First Off, I am Okay.

[Teallaura]

The Wal-Mart where I work was struck by a tornado about forty five minutes ago. I am at the ER to be checked out. There were injuries, two people were sent by ambulance to the ER.

I was near the door and had to get behind a cooler. I have some minor injuries. My banana comb is DOA. The store has extensive damage. There was a gas leak and fire rescue had not yet been able to get into the damaged sections to check for more seriously injured people.

I don't know any more than that right now. One guy had some bad cuts. I don't know about the other person. I am concerned about something in my eye but I am not badly hurt. I don't know if any other parts of town were struck. I don't know about my house.

Anyway, it could have been worse. Please pray that it isn't any worse than I think it is. And for those who were hurt.

[Teallaura]

My eye has a lovely scratch that looks like a half moon, so I am told, but nothing was in it. Yay.

I am beginning to hurt from the pounding I took, I guess. I have a few Cuts and bruises but they are minor.

[Irate Canadian]

My eye has a lovely scratch that looks like a half moon, so I am told, but nothing was in it. Yay.

I am beginning to hurt from the pounding I took, I guess. I have a few Cuts and bruises but they are minor.

[Teallaura]

Thanks IC

They gave me a pain killer before I left. The house was fine. Well, as fine ss it gets. I am in bed too tired to sleep.

I will post pics tomorrow.

[One Bad Pig]

[Darth Ovious]

Hope you are OK and I hope everyone in your work is OK too.

[Cerebrum123]

[Teallaura]

Thanks, everyone

[Littlejoe]

Glad your ok...relatively speaking...I didn't even hear about a tornado last night. It must have happened late?

[JardinPrayer]

I worry, sweet friend. No car and now no job to go to? What needs can we perhaps help with?

[rogue06]

[Teallaura]

Thanks everyone.

I think it was 10:40 or 10:45, LJ.

Let me get back to you, JP. I am still too sleepy.

[LostSheep]

[rogue06]

Source: Suspected Tornado in Troy, Alabama, Tears Through Wal-Mart

A suspected tornado tore through a Wal-Mart and a neighboring sports outlet in Troy, Alabama, flipping trucks and tractor-trailers in the parking lot and injuring at least five people late Thursday.

"What seemed to be a tornado-like storm damaged the Wal-Mart in Troy structurally," Mayor Jason Reeves told NBC News. "It flipped multiple trucks and tractor trailers in the parking lot, and damaged a strip-mall structure near the Wal-Mart. There is also water damage in the area from damage to a water main."

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Two of those injured were inside the store when the storm struck while a third was in a truck that was overturned, he said. A total of three people were taken to a local hospital, Reeves added.

Walmart employee Sarah Brookins told the Troy Messenger that said the storm had caught everyone by surprise.

"We heard a loud noise," she said. "All of a sudden the wind was blowing in the store. We saw dust blowing through the door."

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Josh Johnson
@JoshWeather
Hibbett Sports in Troy had substantial damage
from a likely tornado just before 11pm..pic from @Doug_WSFA #alwx

The storm first hit in the the home and pharmacy departments of Wal-Mart and moved to the other end of the structure, Brookins added.

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Justin Abraham
@jjabraham
Hook echo on radar near Troy, AL RT @NBCNews: Suspected tornado tears through
Alabama Walmart http://nbcnews.to/1HuUhUV

At 10:32 p.m. (11:32 p.m. ET), the National Weather Service warned of possible flash flooding and "frequent cloud to ground lightning" accompanying the storm.

"Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways," the Weather Service instructed. "Seek a safe shelter inside a building or vehicle."



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The story also includes a 47 second video embedded in it which seems to mostly concentrate on the damage to Hibbett Sports

[Zymologist]

Glad to hear you're ok.