The Surveys Are In
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (73610)
United States
April 9, 2025 8:01pm CST
Because of the terrible weather — two rounds of tornado warnings, followed by four days of near-record rainfall — the National Weather Service office has just completed the storm surveys for the tornado events. They say that we had eleven of them: five on March 30, and six on April 2.
The eleventh one was announced earlier this afternoon. It hit “across the river,” in New Albany, Indiana. About half a mile from my brother’s house.
My brother said he could feel the house shaking from his safe spot in the basement when it hit. The power poles along the road I take to get to his house were snapped. The National Weather Service rated it an EF1.
I’m so thankful he didn’t have any damage.
I’m also thankful the rivers are receding. The photo is one of our big drainage ditches/creeks, Beargrass Creek. You can see it’s back in its banks. I did temp work in the office building next to this creek, and it had made it up the bank to the parking lot during a rain event. I took this from the Home Depot yesterday, looking toward the office building.
I’m thankful we’re having a calm spell in our weather, and I hope it stays this way!
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@2ndchances24 (10284)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
10 Apr
That's a nice looking view of a water pond / ditch with the geese
That would be my fishing spot right there for sure.
"New Albany, Indiana" where is that ? I'm B-tween Terre Haute &
Indianapolis, where you may see "Cloverdale"
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
New Albany is a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. It’s right across the Ohio River from Louisville, along Interstate 64.
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@2ndchances24 (10284)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
10 Apr
@FourWalls Oh so it's south of of me, glad to know your
brother is o.k & didn't get hit or any damage.
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
I totally understand the sentiment, and totally agree.
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@kareng (72460)
• United States
10 Apr
We have already surpassed the normal annual number of tornadoes this year. I'm glad your brother's house wasn't hit and the water is going down!
Keeping my fingers crossed that we don't have weekend #6 here. Jackson, MS is getting more storms late tomorrow afternoon, but my area should be in the clear. (At least that is what the weather peeps are telling us today.)
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@kareng (72460)
• United States
10 Apr
@FourWalls I know! Bad weather again this evening for north Mississippi. I need to check weekend weather. I've been slacking!
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
@kareng — they have us already circled for day 5 (which is Monday) in level 2. 
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
I couldn’t believe the number of tornado warnings they showed nationwide last week. It was unreal.
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@snowy22315 (187793)
• United States
10 Apr
It just sounds horrible! Glad the people you know were safe though
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
Thank you. I went by Southeast Christian Church yesterday and it looked like they had minor roof damage on a couple of buildings. I’ll take no fatalities or injuries from an EF3 any day.
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@DaddyEvil (145797)
• United States
10 Apr
I'm glad your brother didn't lose his house and the tornadoes missed all of us on myLot. (It's harder to worry about people I don't know, so I stick to the ones I do or have met here.)
Our ditches/drainage culverts were running full this last week but the water level is below the top of the banks now. 
(The city kept cleaning the ditches here and clearing debris. I heard tractors and graders working through the storms at times.)
Let's hope everything continues this way now.
(The city kept cleaning the ditches here and clearing debris. I heard tractors and graders working through the storms at times.)
Let's hope everything continues this way now.1 person likes this
@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
@DaddyEvil — I know. You remember how I’d go to concerts out the wazoo back in the 2010s? I haven’t been to a show since 2018. Covid just helped solidify the fact that my concert going days are over.
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
I understand. I worry about the myLotters in the paths of these things. When I heard about the nightclub roof collapse my first thought was, “Do we have any myLotters there?”
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@DaddyEvil (145797)
• United States
10 Apr
@FourWalls Most myLotters don't go to night clubs anymore... Most of us are getting slightly older so we don't go out as much as we did when we were younger.
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@Deepizzaguy (108638)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Apr
I am very thankful that the weather was nice in my neighborhood other than some brief showers this week.
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
We’re having strong storms moving in right now, but nothing like last week.
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@GardenGerty (163068)
• United States
10 Apr
I am glad you are safe. It is a nice view, with it back in its banks.
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
I drove by the current VA hospital exit today. I saw the flooding, but I don’t believe it. That exit is at least a quarter of a mile from the bank of the river. And it’s under water . 
@BarBaraPrz (49279)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Apr
Are the black & white spots ducks? And were they the ones who plugged in those teeny tiny pine tree seedlings on the bank?
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@BarBaraPrz (49279)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
10 Apr
@FourWalls Branta canadensis? They're everywhere.
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
Always great to see “the calm after the storm,” especially when you’re discussing severe weather.
@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
It’s part of the park system in other parts of town…goes through Cherokee Park.
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@LadyDuck (472821)
• Switzerland
10 Apr
@FourWalls That is a good system and it looks pretty.
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@wolfgirl569 (114512)
• Marion, Ohio
10 Apr
That is a lot of them. Glad your brother didn't have any damage
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
It’s been a long time since we had that many. Even with the Henryville tornado in 2012 we didn’t have a lot….just one. REALLY bad one.
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@RasmaSandra (83909)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Apr
The calm before the storm I hope it is all over now,
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@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
11 Apr
We’re getting more right now. You know how hurricane season is? That’s how severe weather season can be here. 
Thankfully, these are hit then leave, they won’t stick around for a week like the flooding rain did.
Thankfully, these are hit then leave, they won’t stick around for a week like the flooding rain did.1 person likes this
@FourWalls (73610)
• United States
10 Apr
It depends on what part of the country you’re in. Our season usually winds down in mid-May, with the “second season” in the fall. In Alabama, they have two seasons, tornado (November-May) and hurricane (June-November). Usually, the threat is confined to the time of year where you have two diverse, converging air masses (cold and warm & humid) fighting it out along a front. The weather is more stable in the summer (hot and humid) and winter (cold and miserable), so those are the least likely times for tornadoes here. But we have had them in December (2021). I remember the New Year’s football bowl games being interrupted for tornado warnings one year.
Usually, the threat is confined to the time of year where you have two diverse, converging air masses (cold and warm & humid) fighting it out along a front. The weather is more stable in the summer (hot and humid) and winter (cold and miserable), so those are the least likely times for tornadoes here. But we have had them in December (2021). I remember the New Year’s football bowl games being interrupted for tornado warnings one year.1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (186587)
• United States
10 Apr
I'm glad that you and your brother are safe and sound.
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