j21kickster
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Today- there were several tornados around here- some just a few miles away- we got real lucky- here is an article and pics about the storm http://www.cnn.com/2003/WEATHER/05/0...oes/index.html
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tangman99
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Man you guys get some huge tornados out there. I'm glad you are ok. We get the little thin funnel clouds here in Florida. I've actually stood outside and watched them from a couple of miles away on two different occassions. I don't think I would do that with one of those you guys get.
cboyfan2020
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yeah I remember the F4 that came through here about 10 years ago and wiped almost half the city out
overanalyzer
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Originally posted by kgrimes
I'll take earthquakes any day. Though we did have a strong breeze (25mph) here a month or so ago..... <B>S C A R Y ! !</B>
Not so much - no early warning from earthquakes ....we had tornaodes go norht of our house and just south ... plus we too got some strong straight line winds - about 45 MPH ..... no damage and the power was only out for around 10 minutes .....
People north of KC weren't so lucky!
overanalyzer
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Originally posted by kgrimes
They, come, they rumble, they leave. That's our lot in life. It's not a lot, but it's our life!
HIlarous - Bug's life fan or do you have small children?? As I can almost recite the movie from memory!!
Hurricanes and torandoes are two different beasts!! they are saying something like 34 dead in this latest storm ... but only one in KC area - as of right now ... there are several people still missing
scotts
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When I was a kid I lived in Pittsburgh, California and Missouri. Now live in California. I remember being a kid in grade school in Missouri and having the tornado drills. Tornados scared the bejeesus out of me. The other kids were not that scared of them. However they were extremely frightened of earthquakes. Go figure.
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cboyfan2020
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with tornadoes you can go to a basement and be relatively safe. with an earthqauke if you go to the basement you get buried. Something about the ground I am walking on shaking violently makes me very nervous. I mean I do live near a big fault line......luckily it hasnt decided to shift yet. Well i guess it shifts all the time just not enough for us to notice. J21 and overanylizer.....do you guys live in johnson or wyandotte counties? They were just talking about a guy burying his dogs on fox news
overanalyzer
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Southern Johnson County just north of the Johnson county/Miami County line .....
Scotts .... my youngest thinks its fun to hang out in our shelter area in the basement and the older one had to spend an extra hour at school last week hanging out in the storm shelter .... it is just a fact of life .... not a very pleasent one though
Scotts .... my youngest thinks its fun to hang out in our shelter area in the basement and the older one had to spend an extra hour at school last week hanging out in the storm shelter .... it is just a fact of life .... not a very pleasent one though
phoenixrising
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The tornados yesterday were terrible. How freightening that must have been for the folks living there...especially the ones who could see it coming and had no way to escape to safety. Hopefully many were saved by underground storm shelters. I for one would make a storm shelter my first priority if I lived in heavily tornado prone areas. My heart goes out to those who's lives were forever changed yesterday. FWIW, the same storm is forecast to hit here later today. I think it has lost some of it's punch though. It seems every few summers we are hit by lightning and the basement floods (no electricity=no sump pump) and anything electric is blown out. Not sure if the lightning actually hits the house or just lands close by. We have 16 acres and the house is a nice target. My insurance company is probably a little weary of replacing our basement.....
I used to live for many years in Napa Valley in California. Earthquakes there were a common occurance. They were little ones though and didn't do much in the way of damage. A few times though, the quakes were much bigger and boy did that scare a few more years off my life! What a hopeless and powerless feeling that is.
Mother Nature is the strongest force on earth and my respect goes to her!
I used to live for many years in Napa Valley in California. Earthquakes there were a common occurance. They were little ones though and didn't do much in the way of damage. A few times though, the quakes were much bigger and boy did that scare a few more years off my life! What a hopeless and powerless feeling that is.
