I
hope you weren't involved in all that bad weather the last few years.
Hey Caney,
Well...... let me tell ya!
May 05, 2003 Tornado ripped through downtown Jackson, I was making a key for a car when the warning went out for a few miles west of my location.... I told customer I would do job the next morning and fled as fast as I could get home to be with my family. 15 minutes after I left, that entire neighborhood was LEVELED. God was watching out for me without a doubt!
February 5th, 2008 Major storms coming. Most storm don't make me very nervous. I have lived in my home for 11 years and have always stayed in the hallway during tornado warnings. This storm was coming hard and fast. An uncle that lives in Memphis called ahead and warned us that this one was "bad". I started calling neighbors looking for a basement to crawl into. Fire department put us on alert. Storm got close, hit Union University dorms.... full of people, but no fatalities. many trapped. Our fire department was leveled. The path it took was less than a mile from my house, but luckily we were spared. Our yard was full of debris, but none of it was ours. Fire dept called and I left my family in the neighbors basement to go start searching for people. Spent the next 20 hours or so clearing houses and making certain that all were accounted for. Then we started picking up the pieces at our fire station.
All is well, our station has since rebuilt and expanded. Many of the homes affected are being rebuilt as well. You can still drive through town and see the path it took, though.
