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Posted: Monday, April 13, 2009 2:45 pm

The city of Murfreesboro asks all residents to avoid all areas impacted by the Good Friday Tornado.

The city is currently conducting recovery and clean-up operations and through traffic is hampering the effort, especially those who are attempting to look at the destruction.

“We have large utility trucks with debris on the roads,” explained Ram Balachandran, adding it would be a great help for cleanup and make everyone’s jobs easier if rubber-neckers steered clear of the areas most heavily affected.

Please avoid the intersection of Thompson Lane and Broad Street, Thompson Lane to Haynes Drive and Haynes Drive from Thompson to Memorial Boulevard all week if possible.

These roads are open to residents, but local police and state troopers have set up checkpoints.

Tagged under Tornado, Traffic

Member Opinions:

By: devolver on 4/13/09
see my post in this article.. http://murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=16427

By: Macgyver on 4/13/09
Yes stay away, look at the net for pictures. I live off of Tomahawk and this traffic blockade is necessary but driving me insane. Because of the gawkers it took me 2 hours to get back home from a simple errand Saturday. Please stay away, if you’ve seen any damage you’ve seen it all. This is people’s private life ripped open and torn apart, not a department store window for browsing.

P.S. If I may have offended you, then you’ve probably driven through, not helped a bit, all for your own satisfaction. That’s sad.

By: barrettbear on 4/14/09
Not to mention, the unnecessary traffic hampers the cleanup efforts of these areas.

By: emw247 on 4/15/09
Well said Macgyver! Here we are trying our best to clean up and you look up and cars are backed up with people hanging out of their windows to take pictures. UGHHHH! Go away or put down your camera and help!!!! We have wished many a flat tire over the past weekend.