[jcmanson]

Some of you may know that my wife works at Target and her store she works at got hit by a tornado today. A huge praise that she left at 3:15 and the tornado struck arund 3:30. Multiple injuries and severe damage to the building and area. I also used to work at this store for 4 years and know many people who still work there. It's still too early to know much concretely.

Pray for everyone's safety.

[Hold My Own]

Will do...


Where were they at?

[bigsmooth]

i saw this on the news and thought about our richmond area flamefans. this was in colonial heights. i believe about four years ago another tornado hit a colonial heights wal-mart. prayers go out to everyone in that are and down in suffolk where it appeared the damage was even worse.

[jcmanson]

Thanks for the prayers guys. This was in C.H. The store closed around 3:30 yesterday afternoon, but reopened this morning on normal schedule. Sounds as though there were 4-5 severely injured and everyone else just minor. The security guards had to stay in the store overnight because the doors buckled in so badly that they couldn't be shut or locked. There were people there all night doing repair work. Directly behind the Target is a Chevy dealership, and my wife said this morning that they lost probably half of their cars.

It does look like the damage in the Suffolk area was much more severe. Thankfully, I haven't heard of a single death to this point.

[jcmanson]

i believe about four years ago another tornado hit a colonial heights wal-mart.

Yep, that wal-mart is actually right next door to this Target! It was actually in 1993 though Smooth

[bigsmooth]

was it that long ago??? WOW!!

[jcmanson]

Yeah I couldn't believe it when I heard it last night.