This occured yesterday while I was at work. Evidently the funnel cloud passed right over my apartment complex after wiping out the church. It didn't touch down as it passed but it dropped back down into Gallatin and did quite a bit of damage. It's pretty hard to move around right now so this is all I've had time to shoot at the moment.
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Metro Baptist Church
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Side view
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Insulation in power lines across the street
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More insulation. I found a piece of this five miles away in some woods where the tornado went through. Check out the styrofoam wedged in between the pipe and telephone pole.
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Insulation everywhere. This is East of the Impact zone...
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Cleanup begins
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Police wouldn’t let anyone closer than this in the Mansker area…
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Chain link fence across the street… gone. The posts remained.
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Front view
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Inpact side
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Debris impacts
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Most of the trees were snapped in two or uprooted. This one decided not to give in...
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A view from the West…
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Parishioners stopping by…
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Parishioners surrounded by vultures. I should have popped both of them with my monopod. They were shooting a story and periodically laughing up a storm. Not very respectful
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Inside the Sanctuary
At this point I decided I was done. I had noticed a professional photog had shown up and walked right into the building. I figured I would give it a shot and here’s what I found…
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Destroyed choir and pulpit…
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Just unbelievable…
This shot pretty well sums it up for me. After growing up in Oklahoma and suffering the same thing this shot burns it into my mind the most…
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Amazingly there were no fatalities at the chuch. There was a pre-school attached to the front of the building that had 35 small children inside at the moment of impact. All of them including the adults came out ok!
