Comment: Can a tornado turn over a uranium truck, blow uranium dust out of the pits or even worst? Last week Pittsylvania County had a tornado, well......
By John Crane
Published: July 17, 2009
HURT — The National Weather Service confirms that a tornado touched down in the northern part of Pittsylvania County on Friday morning.
The weather service says an F-1 tornado, with winds up to 110 mph, touched down in the Hurt area at about 10:50 a.m. The twister was on the ground for only a couple of minutes.
Lightning, hail and strong winds tore though area, uprooting trees, scattering debris and leaving one man temporarily homeless after a tree crashed through the roof of his house.
Rusty Shelton was at work in Lynchburg when his friend Barry Farmer called to tell him a tree had fallen on his home.
“I don’t even know what to say, to be honest with you,” Shelton said Friday at his home at 217 Grove St. in Hurt.
The tree was ripped from the ground in Shelton’s backyard and fell through his roof at about 11:15 a.m., tearing into the home’s bathroom and hallway. Farmer, who lives nearby on West Spencer Road, happened to be in the neighborhood just after the incident. Farmer entered the home and turned off the electricity and water to prevent a fire.
“He’s my eyes when I’m not here,” Shelton said of Farmer.
Shelton, who’s lived in the home for about 25 years, said his home insurer will provide housing at a hotel.
“I’ll get it (the tree) removed and go from there,” he said.
Shelton felt lucky he was not at home when the tree fell.
“It looks like it worked out as good as it could,” he said.
Though Shelton’s neighbors along Grove Street avoided home damage, they experienced their share of shaky moments.
H.A. Merricks, who’s lived on the street for about 35 years, had about a half-dozen trees down in his yard Friday. One of them fell on power lines and blocked Grove Street near its intersection with Lynn Street. Merricks had helped a neighbor move furniture about 11 a.m. when he came home, sat down and saw the sky darken.
“All of a sudden, the house started quivering,” Merricks said, adding that it felt “like a train passing through.”
“It was a roaring noise,” he said.
He saw a tree beside the front of his house fall.
“I knew something was wrong when I saw the roots,” Merricks said.
Patsy Nuckols, who also lives on Grove Street, said “It was raining so hard you couldn’t see out the win-dow.”
Daniel Moorefield said he was sleeping when he was awakened by a loud boom. He saw lightning shoot up from the top of the trees near his bedroom window. He said his sister and her friend had returned from a morning run and told him a tree had blown by his room and missed his window by inches.
Capt. Donald Motley of the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said Shelton’s home was one of three in the northern part of the county damaged by fallen trees. Others on Country Club Road and Harber Drive just off Rockford School Road were also hit, Motley said. The area had been under a tornado warning Friday morning and one resident reported seeing a funnel cloud during the storm.
Some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Pittsylvania County included Prospect Road, West Spencer Road, Grove Street, Lynn Street and the 14000-block of Rockford School Road, Motley said.
No storm-related injuries were reported, Motley said.
While felled trees, limbs, downed power lines and debris littered parts of roads, no weather-related accidents were reported, said Virginia State Police 1st Sgt. David Cooper.
http://www.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/severe_storms_rolling_through_area/12516/
By John Crane
Published: July 17, 2009
HURT — The National Weather Service confirms that a tornado touched down in the northern part of Pittsylvania County on Friday morning.
The weather service says an F-1 tornado, with winds up to 110 mph, touched down in the Hurt area at about 10:50 a.m. The twister was on the ground for only a couple of minutes.
Lightning, hail and strong winds tore though area, uprooting trees, scattering debris and leaving one man temporarily homeless after a tree crashed through the roof of his house.
Rusty Shelton was at work in Lynchburg when his friend Barry Farmer called to tell him a tree had fallen on his home.
“I don’t even know what to say, to be honest with you,” Shelton said Friday at his home at 217 Grove St. in Hurt.
The tree was ripped from the ground in Shelton’s backyard and fell through his roof at about 11:15 a.m., tearing into the home’s bathroom and hallway. Farmer, who lives nearby on West Spencer Road, happened to be in the neighborhood just after the incident. Farmer entered the home and turned off the electricity and water to prevent a fire.
“He’s my eyes when I’m not here,” Shelton said of Farmer.
Shelton, who’s lived in the home for about 25 years, said his home insurer will provide housing at a hotel.
“I’ll get it (the tree) removed and go from there,” he said.
Shelton felt lucky he was not at home when the tree fell.
“It looks like it worked out as good as it could,” he said.
Though Shelton’s neighbors along Grove Street avoided home damage, they experienced their share of shaky moments.
H.A. Merricks, who’s lived on the street for about 35 years, had about a half-dozen trees down in his yard Friday. One of them fell on power lines and blocked Grove Street near its intersection with Lynn Street. Merricks had helped a neighbor move furniture about 11 a.m. when he came home, sat down and saw the sky darken.
“All of a sudden, the house started quivering,” Merricks said, adding that it felt “like a train passing through.”
“It was a roaring noise,” he said.
He saw a tree beside the front of his house fall.
“I knew something was wrong when I saw the roots,” Merricks said.
Patsy Nuckols, who also lives on Grove Street, said “It was raining so hard you couldn’t see out the win-dow.”
Daniel Moorefield said he was sleeping when he was awakened by a loud boom. He saw lightning shoot up from the top of the trees near his bedroom window. He said his sister and her friend had returned from a morning run and told him a tree had blown by his room and missed his window by inches.
Capt. Donald Motley of the Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said Shelton’s home was one of three in the northern part of the county damaged by fallen trees. Others on Country Club Road and Harber Drive just off Rockford School Road were also hit, Motley said. The area had been under a tornado warning Friday morning and one resident reported seeing a funnel cloud during the storm.
Some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Pittsylvania County included Prospect Road, West Spencer Road, Grove Street, Lynn Street and the 14000-block of Rockford School Road, Motley said.
No storm-related injuries were reported, Motley said.
While felled trees, limbs, downed power lines and debris littered parts of roads, no weather-related accidents were reported, said Virginia State Police 1st Sgt. David Cooper.
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