Mon Jan 17, 2022, 11:31 AM

Florida tornadoes destroy dozens of homes, leave 7,000 customers without power

Source: CNN

By Claudia Dominguez, Joe Sutton and Gene Norman,

(CNN)Two tornadoes struck southwest Florida Sunday morning, destroying at least 28 homes and damaging others in Lee County, while leaving about 7,000 houses there without power, officials said.

The tornadoes were generated by the same storm system that brought freezing rain and snow to other parts of the East Coast, where more than 50 million people Monday morning were under winter weather alerts.

As of early Monday morning, the storm system had knocked out power to more than 180,000 customers in its path, according to PowerOutage.us.

In a Sunday news conference, Cecil Pendergrass, co-chairman of the Lee County board of commissioners, said at least 62 homes were currently "unlivable."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/us/florida-tornadoes-damages/index.html

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Florida tornadoes destroy dozens of homes, leave 7,000 customers without power (Original post)	Omaha Steve	Jan 2022	OP
Sadly	snowybirdie	Jan 2022	#1
Like seniors	Traildogbob	Jan 2022	#3
Paxton is one of most evil persons I have ever read about.	riversedge	Jan 2022	#11
deathsantos and traitortrump are the leaders there	samsingh	Jan 2022	#2
We live an hour north of there and got no warnings via net or tv.	ancianita	Jan 2022	#5
Would	DownriverDem	Jan 2022	#4
If you believe the bible thumping taking heads I have to say GOD is not happy with RED state Florida	usaf-vet	Jan 2022	#6
Nice place to visit , I wouldn't want to	YoshidaYui	Jan 2022	#8
rare, right?	llashram	Jan 2022	#7
Winter tornadoes are common and Florida has always been in the	cinematicdiversions	Jan 2022	#9
hmmmph, okay	llashram	Jan 2022	#10

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 11:50 AM

snowybirdie (3,812 posts)

1. Sadly

Most people who lost homes are seniors. So many are now homeless.

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Response to snowybirdie (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 12:11 PM

Traildogbob (4,865 posts)

3. Like seniors

Lost to Covid. As Paxton in Texas says, “ a needed sacrifice for the economy”. Same for lose of life to climate change devastation. All those deaths are patriotic sacrifices for the economy is how the paid for climate deniers feel about them. Fires, tornadoes, super storms, summer and winter, no worries. The Economy thanks all those patriotic sacrificials. But, Manchin’s coal billionaires are doing just fine, and in control of BBB and climate policies.
Thoughts and prayers are their answer, they are free. We should tax thoughts and prayers for guns and climate disasters.

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Response to Traildogbob (Reply #3)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 10:59 PM

riversedge (63,611 posts)

11. Paxton is one of most evil persons I have ever read about.

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Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 12:02 PM

samsingh (16,795 posts)

2. deathsantos and traitortrump are the leaders there

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Response to samsingh (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 01:55 PM

ancianita (26,446 posts)

5. We live an hour north of there and got no warnings via net or tv.

So much for leadership.

Yesterday DeSantis took to Twitter to offer his prayers for those impacted by the storms. He says the Florida Division of Emergency Management response teams will be available to help.

Link to tweet

18 hours ago he posted a video with a token Black mom standing up in the audience:
"Moms across our state are standing up for a principle that is the policy of the state of Florida: Our tax dollars should not be used to teach our kids to hate our country or to hate each other."

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Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Mon Jan 17, 2022, 12:55 PM

DownriverDem (5,395 posts)