EP75
05-05-2006, 04:46 PM
My friend Lakeisha posted this over at another forum and it's got me thinking. What if? Here's what she had to say and it makes ya think what if this did happen to Graceland.
It was mentioned the other day that Memphis has dodged a lot of potential deadly storms over the years. Mainly tornadoes and that we are due for a massive tornado to hit and when they said where the most likely area would be struck me hard....WHITEHAVEN where I used to live and where Graceland is located.
We here in the Memphis area are in what is known as "potential tornado alley", but are always spared of the destruction that tornadoes bring. We sometimes have hard hitting thunderstorms with strong winds that cause structural damage, but the tornadoes always go southeast of Memphis towards North Mississippi and miss us fortunately.
I am sayin all this because I was watchin a soap today, OLTL and they had a tornado to hit the church while a wedding was goin on. Yeah, they knew there was a tornado warning out but you know....it's tv, LOL.
Anyway, say Memphis' day has come and a F4 or 5 tornado touches down in southwest Memphis and goes east and sadly destroys Graceland. How would the world treat this, with Graceland no longer existing? Everything that was Elvis would be destroyed. Where would all the die hard fans go durin Elvis Week? There wouldn't be any home to see or anything left. So how would they react?
PS. Please don't think I am suggesting or hoping for one to hit. I would cry like hell if that ever happened because of the popularity of that home and what it stands for, which is rags to riches and the American dream. I was just wonderin about this if it ever happened. And it is a very possibility that we need to think about.
Any comments?
It was mentioned the other day that Memphis has dodged a lot of potential deadly storms over the years. Mainly tornadoes and that we are due for a massive tornado to hit and when they said where the most likely area would be struck me hard....WHITEHAVEN where I used to live and where Graceland is located.
We here in the Memphis area are in what is known as "potential tornado alley", but are always spared of the destruction that tornadoes bring. We sometimes have hard hitting thunderstorms with strong winds that cause structural damage, but the tornadoes always go southeast of Memphis towards North Mississippi and miss us fortunately.
I am sayin all this because I was watchin a soap today, OLTL and they had a tornado to hit the church while a wedding was goin on. Yeah, they knew there was a tornado warning out but you know....it's tv, LOL.
Anyway, say Memphis' day has come and a F4 or 5 tornado touches down in southwest Memphis and goes east and sadly destroys Graceland. How would the world treat this, with Graceland no longer existing? Everything that was Elvis would be destroyed. Where would all the die hard fans go durin Elvis Week? There wouldn't be any home to see or anything left. So how would they react?
PS. Please don't think I am suggesting or hoping for one to hit. I would cry like hell if that ever happened because of the popularity of that home and what it stands for, which is rags to riches and the American dream. I was just wonderin about this if it ever happened. And it is a very possibility that we need to think about.
Any comments?