617Dambusters

On Thursday March 1, 2007, 9:15 PM Eastern Time, an F3 tornado touched down in southwest Georgia. 36 miles later, the longest tornado track in history, it hit Americus Georgia where my son attends College. I found him about 11:30 PM and he also worked Search and Rescue with me. The thing stayed in contact with the ground longer than any other tornado in history. To end it's run, it cut a 1 mile wide by 3 mile long path, right through Americus. Ground zero for Americus was the only Hospital in the town.

I arrived there at about 10:45 PM with the Crisp County Fire Rescue and we performed, along with hundreds of others, search and rescue until about 6:00 AM in the morning when relief arrived.

Lots of damage here:

http://www.americusradio.com/Tornado%20index.html

Thats a whole lot of destruction... hope there was to many casualties.

I'm happy in Norway...

umm i think he's wrong about it being longest on ground our may 3rd tornado of 99 was on the ground for almost 40 miles and a lot more damage. I tell you you don't know fear until ur looking at 1 of those suckers coming ur way!!

hiiamben wrote:umm i think he's wrong about it being longest on ground our may 3rd tornado of 99 was on the ground for almost 40 miles and a lot more damage. I tell you you don't know fear until ur looking at 1 of those suckers coming ur way!!

You havent met my wife ! Now thats fear.



Looks around to see if she is near as i write this.

Bundyrum wrote:You havent met my wife ! Now thats fear.

HAHAHAHAHA... right on the spot bundy! I know what you meen.

I need to hide my computer after this.