Tornado has landed!! Pray!!

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Ah!!!

A tornado, either F4 or F5, has touched down RIGHT BEHIND MY HOUSE!!

There is debris and other forms of trash hitting my/Kaoru's house!! Many of the neighbors have called the cops to come check if my family and I was ok. We are, but the tornado did hit VERY CLOSE. So close the roar of a train could be heard pretty much in the trees behind my house.

I'm ok, thankfully, I said my prayers and hoped for the best! Now, I do know that the tornado hit my school and does not know if we are having school tomorrow.

So, if you wouldn't mind, please pray. Not just for me, but for the people whose houses have probably been destroyed. Let's pray again that they didn't die.

The bad storms, from what I saw on the radar, are heading towards Alabama, Georgia, and other states to the east.

Now to tell how I felt during the storm.. :

Ok, I freaked the freak out, bro! Me and Kaoru bawled like babies and hyperventilated.
I knew I heard the hum of what sounded like a microwave, until me and Kaoru looked dead at each other and panicked like spazzing turds. Lol

Me and Kaoru, since we know the school procedure, ducked and covered like soldiers during the WWs.

Well, we were squashed by our parents like momma and daddy birds do to their young. Well, that's pretty much my story of my VERY FIRST TORNADO! HOW COOL IS THAT! Anyway, This is very terrifying, but exhilerating at the same. Well, Gotz to go make texting rounds to make sure my other buds are ok, also. Byezz

[Karkat Vantas]

My story of my first tornado...?

I slept through the damn thing I wouldn't know.

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Lolol.

You should at least have ducked or hid in a safe place besides a bed. THE DAMN THING WENT OVER MY HOUSE. I would never sleep through that!

[Karkat Vantas]

Friggin tornadoes man...

[DemonousNight]

...I have been through two tornado...and if you live in Mississippi then its all over the news! NO PEOPLE WERE KILLED (that are recorded ;- AND THERE WERE MINOR INJURIES!!! c: Your school was shut down and a truck was found upside down in the baseball cort: From CNN V
Emergency officials in seven Mississippi counties were dealing Monday with widespread damage after a swarm of storms swept through the area Sunday evening, injuring scores of people.

No deaths have been reported.

Two people in Lamar County were critically hurt, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said.

A tornado struck Hattiesburg, a southern Mississippi city that straddles Lamar and Forrest counties. The Weather Service described the storm as packing 170 mph winds -- an EF-4 on the service's tornadic scale.

The scale ranges from EF0 to EF5.
Photos: Tornado wreaks havoc in Mississippi Photos: Tornado wreaks havoc in Mississippi
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Mayor: 'We've been blessed'
Watch tornado bear down on Mississippi
Watch tornado bear down on Mississippi

Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree reported major damage to a number of buildings. "If there is a good thing about this, it happened on a Sunday when most of these structures were vacant," he said.

Tornado sirens were activated 20 to 30 minutes before the twister touched down, DuPree said. "I think that was enough for people to find shelter, to go to a place in their house that was safe," he added.

Several homes were destroyed in Marion County, and numerous structures -- including businesses and public buildings -- sustained "significant damage," the state emergency management agency said.

As of Monday morning, 4,000 power customers were without electricity, down from the approximately 14,000 who had lost power, Mississippi Power spokesman Mark Davis said.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant declared a state of emergency for the affected counties. The declaration means state resources and assets can be used to support local response efforts. Some 63 people were treated at area hospitals, most of them for minor injuries, he said.

Some 200 mobile homes were damaged or destroyed, and 100 apartments were damaged and uninhabitable, he said.

Bryant tweeted photos of the storm damage.

iReporter shopping at Target captures video of tornado

In Hattiesburg, the University of Southern Mississippi suffered damage to several buildings, but there were no reports of injuries there. The campus was already closed because of Mardi Gras and was to remain closed through Tuesday; classes were canceled through Wednesday.

"We never lost power," said Joe Paul, vice president for student affairs, in a statement on the school's website. "The cafeteria is up and running, and everyone is fine."

University police declared a state of emergency and urged those not on campus to stay away until further notice.

Nearby Oak Grove High School also suffered damage. Randy Wright posted photographs to his Twitter account, showing debris strewn on what appeared to be a parking lot and a truck upside down in a baseball diamond.

The Hattiesburg Public School District canceled classes Monday.

"There's quite a few homes without power at this point," Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee said. "Quite a few trees on houses, on cars, that type of thing."

Ten to 15 people were hospitalized, but none suffered serious injuries, he said.

It was not clear how those people were hurt.

Sarah Lawrence, a Hattiesburg resident, said the storm sounded like "stuff being thrown."

"Within seconds, everything changed," she said. "I didn't feel like there was much notice. I heard the sirens and everything looked OK outside, so I started making preparations to go into the bathroom. And then, next thing I know, all the lights went out, and it got dark outside."

[Raven]

We've had meteors and meteor showers over here.
We're supposed to get one today, hopefully not as bad as the one that landed in Russia.

[Deleted]

WTF

Meteor....??

[DemonousNight]

DID YOU SURVIVE?!! -stupid question-

[Deleted]

Yes, But my best friends house was gone, mine had trees piled everywhere around my house, but my house is perfectly fine.

I've been blessed.

[DemonousNight]

o-o...poor trees...I MEAN tell your friends I give them my prayers heh...

[Deleted]

Ok. ^^

The trees is all my science teacher cared about. "Bad weather ruins wild life!!" <-- Teacher's words.

[DemonousNight]

o-o...thats...amazing...

[Deleted]

Yup.

I kinda hated her for that.

[DemonousNight]

So she doesn't care about you?

[Deleted]

I'm pretty sure she just cares about her own animals and the enviroment..

She is an enviromentalist. ^^