On April 10th, Good Friday, an F4 tornado half a mile wide traveled 23 miles through Murfreesboro. Unfortunately we were in it's path. 
Kandy and the boys were home and took shelter in a kitchen pantry that sits underneath the staircase. The storm came in through the front windows and out through the kitchen. It was truly the grace of God that Kandy even knew it was even headed our way, but that's a whole nother story. The barn and everything in it is completely gone, not one board was left behind. All 18 goats and 1 steer managed to survive. We have even seen one of the barn cats. These are some of the initial photos, taken within an hour of the storm as a seperate tornado was hitting only a couple miles away. They aren't sure how many different tornadoes there were, 3 or 4 is what I'm hearing. This first picture is our house. You can see the broken windows, twisted blinds, torn off chimney and missing pieces of roof.
These are the trees from our neighbors house that fell towards our house, on top of a hog shelter that came up from the field below.
Kandy and the boys were home and took shelter in a kitchen pantry that sits underneath the staircase. The storm came in through the front windows and out through the kitchen. It was truly the grace of God that Kandy even knew it was even headed our way, but that's a whole nother story. The barn and everything in it is completely gone, not one board was left behind. All 18 goats and 1 steer managed to survive. We have even seen one of the barn cats. These are some of the initial photos, taken within an hour of the storm as a seperate tornado was hitting only a couple miles away. They aren't sure how many different tornadoes there were, 3 or 4 is what I'm hearing. This first picture is our house. You can see the broken windows, twisted blinds, torn off chimney and missing pieces of roof.
These are the trees from our neighbors house that fell towards our house, on top of a hog shelter that came up from the field below.
This is a large board that was driven though a barn stall rubber mat.
If you've seen our house before you remember the two huge poplars that were in the front yard, this is what is left of them, the rest is on top of the neighbors car and in her garage. It's hard to see, but if you look hard you can see soffet hanging down on the right side of the porch and one of the porch spindles is gone along with the gutters and down spouts.
This is the kitchen pantry where Kandy, Kolin and Kaden rode out the storm. We huddled in the bottom with blankets. You can see the debris all over the floor. And if you look hard to the right you can see a sagging window treatment and window.
If you've seen our house before you remember the two huge poplars that were in the front yard, this is what is left of them, the rest is on top of the neighbors car and in her garage. It's hard to see, but if you look hard you can see soffet hanging down on the right side of the porch and one of the porch spindles is gone along with the gutters and down spouts.
This is the kitchen pantry where Kandy, Kolin and Kaden rode out the storm. We huddled in the bottom with blankets. You can see the debris all over the floor. And if you look hard to the right you can see a sagging window treatment and window.
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