SW Missouri storms...

[macwilkin]

I just heard from my friend; one of the twisters passed within 150 yards to the south of his house along his Southern property line, and took out a number of his neighbours' barns before heading accross the creek, up the ridge and into the next county. He did say that he now has firewood for over 20 years, since a number of his cedar trees were taken out by the storm! :mrgreen:

Thanks to everyone for their concern; I still remember the "big one" that hit Springfield proper in 1983 (passed within 3 blocks of my house); that one gave me healthy respect for the power of these storms.

T.

[NewKilt]

We had a tornado touch down about 10 miles south of town. Sirens were going off all night. From what I've heard so far there have been two people killed in Missouri as a result of the storms. We have several trees in our backyard, and there are limbs down all over it. The biggest storm that hit Jefferson City was carrying 3.5 inch hail. We are just outside of the city limits on the southwest side, and while we had high winds, lightning, and heavy rain, the hail that hit us was about 1 inch. Fortunately, none of the trees came down on our house. I noticed that our neighbor across the street had the shutters on their windows torn off by the wind. Our local TV station stayed on the air reporting all the storms all over the state, and warned people to take cover as the storms approached their area. A rather scary night to say the least.

It was 80 F here yesterday, but today it is 47 F with the wind blowing 26 mph.

Darrell

[GMan]

When I hear things like this, it always gets me to really respect the forces of nature. My heart goes out to everyone.

[UmAnOnion]

When I hear things like this, it always gets me to really respect the forces of nature. My heart goes out to everyone.

I have lived thru my fair share of hurricanes so have learned to respect mother nature. She can be one mean old (rhymes with witch) when she wants to be so is to be attended to in no uncertain terms.
Nothing beats the sight of the old fashioned 12' diameter satallite dishes flying across the sky like frisbees.... makes you very thankful for houses made of cement block construction & old school workmanship.

[bubba]

Some years ago I was a volunteer spotter for the National Weather Service. Yeah, one of those crazies that goes out when everyone else is running for shelter. I've had the wipers ripped off my truck and nearly been blown off the road. Weather warnings have to be taken seriously because if you don't you can be seriously injured or killed.

[Colin]

Click your Ghille Brouges together and repeat " there is nothing like traditional, there is nothing like traditional"! The kilt gods will protect you

[davedove]

Glad to hear you're okay Todd. I know what you mean by pucker factor. A couple of years ago, the remnants of a hurricane passed through the area here and spawned over 50 tornados one night. A couple of them skimmed past Frederick and I was watching their path on TV, because if one of them had taken a slightly different path, it would have gone right over me.

[macwilkin]

Glad to hear you're okay Todd. I know what you mean by pucker factor. A couple of years ago, the remnants of a hurricane passed through the area here and spawned over 50 tornados one night. A couple of them skimmed past Frederick and I was watching their path on TV, because if one of them had taken a slightly different path, it would have gone right over me.

Last night was nothing compared to my wife's experience of going through Hurricane Andrew in Ft. Lauderdale back in 1992, though, so your point about hurricanes is well-taken.

For those interested, here is the web site of our local "fishwrap":

http://news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

T.

[auld argonian]

I seriously symapathize with you all in the path of this kind of weather. I've been in stuff that's nowhere near that bad and it has scared the living bejeezis out of me.

This is when I'm grateful that Chicago is in just the right place that the weather tends to moderate by the time it gets here. The little Oregon Scientific weather radio went off last night at about two a.m. and gave the incredibly precise, area specific information that it's supposed to give. They ran off the time that the weather was going to hit suburb by suburb until it got to my section of the city and lo and behold it happened exactly in the time frame that they quoted. If you don't have one of these radios that let's you program in your exact area, you should definitely look into one...

...the weather has just gone crazy lately...

Best

AA

[bubba]

...the weather has just gone crazy lately...

Best

AA

Yeah, global weather patterns are all screwed up lately and it's likely to get worse before it gets better. I agree a weather alert radio is a good investment. I wouldn't be without one.