Saturday night we knew things were pretty scary, but never appreciated just how scary. Now Carol and I are home in our comfortable brick house watching the continuing news coverage about the NC tornadoes that night. One tornado, an EF3, touched down on Piney Green Drive in Camp Lejeune that night and caused massive damage to housing on the base. So I couldn't help but do a little research on Goggle Earth to see just how close we were to ground zero. A mere 9.3 miles !!!!!!!! This distance is huge in terms of escaping damage. But when it comes to being in the probable hit zone, we were right in there. There were 11 boats in Mile Hammock that night. The worst damage we saw was one boat dragging into another. I shudder to think what would have happened in the anchorage if this tornado was just 9.3 miles further to the south.
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