Anyone else around here getting pounded by these storms? We were fortunate here at our home that the storm just grazed us and went south. I've never seen those colors in radar before. Tornadoes apparently popping out all over the place (the same storms in Atlanta yesterday). Golf ball sized hail and horrible winds up to 90mph.

Just hope we've seen the last of these... there's still a few storms heading out of Georgia yet. NC got a few of these nasty things as well.

No fun. Anytime you have to clean out the closet and get all the animals - for just in case. Yeck.

Same over here... of course I am only on the other side of the river from you.

I didn't have my camera with me, but did head over to see the damage from the Elgin and Lugoff Tornado's. Mostly trees down everywhere, but did see a few buildings missing roofs.

Going from the radar images... it seems my neighborhood was missed by a few miles by the Tornado that went from Blythewood to Elgin.

I've been seeing and watching those storms in the US.

Australia has had an incredible and unprecedented run of heat in the 40 C degrees and just up the coast here in Mocambique there have been cyclones. In the Cape Town area there've been heavy winds for days with many losing homes and shelters. Where I am in Johannesburg, we are getting heavy rain which is not really seasonal as we are heading towords winter and will last for the next almost full week. Durban, not far from Mocambique (about 500 miles) has had rain floods like never before with residences covered in up to 6 foot of water.

Definetly doesn't seem like the normal climate conditions to me.

Not that I'm complaining about the rains where I am as I'm "restoring" the little patch of land where I'm building to it's natural habitat with only indigenous grasses, shrubs and trees, and the rain's been great for that. Sometimes it's just nice to have a few days of sunshine in between though.

Some of these were more serious than I thought. That F3 went just north of my parents... scary stuff

http://www.wltx.com/supplements/tornadomaplarge.jpg

Man, that is scary! Glad that ya'll are OK. We had a scare too last summer not 1/2 mile away, trees down blocking roads etc. but since it's not very populated, so it wasn't a called 'disaster' but it was bad enough for the people affected. I'll take the snow anyday.