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The storms have arrived here in Kentucky. The wind is howling! Driving home from the trainer tour was an adventure. I'm off to bed to listen to the storms. The radar screen does not look too bad. A beautiful day is forecast for tomorrow.
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01-08-2008, 06:23 PM #16
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It all seems so....biblical. This, from the NWS page for Whydaho, not too far from where Shiraz and FlyBye live:
IF YOU LIVE IN A HIGH RISK AREA, UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT YOU LIVE IN
AN AVALANCHE-ENGINEERED HOME...WE ARE RECOMMENDING YOU DO NOT SPEND TONIGHT IN YOUR HOME.
Hmmmmm.
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01-08-2008, 06:38 PM #17
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01-08-2008, 06:44 PM #18
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My little town is right on the edge of Oklahoma, tornado mecca. For some reason, the worst storms seem to always dissipate right as they get to us, on the edge of the Ozarks. We are less than 2 miles as the crow flies from the state line, and time and again we watch the tornado warnings expire or the storm curves north just as it reaches us.
Last night was a scary one, though. The sirens were going off and we had steady tornado warnings. We huddled in the hallway with the dogs (I can see the leashes still lying there) a couple of times. Yet, the storms just broke up. We have 7 pecan trees and many others, and none of them so much as dropped a twig. We did get 8 inches of rain, though!
Karen
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01-09-2008, 05:26 AM #19
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It's morning, did y'all make it through the night OK?
Beth
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01-09-2008, 06:25 AM #20
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It's a beautiful morning here. Cool, sunny and little wind.
Southern gals, are you all ok?
I'm interested in getting one of these some day:
www.stormxshelters.com
This shelter is designed to withstand an F5 tornado. I'll bet it would withstand an earthquake as well since we are sitting on one of the biggest faults in the US.
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01-09-2008, 06:59 AM #21
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Glad to hear you're OK, sundial--that's so scary! Our safe room is our bathroom, too. Most houses around here don't even have cellars/basements--just built on a slab or on pilings.
We get an occasional tornado and more than our share of hurricanes here. We evac when we can and for times when we can't, we've got a hand-crank radio and flashlight--along with all the other stuff we keep handy just in case. The radio even has a place where you can plug in and charge a cell phone--for those times when even the phone lines are down.
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01-19-2008, 12:46 PM #22
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Bump, because the weather radio just went off while I was surfing and reminded me of something.
The NWS website only displays warnings. Why, I don't know - that seems really stupid. But it is what it is, and the weather radio will alert any time you're under a watch.
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01-29-2008, 12:53 PM #23
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Southern TE'ers, looks like we get to play tornado watch until this evening. Right now the winds are gusting 50+ mph and I'm watching all kinds of debris dance across my neighbors' yards.
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01-29-2008, 01:28 PM #24
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Our high school just lost the roof to the gym. Cripes!
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01-29-2008, 02:23 PM #25
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aw jeez... that brings back little kid memories for me... we lived in OK right in the middle of Tornado Alley.
We were VERY poor and lived in a mobile home aka Tornado Magnet. I remember my mom putting us in our El Camino and drving it into a ditch to keep it low and safe...
hope you stay safe and warm...There is a fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
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01-29-2008, 03:00 PM #26
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Oh my gosh, were you in the back of the Camino??
Originally Posted by bikerchick68
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01-29-2008, 03:55 PM #27
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a good thing about hurricanes?
All I can say is that at least those of us on the coast get two days warning that we're about to be creamed by a hurricane. I can't imagine the panic of short notice warning for tornadoes. And tornado warnings are much better than they used to be. Not moving to tornado alley, nope, not me!
Beth
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01-29-2008, 05:38 PM #28
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True, but your hurricanes cost $$$ in preparation.
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01-30-2008, 08:17 AM #29
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Hey Sundial, you guys OK this morning?
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01-30-2008, 08:47 AM #30
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I woke up to everything in God's creation that was blown by the wind. We had flower pots, trash, aluminum siding, and wind swept cardinals against the house. A couple tractor trailers traveling on the highway were blown over but fortunately no one was killed. Some of the small portable buildings did cartwheels but other than that, our house is intact.
Thanks for keeping me in your thoughts. The girls and Luke were sooooo glad when the wind finally started to die down.
