Tornado in the Florida Panhandle

[flhelo]

I know that there has been plenty of tornado activity lately, but KMAI (Marianna,Fl) had a tornado touchdown at approximately 0515 this morning. There was plenty of damage. Several aircraft were destroyed and alot more were damaged. Hanger walls were knocked down also. The EMS helicopter that is based there is going to have to be Low-boyed back to Eurocopter in Texas.  And 2 Mooney's were damaged.  As you can see in the pics, one of the Mooneys had some damage to the right front window and the left wing tip, No one was injured as of this posting.

Glad everyone was alright!!! 

This link will show some of the damage.

 

 

 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1796048696054&set=a.1796048496049.2096205.1084801958&type=1&ref=nfmaged.

[flight2000]

What is up with all these nasty storms?  Tornados and what not used to be pretty normal in the Midwest (OK, KS, NE, etc) and central Florida, but it seems like everyone is getting tagged this year. 

Stay safe out there, it's not even thunderstorm season yet...

Larry, couldn't get the link to come up on FB.

[DaV8or]

Quote: flight2000

What is up with all these nasty storms?

[flhelo]

Here are some pics

 

[flhelo]

More pics

[jelswick]

Wow!  One of those was almost unrecognizable as an aircraft other than the fact that it had an N Number on it.  Sad for those owners...

[flhelo]

And the last set. Sorry about so many pics. Wish I could have loaded the folder.

[sleepingsquirrel]

I had my planes moved into the hangar for Wednesdays storm. I still drove over to the airport on the way home only to find a couple of AN-2s had taxied (under wind power and no one at the controls)about a half to three quarters of a mile from their tie down. I know the tails were staked down with three one inch rebar driven into the ground. One of them got tangled in a taxi way drain the other left tracks through a muddy cotton field. A Cessna 150 and a 172 on tie down looked as if nothing had occured. These storms were fierce! I watched them march across North alabama on NOAA radar. Sure glad to have had mine in the hangar because a local Community College had lost lots of sheet metal roofing across the ramp. Weather underground (HSV) recorded 76 MPH winds feeding one of these tornadoes. About 11:45 the weather station at my field was blown away. We just got power back today, Sunday. I had turned my breaker off to keep things under control at my house when the power came back, I'm thinking now that I'm off the grid I'll just leave the damn thing off!
I'm just now seeing some of the damage on televison , there are so many affected by this from loss of life , loved ones missing, property damage, one of my co workers had his home wiped off the face of the earth! I've been lucky ,seriously thinking of building a storm cellar. I work in a regional trauma center , helicopters were off and on the roof nearly non stop last Thursday & Friday ,we accepted about 76 victims of these storms.
We were on emergency generators for about 48 hours and based on the utility reports were having diesel trailers brought on site plus more portable generators. Our Utility workers worked many miracles both large and small to restore power to vital services quickly. We are still running emergency power and helping ease the strain as power is slowly being restored to the community. Not Katria but tragic none the less.
People are finding debris from as far away as 135 miles away! Heck one fellow was telling that he had seen a frog turned inside out by this storm!
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