[moxie]

Eastern and Southeastern KY (where I am) got hit badly by tornadoes this evening. Morgan County was one of the areas hit on Wednesday by an EF2 and got hit again tonight. By at least an EF3 tonight was about a 1/2-mile wide, National Guard are being sent in. Destroyed the downtown of the town of West Liberty. I think about another 5 or 6 hit in our area.

One county in the area (Laurel County) has 4 deaths.

I was fortunate in that my county didn't get hit. But we were on a warning for about 2 hours about 4 hours ago. And it's storming badly right now...1-2 inch diameter hail.

You don't hear about tornadoes much here mainly because it's the mountains. Tornadoes in the mountains are scary because they just bounce around.

We were fortunate here in my immediate area because they closed and cancelled things before the storms started. It's a Friday night and the weekends are the main time people come out around here from the hollers, so by closing things it kept people safe and able to stay protected from the bad rains here. Flash flooding and mudslides in my immediate area.

Please, if you live in the path of these storms, don't go out in them. Take shelter.