Tornadoes and Moor's resort

[the_donger]

Well, as you probably know by now, Western KY (my neck of the woods) was slammed by tornadoes yesterday. I just got my phone and electric back on, it is around 11:00 pm here. I had no idea that tornadoes had even touched down here until I went to get some food at the local Wal-Mart. One of the ladies that worked there had a nephew that lived in a mobile home near Benton and he was killed when his trailer flipped and caught on fire and he burned to death.

While there I heard some bad news about Moor's Resort. As the crow flies, I live about 2 miles from Moor's and I had a hard time beleiving it (because of the lack of damage at my house and on the way to the store)so I went to Moor's to hear it straight from the horses mouth. The marina has basically been destroyed along with most of the boats and all of the campground. The cabins were not affected, neither was the restaurant or office. I was not allowed in to see the damage, they blocked off the road at the entrance. I talked to the guy sitting in his car at the blockade and he said that the store and the A and B docks had torn loose and were wedged against the breaker wall and basically destroyed, along with the boats attached to these docks. The parts of the docks closest to shore were severly twisted and bent and partially if not wholey unconnected and over by the breaker wall. The only boats not destrtoyed were the boats closest to shore on the part of the dock that did not come unattached. Most of these boats have been damaged.

He said that they would let boat owners in tomorrow after the have cleaned up the downed power lines and if you had a boat, call your insurance company because there is an 80-90% cahnce no your boat has been smahed to pieces.

My cable still does not work so I cannot tell you anything else that occurred around here, but one lady at the store said she had heard that there were 30 or more tornadoes in this part of the state and that Henry county TN (Paris Landing) had been basically destroyed. I do not know if that is true or not.

Anyway, please say a few prayers for these folks, they sure need it. Thanks.

[wish2fish]

does anyone know the approximate time this all this happened?

[Dave Stewart]

Around 2:15 p.m. give or take a few minutes.

[MarkW]

It's really bad there. Looks like total devastation:
http://www.wpsdtv.com/photos/Novemberstorms.html

[Moose1am]

I am sorry to heard about the damage and the deaths caused by those tornados. I hope they get the area cleaned up and back to normal as fast as they can.

I drove though Benton, KY many a times. I always had a good feeling when I went though Benton and Murry because I was just a few more minutes away from the start of my new fishing trip at KY lake.

I have some guys that I know that live near Springville,TN and they survived the storms. Springville is in the West Sandy Area of KY lake near Paris, TN in Henry Country TN.

Hate to hear that anyone got hurt by these twisters.

I think I am going to invest in one of those battery operated weater aleart radios. I know that I didnt' sleep well the last two days.

Wish you all well and glad that it was not any worse than it was. We had weather reports of lots of high winds that were roating on our doppler radars here in the Evansville, IN area. Those trailer parks are very vulnerable to high winds so if you live in one of them it would be wise to have an area to go to that has a basement or some other forum of shelter. A trailer can be replaced but a life... well that is a different story.

Hopefully everyone will have insurance and some helping hands down there to get things up and running again.

Regards,

Moose1am

[Roothead]

Dave, glad you are ok - was thinking about you and hoping you and your wife missed the brunt of the storm. Call if you need anything!

[Dave Stewart]

Thanks Todd

[RippinLip]

Dave

Mollie and I were thinking about you last night when we saw it on TV....glad you all are alright. Sad to hear about the Moors. Always loved staying there. Hope they can get it cleaned up. Praying for those who lost lives and property.

Buck

[Dave Stewart]

Thanks for your thoughts Buck...we were lucky for sure...praying here also for those less fortunate.

[wish2fish]

check out the web cam from moores. It hasn't been updated since 2:12 yesterday afternoon. Kind of spooky picture to!

[L=Link to web cam]http://www.weblanding.com/lakecam/30.htm[/L]

[Dave Stewart]

The tornado came thru about 1/4 mile from my house here...lots of damage for sure...my wife and I were lucky. We had plenty of warning here about the tornados on the television, radio and with the sirens going off all afternoon. Not sure how you could have missed all that...guess you did though or you would have heard on the media that they were requesting that people do not go near Moor's Camp road as the siteseers were impeding the rescue vehicles trying to get into the area.

[Moose1am]

Dave:
I am glad that you are ok. Man 1/4 mile that's cutting it close. We were both lucky this past two weeks. I too am praying for those that were less fortunate. I sure hope that they can recover quickly.

Regards,

Moose1am