January Tornadoes!!

One of the tornadoes went about 3 miles south of Conway and one of the fatalities was there. Since Freddie and Ricky are both firefighters and my Freddie is the manager of the ambulance service, we were out until 4:30 in the morning and then back up early to go do damage surveys. We were out weather spotting when the first tornado came through. I have never been through hail like that. It was like it was raining golf balls and baseballs! Both of our vehicles sustained a lot of hail damage. I just knew that the windows were going to break out. Then we headed out to the damaged area to start helping. The devastation was just unreal. It was in a rather rural and wooded area on dirt roads. We would just be driving along and suddenly the road was blocked by trees or hay bales or power lines or debris from homes. Some times the emergency workers would have to backtrack and try to find another way in. We actually had to load a woman and her son in our truck and take them to the ambulance because of the debris in the road. They were in a hallway in their house when the tornado hit. Their home was completely destroyed and they were thrown into the field with the pieces of their home. Thankfully neither of them were seriously hurt, but she did have to stay in the hospital overnight with a cut on her head and three broken ribs. Since the storms kept coming one after another, we were trying to keep up with the weather forecasts in order to keep the emergency workers safe. We saw at least three other tornadoes during the night.
I have a gallery of photos that I took yesterday. Most of them were taken from the road and are not technically great, so excuse the blur. Believe me, the devastation is much worse than it looks in my pictures.
Tornado Photo Gallery