Mother Nature is the strongest force on earth and my respect goes to her!
wrassecal
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Unfortunately, we get to claim the biggest and the baddest. I'm not sure if they did but they were looking at classifying the May 3rd, 1999 tornado that cut an over a mile wide swath through much of Oklahoma including 3 miles north of our house (we lucked out) as an F6! That was a very long day as we were able to watch it on TV for a couple hours before it hit the city. Bad deal, I don't even want to think about the dead and injured that came out of that one. It was awful. I grew up around them and was never scared until that day. I feel really bad for the people in Kansas and Missouri today. Glad you guys didn't get hit.
That was a very long day as we were able to watch it on TV for a couple hours before it hit the city. Bad deal, I don't even want to think about the dead and injured that came out of that one. It was awful. I grew up around them and was never scared until that day. I feel really bad for the people in Kansas and Missouri today. Glad you guys didn't get hit.
cboyfan2020
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F6 I though they only went up to F5!!!! My uncle is a storm chaser and I have gone with him many times. I have seen some monsters in my time but only 1 F5. An F6 would be ungodly!!!
I though they only went up to F5!!!! My uncle is a storm chaser and I have gone with him many times. I have seen some monsters in my time but only 1 F5. An F6 would be ungodly!!!
phoenixrising
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I watched the video of that particular tornado. I think an F6 rating would not be an inappropriate classification. That was absolutely amazing footage. . Made me feel glad I'm in (relatively) safe Ohio. I hope you have a nice secure underground storm shelter there in the home of huge tornadoes...OKlahoma!
. Made me feel glad I'm in (relatively) safe Ohio. I hope you have a nice secure underground storm shelter there in the home of huge tornadoes...OKlahoma!
cboyfan2020
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Do you remember how big it was? The one that hit here about 10 years ago was like 1-2 miles wide.
wrassecal
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Originally posted by cboyfan2020
F6
I though they only went up to F5!!!! My uncle is a storm chaser and I have gone with him many times. I have seen some monsters in my time but only 1 F5. An F6 would be ungodly!!! They do only go up to F5. They did a great job of tracking it, since it was on the ground for hours and the National Severe Storms lab is here in Norman. They got readings higher than any before and above what they thought was possible when they made the F5 designation, so they were going to have to make a new designation of F6 based on the data. Lots of debate in the weather world about it.
PhoenixRising - A whole lot of it got on TV and also the Discovery Channel was riding with an ambulance group and they have run several specials on the damage, wounded etc. It's the right time of the year and these programs are showing up on Discovery Channel now so if you missed "THE BIG ONE" in Oklahoma, you'll be able to watch it this spring on Discovery Channel. The tornado itself was amazing, the destuction unimaginable though. It looked like the whole area had been bombed or something. You can still drive up I35 between Norman and OKC and look to the sides and tell the path of the thing. It also wiped out many other smaller communities.
overanalyzer
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Originally posted by PhoenixRising
I watched the video of that particular tornado. I think an F6 rating would not be an inappropriate classification. That was absolutely amazing footage.
. Made me feel glad I'm in (relatively) safe Ohio. Pheonix - saw more tornadoes in Cleveland when I was growing up then I have since moving to KS in '88 .... 4 in Cleveland area (not counting some awesome water spouts) and 2 in KS ....
just saying ....
overanalyzer
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Originally posted by Wrassecal
Overanalyzer - you made me think about when I was in the Bahamas on a boat and there was a water spout (if that's what they are called in that part of the world) It was awesome! A little scary but awesome!
Glad I could help you recall a happy event!!!
ahh the Bahamas - boy would I love to go!!
j21kickster
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On the coast you have hurricanes- up north you can have huge blizards- earthquakes on the west coast and potentially in cantral US- in the canter you have tornados- south you can have drought- seems to be danger anywhere
cboyfan2020
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Originally posted by j21kickster
On the coast you have hurricanes- up north you can have huge blizards- earthquakes on the west coast and potentially in cantral US- in the canter you have tornados- south you can have drought- seems to be danger anywhere
Forgot about wild fires..........dont ya just love mother nature