It was a crazy evening last night as a tornado touched down here in Hampton, Virginia. The photo above is a shot taken from Chesapeake Avenue (our street) of the water spout/tornado headed across Hampton Roads harbor towards Hampton. The twister came ashore further to the east on Chesapeake Avenue in the Merrimac Shores neighborhood and proceeded from there through the area of the Hampton Yacht Club where it did extensive damage and then through a residential area called Little England (named after a colonial era estate) which has some of the most beautiful old homes in the city and then into downtown wreaking havoc on the pirate themed weekend festival that had kicked off yesterday afternoon.
Our home and the boyfriend's salon in downtown Hampton came through unscathed (a friend drove by the salon to check it out and said other than some debris in the parking lot it was OK) but some friends (who texted us to say they were safe) who live in the Little England area probably were not so lucky. The owner of the women's apparel and home furnishings store called "Cricket" that leases the first floor of the salon building reported that her home on Park Place in Little England had lots of large tree limbs down and that a boat of unknown origin was sitting in her front yard. She said a neighbors Mercedes had a tree on it. Reports are that several homes have been condemned due to damage. The photo below shows the storm approaching downtown with the Virginia Air and Space Museum in the center of the photo in front of the approaching funnel cloud. Behind that are the Hampton Yacht Club where a number of friends keep their boats and the Little England neighborhood.
The first video below shows some of the damage at the Yacht Club. The second is filmed in front of our friend's home in Little England. I will post more as additional information is available.
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GOOD GRIEF !! glad you and Martha are okay .. I take it this was an unusal event for your area.
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