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I hope you folks down in Simpsonville are all OK. Looks like it got pretty rough! Up in Tigerville, we got a grand total of 3" from all of this weather. Nothing violent, though, just blessed rain.
The tornado hit my neighborhood. Thank goodness my house only sustained light damage, but many in my neighborhood have major damage. Looks like a war zone in one section. One house I feel may be totally destroyed, since the second floor is caved in and one whole wall is gone. Several houses lost entire walls, lots of siding torn off, many fences down, trees down.
Power is still out in that area (thankfully again, we were spared) as of 6AM this morning. (All of the neighborhoods surrounding Braisher campus seem to be out).
Braisher Middle College and Greenville Tech - Braisher is closed today.
How horrible. I never really think of tornadoes around here but of course they aren't that rare. Hope everyone is safe.
Talking to many of my neighbors, few took the warnings seriously, since tornado's here are so rare.
You think that you would have time, like when you watch it on TV and see the tornado a mile away in a field or something....but it's not like that. It comes on you like the blink of an eye...does it's destruction...and has moved on equally as fast.
So in the future, heed the warnings if you get them.
...Talking to many of my neighbors, few took the warnings seriously, since tornado's here are so rare...
My wife and I are from Birmingham, AL - part of "Dixie Alley" - our weather radio would routinely go off for multiple tornado warnings yearly - James Spann (local ABC weather person there) is considered a celebrity because he's broadcasting live alerts all the time!
Then, we moved to Upstate SC - no alerts for years (it's been refreshing). I texted my wife Wed evening re the tornado warning - basically, she minimized the alert. She was shocked to see the damage in Simpsonville the next day (as we've never seen anything like that in SC).
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I can only think of 4 or 5 right off the top of my head in the upstate within recent years. Seems like most of them were in odd months, like November and seems like 1 in January. I had one very close to my house, lifted the double wide off the blocks and dropped it right back down. Then it moved on closer to my house and pretty much dissipated 300 feet from my house. I remember the trees just kinda laying over and then coming right back up and the wind just dieing off very fast. Closest Ive ever been to one, and hope to never go through that again.
I took this one seriously because of 3 things: unseasonably warm weather could unleash a huge amount of energy when clashing with cooler weather, the rotation seen in Williamson/Piedmont, and the accompanying rain front which could hide the funnel.
Now, this is what I call rain! Hate being stuck inside, but happy to have this much needed rain. My plants are happy too. Seems it's going to be a every-other-day event for the next few days. Looks like it will be nice tomorrow, and perfect for getting some more of my plants planted in the ground!
The tornado hit my neighborhood. Thank goodness my house only sustained light damage, but many in my neighborhood have major damage. Looks like a war zone in one section. One house I feel may be totally destroyed, since the second floor is caved in and one whole wall is gone.
You are correct. That is our house and it will have to be taken down. Thankfully nobody got seriously hurt.
We have amazing friends and neighbors. We have received so much help that I don't even know where to begin to thank everyone. We do not take any of it for granted.
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Hate being stuck inside, but happy to have this much needed rain. My plants are happy too. Seems it's going to be a every-other-day event for the next few days. Looks like it will be nice tomorrow, and perfect for getting some more of my plants planted in the ground! 
