be a tornado. Then the tornado sirens went off. It was a tornado!
I raced home to get its exact location and path from the online doppler radar. The thing was at least a quarter mile in diameter, but fortunately, it passed to the west of our neighborhood.
Bet somebody got walloped just now.
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ttomtarr
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May 3 @ 7:53PM
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If you never lived through a hurricane/hurricane party, you don't know w2hat a thrill is.
Tornados can be fun too. You have never really sailed until you use the wind pushing ahead of a waterspout (tornado over the water) to get up some speed. I've seen some kids sail their Hobie cat ten feet straight up into the air on one. Yeah, you mignt call that an adrenaline rush !
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oceanlover734
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May 3 @ 7:54PM
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They have been all around us here in Rome as well.
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ragtopcookie
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May 3 @ 8:07PM
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What i saw going the length of mississippi on saturday was enough for me.....we drove into a wall of water and it lasted ten miles......then somebody had commented on my blog that we just missed a tornado...back here in indiana we dont have such weather.....ive got skeeter bites all over my legs from being down south...but up here...they are not even out yet.........cookie
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EternalFlame
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May 3 @ 8:14PM
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Time to move, I don't get why people live where there are tornados and hurricanes
LOL, Gr8...the same reason some of us live where there are earthquakes. It's the scenery, the country, the people. Some of us fall in love with an area and choose to stay, regardless of what natural disasters might strike.
Having lived thru Loma Prieta, only 20 miles or so from the epicenter (as the crow flies), I still wouldn't dream of living anywhere but California.
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EternalFlame
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May 3 @ 8:16PM
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By the way...Gr8? Just how far are you from the San Andreas Fault, anyway? 
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AverageJoe
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May 3 @ 8:18PM
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I was near a couple of them in Tennessee. The damage that they do is unfortunate, but I must admit it's a pretty exciting experience.
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Etowah
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May 3 @ 8:18PM
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I think I will pass on the thrill of sailing in front of a waterspout.
Many moons ago, when I was 22, two friends and I were camping on an uninhabited island off the coast of Georgia. During the night a waterspout went through our campsite. We wrapped every thing we could find around us and our sleeping bags. I got knocked out by a tree limb or something. When I woke up in the morning, I was wrapped like a mummy by the tent and about 50 feet away from the camp.
I never, ever want to experience that thrill again!
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MrPaul
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May 3 @ 9:15PM
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stay safe  
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lisa46
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May 3 @ 9:28PM
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I never, ever want to experience that thrill again!
You gotta admit Mother Nature is amazing
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Etowah
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May 3 @ 10:12PM
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Theoretically, I shouldn't be alive now after experiencing a direct hit by a waterspout on a coastal island. If the tree limb that hit me had been a little bigger or if my tent had been a little closer to the edge of the marsh, I either would have had my head smashed flat or been hurled unconscious into the marsh beside the island.
One thrill like that is enough!
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