TN Check In
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Present and accounted for! Thanks to Rusty, Mike, Jim from Fly South, and all the other kind people who called to check in and offer their support.
Zach’s right – we got whacked pretty hard. My office is about 70 percent gone. I got back in for a little while Friday evening after everything blew over, and it looked like a bomb went off in there. Files and papers in tatters all over the floor. Luckily, we just started using a new case management program, and I was able to recover our server backup tapes safe and sound – so we’ve got all the essentials to keep our clients’ cases going. But it’s going to take at least a week of sorting through stacks of wet paper to salvage the physical files. I tried to go back today, but the police have everything locked down. The roof got ripped off our building, and we got a ton of rain last night, so I’m very afraid of what we’re going to find Monday morning. I’m assuming most of our computers, printers, scanners, copy machines, phones, and other electronic stuff will be ruined.
My mother’s house is severely damaged too, and it’s not clear what will be salvageable. She doesn’t have electricity, and it is extremely hard to get in or out of the area she’s in, so we’re going to be limping along for a day or two until that situation is straightened out.
The bright side is that my friends and family are all okay. We had a scary several hours for one of my paralegals who lives in Gallatin, because her husband and child were missing and her house was in the path of the worst part of the storm. Fortunately, they had fled for cover to a more solid building, and they turned up okay later in the evening.
Strangely enough, my house is only 20 minutes away from all the destruction at my office, and it wasn’t touched at all. In fact, I went out for a late lunch Friday, and I’d run home for a few minutes when my co-workers called from the office and said they were hiding in the basement. They were yelling for me to take cover, and I had no idea why. There wasn’t even any rain at my house – the wind didn’t even blow. It’s a good thing they called, or I might have driven back to the office and stumbled right into the path of the tornado. Storms are weird.
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Glad to hear you guys didn’t get it too bad up there CaneyB. I left work to go get my children and we got caught on the road. The only shelter we could find was Wal Mart so we ran into the store at the last min. The hail started about the time we got in the store and about that same time, my wife called to report a tornado sighting in our area. Needless to say, the sound of golf ball size hail coming down in torrents on a metal roof and wondering if that horrible sound was a tornado about to rip the building apart was a stressful few moments for everybody there. We left for home only to get hit again at the house with another severe hail storm. All ended well with the only damage being our vehicles and maybe the roof shingles. We are extremely thankful for that.
BTW CB, how does the river look?
Mike, the river is running clear, and it sure does look nice with this warm sun shining all over that thing, but it’s been wall to wall generation for the last few days.
Two or more on that narrow river is too much current for me. If they drop to one all day on a weekend, let’s go!
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