angus
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Been watching the Weather Channel for the past two nights and see that the Midwest is getting pummeled. How are our members doing? Iowa and Nebraska look particularly hard hit.
Midwest Storms - Is Everyone OK?
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vinvac
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Things are good so far here in Dubuque, I think we were lucky again and it went south.
We had terrible thunderstorms all night last night and into the morning. Twice, the lightening raised me out of bed...I am sure a tree somewhere close to the house got nailed...it rattled everything.
Flooding is now a problem for many of the area towns. Kids have been taken to school via fire trucks to ensure thier safety.
Morgan
We had terrible thunderstorms all night last night and into the morning. Twice, the lightening raised me out of bed...I am sure a tree somewhere close to the house got nailed...it rattled everything.
Flooding is now a problem for many of the area towns. Kids have been taken to school via fire trucks to ensure thier safety.
Morgan
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All quiet around Chicago
At last tonight anyway. There were several times today I thought it would really pour and storm, but it all just kept going right by!
At last tonight anyway. There were several times today I thought it would really pour and storm, but it all just kept going right by!
classiccaprice
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Not rain, not sleet, not snow, nor hail, will keep the children from the last days of school!
We're all about severe thunderstorms, flash flood watches and tornado watches in southwestern Minnesota. We had over two inches of rain in under an hour early this afternoon. Then around 6:00 p.m., it started getting hot and muggy. Classic tornado weather. I have the weather radio set to alert me if anything enters the area. I hate it when we have tornado watches overnight.
Hang on tight, upper midwesterners!
Hang on tight, upper midwesterners!
Hope all are well..
Dodged last night's storms, tonight's were south of us again. Lots of rain, wind and amazing thunder. Storms can be very frightening and certainly dangerous, but you have to have to admire that much power and beauty! I used to love thunderstorms as a kid and spending summers at my grandparent's, I had a great view from my 2nd floor bedroom spent hours watching them roll and churn over the prairie. We live in a valley now and although I'm somewhat protected from extreme winds, I miss seeing the sky during a storm.
This photo was supposedly taken 5/29 near Kearney, NE - but then, who knows for sure? Mike, Louis, Jon, Eddy and Robert can give you a vivid account of a scary storm from their trip back to Minne from the convention in '05 - that was a whopper!
Dodged last night's storms, tonight's were south of us again. Lots of rain, wind and amazing thunder. Storms can be very frightening and certainly dangerous, but you have to have to admire that much power and beauty! I used to love thunderstorms as a kid and spending summers at my grandparent's, I had a great view from my 2nd floor bedroom spent hours watching them roll and churn over the prairie. We live in a valley now and although I'm somewhat protected from extreme winds, I miss seeing the sky during a storm.
This photo was supposedly taken 5/29 near Kearney, NE - but then, who knows for sure? Mike, Louis, Jon, Eddy and Robert can give you a vivid account of a scary storm from their trip back to Minne from the convention in '05 - that was a whopper!
whirlcool
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Wow, what a fantastic photo. You can see all the air being sucked into the mesocyclone.
In 1966 Braniff lost a BAC-111 jet in a town named "Falls City, NB" It flew into a tornado at about 11:00pm that night. Needless to say the plane came apart in midair and nobody survived.
In 1966 Braniff lost a BAC-111 jet in a town named "Falls City, NB" It flew into a tornado at about 11:00pm that night. Needless to say the plane came apart in midair and nobody survived.
iheartmaytag
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We dodge it here in ICT last night
We had some high winds up to 100mph in areas. We were in the basement for about 45 minutes (with no power) but tornados passed us by.
Enough already--we had over 13 inches of rain in May, 11 of it over the Memorial weekend. Now everything is saturated and everytime someone flushes the toliet we have flash flood warnings.
Kansas is known for our tornados, but every night with rain and hail the size of watermelons--"Give me a break"
Related subject with rant attached--My insurance company just notifed me that they are doubling my homeowner's rates. Why? you ask. Because they found the house had a hail claim in 2007. I reminded them that I bought the house in 2007. Doesn't matter their system tracks claims not ownership. To think those two nice ladies I bought the house from had left the house out in a hail storm. Now isn't that what you have insurance for anyway, and how are you supposed to prevent it?
