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More Tornadoes for Tennessee

by SP on April 8th, 2006

storm clouds” In the second wave of violent weather to hit the state in less than a week, severe thunderstorms and tornadoes tore off roofs, overturned cars and left 11 people dead.”

Who would have thought that tornadoes could get hit the same area twice and within days of each other, but apparently that’s exactly what has happened. And packing more energy than the previous hurricanes that ripped through Florida , these tornadoes are leveling 500,000 dollar houses.

And we are not talking about just one tornado. At least ten were spotted in various parts of Tennessee. Are we done or are there more on the way? Obviously no one knows for sure, but “through the end of March, an estimated 286 tornadoes had hit the United States, compared with an average of 70 for the same three-month period in each of the past three years.” Now that is very scary stuff.

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