Severe weather hits Central Florida

[minniemouseuk]

Please click on the link below for a news report from Orlando Sentinel:-

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...22007,0,1660247.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

 

[Cochise]

Large retirement communtities and Tornados dont mix, here's hoping that the reports of fatalities are not true

 

[Gonz Of Lancashire]

We flew home last night to Manchester. We had to wait at the end of the runway for around half an hour as the pilot had been advised of bad weather to the north of Orlando. We took off to the south which was fine but once we turned north we had some pretty bad turbulence for the first hour of our flight. Didn't know about the tornado until this evening.

 

[mickg7dyd]

Just been watching coverage on Fox news and they say that a Tornado warning has been issued for Vero Beach.

Mick.

 

[Girlsontour]

Just seen the ITV news and it looks like its just missed Disney. However 14 people have died and many houses flattened.

 

[spencem]

We're out here now and didn't see anything until the text messages from worried friends in the UK.

We're staying in a villa just off J58 of the I4 at Champion's Gate, heard the rain in the early hours but nothing worse thankfully. We went to Dsney today and everything is fine there, I think the damage was south of here.

Just seen the local Channel 9 Bay News and was sad to see many people have had a very bad day.

 

[JazzySteph]

I live about 10 minutes from Disney and all the really bad weather was north of the Orlando area. The only thing we had here was a some really heavy rain. There was a some severe damage in those areas north of us, no one knew how bad it was until it was morning! The weather looks good for the next few days though so if any of you are coming out it looks like we'll have some nice weather.

 

[ariel75]

We were there when the weather channel gave out a tornado watch alert but we didn't notice anything was wrong till i put the news on this morning and saw the damage that was made.

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

it struck about 50 miles Northwest of Orlando it seems
very sad

 

[cleo]

This has been a really serious weather event for central Florida, the worst in the area since 1998. Apparently every few years we get some severe upper-atmosphere weather in February that can cause tornadoes, and this had an extensive effect in the early hours of Friday morning. The orlando/Orange County area was not impacted at all (apart from the thunderstorms and heavy rain for a few hours, and some unsettled weather this weekend), but the death toll has reached 20 in the counties just to the north (Lake, Seminole, Volusia and Sumter) and there has been widespread damage. Tornadoes do not normally have such a wide impact as this, they are normally devastating but small-scale incidents, but this was a really big area they hit, and our thoughts and prayers should be with the many, many families affected by this.