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09-10-2007, 10:32 AM | #1 |
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09-10-2007, 10:33 AM | #2 |
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I remember this area when the tornado hit. Just drove back home from Georgia and couldn't believe the intersection of Airline and Texas.
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09-10-2007, 05:45 PM | #3 |
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I was directly in the path of that monster! It was an F5, and a night I'll NEVER forget! The scene at Bossier General Hospital was incredible-
Since we're on this topic; I wonder if anyone on this board has the "picture book" of this Tornado? We had one when I was young, but no-one in the family knows what happened to it It was a small white book with 30 or so pages filled with pics of the storm. If anyone out there knows what I'm talking about, please let me know! I want the info(publisher,etc.) to see if I could get one-THANKS!(I already tried the library) |
09-10-2007, 06:03 PM | #4 |
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Those nights around here in winter when the air is heavy and still. When it is way too warm and balmy. Something is so not right. I was hanging on Emery St., which is basically I-20 and Hearne, that Sat. night. It was probably about 2:00a.m. Sunday morn when the oddity that was the weather brought me out to eyeball it. The strange color and the even stranger "feel". I dragged everyone out for a look but they weren't as caught up in it as I and went back inside. I stayed out there looking at the sky for about an hour or so knowing that something was amiss. It was at this time Bossier was plowed over and I didn't even know it. News trickled in Sunday and by Monday everyone knew the extent of the damage. It had turned cold and I got off work about 1:00 and drove over to check it out. I still can't describe it to this day.
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09-10-2007, 07:27 PM | #5 |
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I had just moved from New Jersey to south Bossier City about a year before this happened. I remember the weird looking weather. My brother who had been out driving around at some point, described the sky as being GREEN.
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09-10-2007, 08:16 PM | #6 |
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that little book is out of print but there is a copy of it at the main library. you could copy it for bout 3 bucks.
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09-11-2007, 10:24 AM | #7 |
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