Nasty weather here in Alabama last night.

[Ben]

All of this that you see in the photos was 20 miles north of me.
MANY millions of $ of damage done in this state last night.
About 4 different tornadoes last night.
This is an insurance companies night mare.
Fortunately, my wife and I are OK and sustained zero damage.

Ben

 

[Brad]

Keep safe Ben.
We won't have weather like that for another 4-6 weeks then it gets real.

 

[Ben]

Thanks Brad !

Ben

 

[Brother_Love]

Ben, I saw some of this on the news, really serious weather. I'm glad you are safe.
Malcolm

 

[Ben]

Many thanks Malcolm !
Ben

 

[fiver]

wow.
hail like that is brutal, I hope nobody was hurt.

 

[Ben]

No deaths, but all the Insurance Co.'s will take a major hit ! !

Ben

 

[Rick]

Only got one thing to say . . . Holy Shit!

Glad you & yours got through it without injury or damage.

 

[Rick]

No deaths, but all the Insurance Co.'s will take a major hit ! ! Ben

Don't bank on that, their soon to be announced rate hikes will cover it.

 

[Ben]

Thanks Rick,
It was a very long night.
We were blessed to be spared , others here were not as fortunate.

Ben

 

[Brad]

We helped clean up tree debris for some friends hit by tornadoes last summer. One lost trees, their daughter lost an end wall of their home.
Seeing the destruction from even a "minor" tornadoes makes you appreciate things a bit more.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Ben
1) GLAD you guys are ok.
2) we were ALSO VERY lucky. SE Huntsville and I didn't even hardly get rain. It went just N and S of me, as it usually does. But still scared the snot out of us!
3) I heard the baseball sized hail reports. I grew up in Indiana as a kid, and saw that more than once. Actually saw nearly softball sized hail once. It will crash clear thru a roof - and drywall! I have never seen hail bigger than a 1/2 dollar/golf ball down South, and been DS over 25 years... But last night, hearing the baseball hail reports, was very scary indeed!
4) We are very lucky it wasn't another 2011 here with a bunch of people killed. I worked clean up on those for over a month. very sad.

 

[Rally Hess]

Glad your ok Ben. Here I was worried about Quicksilver and the storms by him last week. Didn't hear anything about the storms in your part of the country. News is too concerned with the Russian interference to report any real news.

 

[RicinYakima]

Ben, glad you and yours are safe. That makes Mount St. Helens look like a cake walk! I still have not recovered my insurance rates from Katrina and doubt I ever will. Ric

 

[smokeywolf]

Ben, very happy you and your Mrs. didn't incur injury or property damage. Don't worry about the insurance companies. They have every possible financial and weather computer model you could ever imagine and have allowed for worst case and still show a profit.

 

[Bret4207]

No deaths, but all the Insurance Co.'s will take a major hit ! !

Ben

You mean the clients will take the hit!

Stay safe. Our miserable cold temps and snow look pretty good compared to some of that crap you got.

 

[JWFilips]

Ben,
Thank GOD you are ok! We have had bad hail and destruction here but I have never seen anything like what was in those photo before!
I would imagine those things would kill
Jim

 

[Intheshop]

Thought about you Ben...and others when watching the weather news.Glad you made it safe.We got 6" of snow last night.Was hunting in the rain yesterday when Spring officially entered. Now,the first day of which.....am shoveling snow,duh.

 

[waco]

Scary stuff. Glad you are okay Ben. Stay safe.

 

[Wasalmonslayer]

That was defiantly a close call.
Thank god you came out unscathed!!