In my life time living in the Tidewater Area of Virginia which consists of Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Newport News and Hampton Virginia I don't ever remember hearing about tornado's leveling homes! Yes...we have our share of Hurricanes and Nor Easters but today I stumbled onto the site at Hill Point Farms in Suffolk where just a few days back we had a devastating tornado run over this pretty neighborhood of relatively new homes.
Having lived on the water most of my life I have seen the affects of Hurricanes in the Atlantic...surfed Hurricane swells in Virginia Beach and Cape Hatteras NC, seen beach roads washed out by the ocean, new inlets made on the outer banks by storms but never have I seen such 
isolated and condensed power that created such random destruction as I did in Suffolk today. Those around the country that live in areas where tornados are common probably are yawning at my pictures but I was simply stunned by what I saw. What I found amazing was that while several homes were completely destroyed in some cases the home right next door to a badly damaged home would be barely harmed!
In our area the water table is very high so in most locations we do not have basements or the ability to build a storm shelters so the home owners in these photos were very exposed to this danger. They must have been terrified.
I think I like the Hurricanes better! At least the surfers can have more fun with the big waves!
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