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Old 09-21-2009, 02:14 PM
 
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
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The last one hit near Murfreesboro. With the number of thunderstorms we get, I'd be more worried about lightning.
It hit IN Murfreesboro about 1/2 mile from my house - an EF4. The damage was beyond words. Trust me, after seeing 1st hand what it did, you worry more about the tornado than lightning. It also killed a mother and her baby and injured many others.
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Old 09-21-2009, 07:34 PM
 
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Wow a coincidence to read this. At that time, '83, I was living in Austin, and as Lockheed Missles and Space was setting up operations there, they hired me and flew me to Sunnyvale, CA where I lived for a couple of months. I was sitting at my desk that day at about 5:30, and felt the rocking from that quake, about 3 HZ in frequency. Everyone sitting or standing still felt it and yelled "earthquake", people walking, running or riding didn't feel it. I think Sunnyvale is 200 miles away from the epicenter on that one.
It's a small world, indeed. I wasn't living there, I went in June of '83 and '84 to visit my brother who was stationed at an air base near Merced. He reported exactly what you did - he felt it sitting at his desk, but a guy walking back from the kitchen with a cup of coffee didn't. People looking out the window said they saw "waves" go across the parking lot, but the pavement didn't crack. Apparently it has some flex to it.
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Old 10-05-2009, 06:50 AM
 
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I'm really sorry that you had to live through such a horrible thing like that F4 that raged through Tennessee ...
I hope you can get past it !
Good luck in the future
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