EF-2 Tornado Rips Through Olive Branch

hotchick19 wrote:

when was it that the tornado hit again?

hotchick19 wrote:

thats what i thought but i was not sure my fience' and his sister were in their house durin the tornando and they said it was really bad exactly how bad was it?

DaCatzMew wrote:

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For the areas it hit, it did a great amount of damage. I believe it was at least a million dollars to a total of 6 schools. Chickasaw Elementary was hit the worse. I know of many peoples house that had trees just laid right in the middle of them. Byhalia and Olive Branch were hit the worse I believe. Colonial Hills on the West side of Desoto County was hit pretty bad as well. Old town Byhalia was torn up...old buildings just reduced to nearly nothing. The strange thing is that where the tornado hit was just a straight shot of damage. It did not extend out. For instance, the tornado in OB started at the weigh station on New 78, jumped over and hit Old Style BBQ on 305 jumped to the other side of the street and hit the Mobil gas stations utility poles and went down Sandidge by the high school, but then went down Blocker and took out lots of trees there. The damage was just so contained (for lack of a better word). Also, it knocked out power for some for nearly a week. Was a lot of tree damage. It was a miracle and a blessing no one to my knowledge was killed. I did hear of one person that was in ICU. Anyways, I will quit rambling now.