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Homes In Tornadoe’s Path Heavily Damaged

March 29, 2009

It only took seconds for Saturday night’s storms to rip from Jackson Heights, the Boys and Girls Club and then wind through nearby neighborhood streets. Trees toppled onto homes, vehicles were crushed and debris flew through the air. Miraculously, only three persons at Jackson Heights Shopping Center were injured. And those were minor. Scott and Wedgewood Streets along with Allen Avenue and East Chatham Court were the residential areas hit the hardest.The National Weather Service has determined that tornadoes did the damage. Winds were estimated to be in the 70 to 80 mile per hour range.

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(left above) Homes were pelted with flying debris and trees fell on the structures. (right photo) Winds were so strong that large old trees were totally uprooted and fell over.

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One home would have heavy damage and the neighbor did not get harmed at all. Sunday brought neighbors out of their homes to help each other. Chain saws were roaring and teams of friends helped others recover from the winds that swept the area around 7:00 o’clock Saturday night (3/28/09).

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Written by BartWalker · Filed Under News 

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7 Responses to “Homes In Tornadoe’s Path Heavily Damaged”

  1. Jimmy Lee on March 29th, 2009 5:36 pm

    I’ve lived here all my life, and have never seen a radio station run circles around newspapers. Thanks for your radio coverage telling us what to do as the storm approached, and then showing us what happend when the storm hit. I started listening to you as a school kid in the 3rd grade. WGNS was the local top 40 station, and as I have grown and changed, so has the radio station. It is exactly what we need to know what is happening locally. Thank you very much.

  2. Kenn Alan on March 29th, 2009 7:21 pm

    I just read all of the NOAA weather data from Rutherford County and I must say that it was a phenomenal chain of weather events that happened extremely fast to cause all of that damage.

    I used to buy shoes at Liz and Marti’s when it was on the square. Wow! Jackson Height’s Plaza got it bad too!

    Leave it to the pros to take the lead in reporting in your community. They don’t call them the “Good Neighbor Station” for nothing!

    Glad you’re okay, Bart! Sorry about the theater though.

  3. Tilbow Wilderschmidt on March 29th, 2009 11:10 pm

    I have one of those cheap weather units and it records the highest wind speed, temp, etc. in a 24 hour period. I live in the tornado area and my max wind was 73 mph. Thanks also for the excellent on-air storm coverage. Bryan’s reports helped my family to take cover in time. One of my neighbor’s trucks was damaged and several nearby homes got heavy damage. Fortunately, we just had must metal and trash in the yard.

  4. Happy on March 30th, 2009 1:34 am

    Tornadoe Tomatoe Tornado Tomato

    Thanks for the coverage!

  5. Curtis on March 30th, 2009 7:45 am

    Saturday night as the weather was going down hill fast, my wife and I went to the basement, turned on WSMV, with the sound down so we could see the radar and then turned on WGNS, sat back had a couple of good cold Miller High Life’s, hit the bong a couple of times.

    Thanks for the great coverage guys! We were as safe as if we were in our mother’s arms.

    YOU GUYS ROCK!!!!!

  6. Bob on March 30th, 2009 10:26 am

    After while, I don’t think Curtis was aware of the storm. He must have been in “la la land”. Our family was braced for the high winds and they came, but fortunately did not do damage at our house. A block away a neighbor’s truck was crushed by a falling tree. On Sunday neighbors went out to help others in the area. It was a great feeling.

  7. Sam Nabors on March 31st, 2009 4:57 am

    Ole Curtis ain’t no fool. he’s got the right idea…..storm preparedness. He has his “safe place’” and his “means” to ride out the storm.

    He’s a smart fellow!!

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