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Pinellas, Hillsborough, Polk County Tornado

JLM
JLM
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Regarding the tornado in the Tampa area yesterday, the National Weather Service rated it an EF2 in Pinellas County, and an EF1 into Hillsborough and Polk Counties. Hope everything is okay! @kinzyjr is everything alright there?

https://twitter.com/NWSTampaBay/status/1339650213305176064

Palms - 1 Bismarckia nobilis, 2 Butia odorata, 1 BxJ, 4 BxS, 1 Chamaerops humilis, 1 Chamaedorea cataractarum, 1 Chamaedorea elegans, 1 Chamaedorea microspadix, 1 Chamaedorea radicalis, 1 Hyophorbe verschaffeltii, 1 Livistona chinensis, 1 Livistona nitida, 1 Phoenix canariensis, 2 Phoenix roebelenii, 1 Phoenix sylvestris, 1 Ravenea rivularis, 1 Rhapis excelsa, 1 Sabal bermudana, 4 Sabal palmetto, 1 Sabal minor, 2 Syagrus romanzoffiana, 3 Trachycarpus fortunei, 4 Washingtonia robusta
Total: 37

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    14 hours ago, JLM said:

    Regarding the tornado in the Tampa area yesterday, the National Weather Service rated it an EF2 in Pinellas County, and an EF1 into Hillsborough and Polk Counties. Hope everything is okay! @kinzyjr is everything alright there?

    https://twitter.com/NWSTampaBay/status/1339650213305176064

    Here, things got a bit blustery.  On the north side of town, a much different story:

    https://www.theledger.com/picture-gallery/news/disaster/2020/12/17/photos-day-after-tornado-cleaning-up-north-lakeland/3944379001/

    Lakeland, FL: USDA Zone 2023: 10a  2012: 9b  1990: 9a | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962)

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    1 hour ago, kinzyjr said:

    Here, things got a bit blustery.  On the north side of town, a much different story:

    https://www.theledger.com/picture-gallery/news/disaster/2020/12/17/photos-day-after-tornado-cleaning-up-north-lakeland/3944379001/

    I'm glad you lucked out. It looks like cinder block homes were destroyed....that must have been very powerful! You don't usually even see that in hurricanes.

    15 minutes ago, chinandega81 said:

    I'm glad you lucked out. It looks like cinder block homes were destroyed....that must have been very powerful! You don't usually even see that in hurricanes.

    Thanks, that would be the last thing I'd want to deal with at this point.  North Lakeland has had several instances of tornadoes damaging property over the last year or two.  Kathleen HS had damage from the last set of tornadoes in late 2019: https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-polk/reported-tornado-damages-kathleen-middle-school-leading-to-school-cancellations

    Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt or killed. 

    This far inland, some of the worst hurricane damage appeared to be from tornadoes during Charley.  I remember seeing a lot of blue tarps over roofs in Lake Wales, and then not far away, a block home completely reduced to rubble.  It seems there were a lot of tornadoes during that hurricane and that would account for that level of damage.

    Lakeland, FL: USDA Zone 2023: 10a  2012: 9b  1990: 9a | Record Low: 20F/-6.67C (Jan. 1985, Dec.1962)

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