Yep indeed last night we got a direct hit by what was officially
determined by NOAA to be an EF-1 tornado. People and dogs are fine,
biggest trees in the bottomlands are pretty much all down (one on the
house as Channel 17 showed), house has fixable roof damage, a
partially crunched back porch, and one broken window (i.e. we got off
REALLY easy on the structural damage!).
Bird relevant content: The Pileated Woodpeckers and Carolina Wrens
seemed especially agitated today in the aftermath. It has got to be
as disorienting for them as it is for us. Fortunately we do still
have many medium sized trees of a wide range of species banged up but
standing in the bottomlands, and the upland forests on the edge of
the storm track are mostly still forests, just with a somewhat opened
canopy. There will be huge slash piles from the salvaging of large
trees that fell in places where they can't just be left (like on the
house, blocking the road, etc.). It will definitely be interesting to
see if the species composition of my ordinary yard birding changes
notably in the coming years.
The centuries-old oak trees lying on the ground are a sad sight, but
they died the natural death that old oaks have been dying in TN for
uncountable millennia. Better than being sacrificed to a road
widening or a new strip mall!
Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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