A twister tore through Suffolk near Sentara Obici Hospital late Monday afternoon, destroying homes and businesses, blasting out windows, flipping cars, mangling power lines, and injuring some 200 people.
Were you caught in the middle of the storm? Did you take photos or shoot video?
These viewers did.
Videos:
-Storm chaser video: Tornado touches down in Suffolk (Do not try this from home unless you are a trained storm chaser.)
-Destructive tornado forms in Hampton Roads
-Suffolk funnel caught on tape
Photos:
Nearly 30 photos have been submitted to the Weather photo gallery.
Stories:
Hampton Roads residents share their tornado experience
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Looking for more:
Articles:
-Dangers remain for Virginians digging through twister debris
-About 140 Suffolk homes condemned for tornado damage (With Photos, GoogleMap)
-At least 200 injured but no deaths in Suffolk tornado (With Photos, video and Googlemap)
Official reports: Damage, closings, hotline
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Suffolk Va
Suffolk may become the role model in studies of how to survive a direct hit by a F3 tornado. It's incredible & (great) there was no loss of life. Great work everyone. I'm glad you are all still with us.
Email aftermath update
Here's what I sent to our family & friends via email:
Hello family.
We are currently still evacuated as of Tues night 8 pm. Our side of the subdivision was hit hard; many condemned houses. Perhaps you have seen our neighborhood on the news...Burnett's Mill.
Tornado hit strip mall (about 1/4 as the crow flies) uphill from us (Brand new and delicious Sal's Pizza is sadly no more), threw cars INSIDE OF the strip mall and a medical building, smashed some houses on the way in to the subdivision, headed toward us, then pulled up and flew over our street & house and then hit back down again hard less than 1/4 mile north of us in the next subdivision (golf course community Hillpoint Farms) , wiping houses completely off their foundations there. One foundation looks like a giant broom swept it clear. SO we were extremely fortunate.
On the news helicopter coverage our yard looks fabulous because it is so nice and full of fluffy-looking green stuff. Those of you who have seen our yard in person or possibly Google Earth know that our yard is actually BROWN. The green is unfortunately from all the downed trees on our property in front of and behind the house. Somehow nothi
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I am 14 years old and I go to nansemond river high school.We heard the tornado above us and we feared. When the tornado hit I was staying after school for earth science and I just want to say that I am from Saint Louis, missouri and I have been through alot of storms, but I have never been through something like this. I would have never thought that we Virginia, would ever get a tornado, hurricanes but not tornados.It just seems like a joke when I hear it on the news. And I will continue to pray for those and I am currently setting up a page on my site called "HOPE" at Mrsjolie.weebly.com about this and I hope everyone goes well. I am deeply sorry for everyone's loses.
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