Tornado nearing downtown Nashville

Holy crap.

Earlier, 86 people were injured in Jackson, and there were reportedly fatalities; don't know how many yet. Two Union University dorms were almost completely destroyed. This is getting totally overshadowed by the election (which it also affected), but it is a HUGE deal.

UPDATE: More here from the Memphis paper.

What an absolutely nutty night if you're working for a newspaper in Tennessee, particularly West or Middle Tennessee.

Comments

[B. Minich]

Seems appropriate - weather nerd Brendan Loy moves to Tennessee, Tennessee experiences a tornado on the same night that the Vols play the Gators and the primary happens. Now if USC could be playing in Tennessee somehow, this would be a Brendan Loy news trifecta! (Or quad-fecta?!?)

[Fresh Girl]

Union University is my alma mater, and this makes me positively heartsick. It's the second or third time that university has been hit by a tornado in the last few years, but this has been the worst by far.

[Leanna Loomer]

Knoxville isn't in Tornado Alley, is it? The path over Memphis and Nashville weren't that surprising to me. (I grew up in Tornado Alley.)