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[dgunnels]

Update...Finally spoke with Aunt Jean and Uncle Stump (No, not his given named but what we've always called him.) They are fine but no power last night. May be back up today.

Just to give you an idea, they live in a retirement community on the grounds of the Sumter Regional Medical Center. That's the one the media keeps showing. Can't believe there weren't more injuries with this one. Got an aerial look at the hospital today. So much worse than described.

Much more property damage than you are hearing about. Many homes damaged, some total losses in neighboring counties. Well, we've been here and done that before. We'll all take care of each other.

[dgunnels]

Here's a link with some pics. These were taken by somebody at a local radio station. The brick building is (was) the hospital. The white structure was a grocery store shopping center. Point of reference, the damage you see occurred about 20 miles north of my house. Lee Co. is right in the middle of most of these counties. Guess we were just lucky this time.

http://www.americusradio.com/Tornado%20index.html

Data from the Red Cross

South Georgia -- We now know more than a Thousand homes were affected by Thursday Night's Tornados.

According to the Red Cross, 263 Homes were destroyed in Georgia while another 398 sustained major damage and 421 have minor Damage.

And Sumter County was hardest hit. Half of the damaged or destroyed homes in the state are in Sumter County. 168 destroyed there with another 209 sustaining major damage. In all 517 homes in Sumter County were either destroyed or damaged.

In Baker County, 29 homes were destroyed and another 9 sustained major damage. 10 homes have minor damage.

In Worth County, 14 homes were destroyed. 9 have major damage and another 15 have minor damage.

In Mitchell County, 34 homes have major damage and another 16 homes have minor damage.

And over in Clay County, 5 homes were destroyed. 11 homes have Major Damage and another 25 have minor damage.

The Red Cross says their assessment is 90 percent Complete:

Totals (statewide for Georgia)
263 Destroyed
398 Major damage
421 Minor damage

Baker
29 Destroyed
9 Major damage
10 Minor damage

Clay
5 Destroyed
11 Major damage
25 Minor damage

Crawford
7 Destroyed
10 Major damage
16 Minor damage

Dougherty
0 Destroyed
0 Major damage
1 Minor damage

Mitchell
0 Destroyed
34 Major damage
16 Minor damage

Wilkinson
5 Destroyed
3 Major damage
2 Minor damage

McDuffie
9 Destroyed
44 Major damage
36 Minor damage

Muscogee
11 Destroyed
59 Major damage
152 Minor damage

Sumter
168 Destroyed
209 Major damage
140 Minor damage

Taylor
11 Destroyed
7 Major damage
8 Minor damage

Turner
0 Destroyed
3 Major damage
0 Minor damage

Warren
4 Destroyed
0 Major damage
0 Minor damage

Worth
14 Destroyed
9 Major damage
15 Minor damage

[Bugman]

Just a couple of weather related photos from the beach this past weekend. Daytime temps ranged from sunny and 70 to cloudy, windy and 50's.

[John Bridge]

Which beach would that be, Clyde? Got a big lake near Clemson?

[Marge]

Great pitchers Clyde!!!

And Spring is officially here...86 degrees today. A taste of things to come.....

[cx]

Couple big ol' lakes near Clemson, JB.

[flatfloor]

Looks like one of the great lakes to me.....Atlantic.

-1 with wind chill here last night. Up in the 50s come the weekend.

[Bugman]

Jim got it right, Atlantic Ocean. We spent a week at Litchfield Beach. It's between Georgetown and Myrtle Beach, SC. Great time to be there. Not many people, good temperature for walking on the beach much of the time, and very relaxing. Just what we needed.

[Marge]

Spring was here for 6 days of 80 degrees...typical PHX. Summer is officially here...90 flippin' degrees and our first two inside scorpions officially noted. (that's PC for annihilated) The solar cover goes on the pool tomorrow. Not that Shaka hasn't been swimming in 47 degree water this winter.....

[Tool Guy - Kg]

It reached 54 degrees, so I had the A/C inna truck running. Was lovin' that.

But today, it got up to 69 degrees and continued to be sunny, sunny, sunny........feels spectacular. Can't wait for summer.

[Marge]

Bubba...you and Wiley gonna get along great.....

[tileman2000]

Springs tryin to get here with it being 65 tomorrow,but it's suppose to be 35 friday...20 at night with a chance of snow,but winter has been mild so i can't complain.

[Jerry L A Tile]

Well It's still cool at night and mornings here but the mid days are startin to warm up again. Think its gettin in upper 70's now. Thank God I'll be gone from here in a couple weeks. All I have to say to Iraq is Not the people just the environment.

[dgunnels]

The usual strange stuff here, sweaters one day, shorts the next. Pollen is everywhere. Gonna be a bad year for me with that.

[Bugman]

Beautiful weather the past few days, lows - 40's & 50's, highs 70-80. I know what you mean about the pollen. Looks like it will be a rough spring. I've heard more people sneezing/coughing, etc the past week that I did all winter. I hope we get the rain they are predicting for Thursday & Friday.