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Tornado!

Shorty2U — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:18:09 GMT

Omg, they think a tornado hit a town a few towns over from us! VIdeos are out of funnels and a destroyed school so far! (Thank God no on was in the school as its Summer!).

There was also a confirmed tornado not far from my daughters the other week. This is all in PA and it is rare here but it can and does happen.

Lastly ABC local news was just on non stop interuppting my show saying tornado warnings in Jersey too but they just cancelled it from tornado to strong storms.

(We had a bad storm here tonight w winds, lightening and thunder, no tornado here in our town but wow that was close being a few towns over!).

I hope and pray everyone is and will be safe!

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JustJazzmom — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:22:26 GMT

Radar is showing very heavy rainfall near Philly right now (yellow on radar).

Stay safe everyone.

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Maxine49 — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:25:40 GMT

Where? My sister lives in Villanova, but she is Cabo San Lucas right now on vacation.

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Adelina — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:41:31 GMT

@Shorty2U, are you safe?!

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Kachina624 — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 01:58:44 GMT

I heard today they had a tornado near Venice, Italy that killed one person. I didn't know they had tornadoes in Europe.

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nunya — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 02:08:26 GMT

Shorty , there were warnings this afternoon in Western Pa. It would get windy and pour, then the sun would come out and the humidity would sky rocket. Then repeat, On and off all day.

Stay safe!

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LoriMI — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 03:26:56 GMT

stay safe.

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LilacTree — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:25:15 GMT

@Shorty2U wrote:
Omg, they think a tornado hit a town a few towns over from us! VIdeos are out of funnels and a destroyed school so far! (Thank God no on was in the school as its Summer!).

There was also a confirmed tornado not far from my daughters the other week. This is all in PA and it is rare here but it can and does happen.

Lastly ABC local news was just on non stop interuppting my show saying tornado warnings in Jersey too but they just cancelled it from tornado to strong storms.

(We had a bad storm here tonight w winds, lightening and thunder, no tornado here in our town but wow that was close being a few towns over!).

I hope and pray everyone is and will be safe!

It pretty much missed us by one town. We had some rain, but that was about it. Trees and power lines down, some destroyed roofs just one town over. Very strange these "new" types of storms in the northeast. They are very "hit or miss."

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Sweetbay magnolia — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:31:39 GMT

We're south of PA (VA) but I agree, (formerly known as Ford1224) that the storms have been erratic this year. A few weeks ago we had a sudden storm and I told my husband to do everything he needed to do that required electricity, because it was going to go out (thankfully, it did not). Turns out a tornado touched down about 5 miles away.

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Bird mama — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:31:09 GMT

@Shorty2U

You okay?

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LTT1 — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 17:38:14 GMT

@Bird mama @Shorty2U Hope everyone is OK... DD lives in PA and we did not hear of anything bad happening... like the time in Shreveport when tornadoes took the roofs off of the homes across the street... well... about a block away.

Stay safe... it appears that some more bad weather is on the way for the mid-west today.

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Shorty2U — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 16:06:55 GMT

Thanks for the replies. I am sorry I took so long to get back.

It has been confirmed that it was an E-F1 tornado with winds just over 100MPH!

The school is destroyed, and I didn't know at the time, but the Principal was in the school at the time and escaped unscathed (thank God). The school will rebuild (people are already helping w the clean up).

And we were fine here, we just had bad storms. (The tornado was towns away from us).