The center field batting eye has been blown down, sections of the outfield fence are gone, and the scoreboard has collapsed onto the outfield.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4-9F8jXsAAXNVc.jpg
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The center field batting eye has been blown down, sections of the outfield fence are gone, and the scoreboard has collapsed onto the outfield.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4-9F8jXsAAXNVc.jpg
I’ve been watching on the radar. I’ve been looking at pictures on Facebook. Some major damage. I hope everyone is safe.
Classes are cancelled today. Damage assessment still underway on campus.
Apparent major damage around Mitchell with cars blown around in the adjacent parking areas.
Seeing pictures of trees uprooted around GTM.
It’s pretty bad.
Major damage to several businesses along I-20.
Softball stadium has damage also with debris blown into the press box.
Last edited by FriscoDawg; 04-25-2019 at 04:58 AM.
So I’m in Phoenix for the week. This just happened this morning in Ruston?
Wow, two confirmed fatalities. My son and his fiancé live just east of Hillcrest Elementary off of 167N. I have not been able to contact them yet.
Prayers for everyone there. We live further north off of HWY 33. Don’t know if there was any damage out that way yet.
Who is your son? Have you reached him? I have a friend who lives on Belcara behind Hillcrest. He may know him.Originally Posted by glm47
The damage I have seen close to the interstate is consistent with EF2 to MAYBE EF3 damage. One of the gas stations has no roof and partial wall failure. One of the apt./hotels lost a roof. I suspect we will see the final rating come in that ballpark unless there is some damage that hasn't been shown.
Winds hit 107 mph, that's an F1 tornado and winds equaled to a Cat 2 hurricane.
Amazing there weren't more injuries, hotel at 167 and I-20 had roof ripped off. From the drone video it looks like it was a low-hanging funnel cloud, i.e. a tornado not actually on the ground, at least in that portion of Ruston shown in this video clip. Often tornadoes will "skip," will be on the ground then lift, back on the ground, lift...As the video shows trees severed about halfway up it appears the tornado was not on the ground there.
A large portion of the precast concrete roof over the stands collapsed as well.
Took screen capture of the drone footage from WXChasing [Facebook]
https://www.facebook.com/wxchasing/v...3Mjk2MTE3NDU4/
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