Another reason they gave for raising my rates--I show a collection on my credit report. Do you want to know what caused that collection? It was when American Family Insurance didn't pay a medical bill after a car wreck in 2004, and I had to sue them over it. It took three years to get them to pay. Now they are holding the collection they caused against me. (dirty word, dirty word, another dirty word.)
We had some high winds up to 100mph in areas. We were in the basement for about 45 minutes (with no power) but tornados passed us by.
Enough already--we had over 13 inches of rain in May, 11 of it over the Memorial weekend. Now everything is saturated and everytime someone flushes the toliet we have flash flood warnings.
Kansas is known for our tornados, but every night with rain and hail the size of watermelons--"Give me a break"
Related subject with rant attached--My insurance company just notifed me that they are doubling my homeowner's rates. Why? you ask. Because they found the house had a hail claim in 2007. I reminded them that I bought the house in 2007. Doesn't matter their system tracks claims not ownership. To think those two nice ladies I bought the house from had left the house out in a hail storm. Now isn't that what you have insurance for anyway, and how are you supposed to prevent it?
Another reason they gave for raising my rates--I show a collection on my credit report. Do you want to know what caused that collection? It was when American Family Insurance didn't pay a medical bill after a car wreck in 2004, and I had to sue them over it. It took three years to get them to pay. Now they are holding the collection they caused against me. (dirty word, dirty word, another dirty word.)
iheartmaytag
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Sorry correction
The hail claim on the house was in 2006. I bought it in 2007
The hail claim on the house was in 2006. I bought it in 2007
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Glad to hear that you guys are all good.
The weather this past couple of months has been very scary!
It has not rained in Atlanta in ages, and the temps have been in the 90's this week!
Not my kind of weather! Not a summer person, at all!
Brent
The weather this past couple of months has been very scary!
It has not rained in Atlanta in ages, and the temps have been in the 90's this week!
Not my kind of weather! Not a summer person, at all!
Brent
iheartmaytag
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Last time it looked like this, 22 died
BY STAN FINGER
The Wichita Eagle
Thursday could bring a tornado outbreak to the Great Plains, according to local meteorologists who are warning residents to pay attention to the weather.
Computer forecasting models for the day bear striking similarities to the conditions present on June 8, 1974, when 39 tornadoes touched down in the southern Plains and killed 22 people -- including six in Emporia.
"I think this event warrants more advance warning," said Robb Lawson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center has been warning for days of an outbreak on Thursday.
Forecasters disagree on where the highest risk for tornadoes will be. Many say Iowa and Minnesota, said Mike Smith, chief executive officer of WeatherData Inc., a subsidiary of AccuWeather.
But Smith has his eyes on a corridor stretching from northern Oklahoma to central Iowa -- Enid to Des Moines. That includes Wichita and the surrounding area.
"Certainly Wichita, Topeka, Emporia, Salina, Chanute... essentially the eastern half of Kansas should really be paying attention on Thursday," Smith said.
Temperature and humidity patterns for Thursday are similar to the 1974 outbreak, he said, and a wave of energy in the upper atmosphere is projected to be in exactly the same position as on June 8, 1974.
The 1974 Emporia tornado touched down at about 6 p.m., grew to about a half-mile wide, and struck the city's northwest side, according to weather service archives.
It injured 200 people and caused an estimated $25 million in damage in Lyon County alone, striking a shopping center, mobile home park, nursing home, an apartment complex and residential neighborhoods in Emporia and about 10 farmsteads in the surrounding countryside.
The tornado was rated an F-4 and had a 38-mile track through Lyon, Osage and Shawnee counties.
With so much humidity in place, storms this Thursday could form and quickly become strong, forecasters say.
And with wind speeds in the upper atmosphere resembling early spring patterns, any tornadoes that touch down could move at more than 50 mph.
"If you take April dynamics and June thermodynamics," Smith said, "you have a potentially disastrous combination."
BY STAN FINGER
The Wichita Eagle
Thursday could bring a tornado outbreak to the Great Plains, according to local meteorologists who are warning residents to pay attention to the weather.
Computer forecasting models for the day bear striking similarities to the conditions present on June 8, 1974, when 39 tornadoes touched down in the southern Plains and killed 22 people -- including six in Emporia.
"I think this event warrants more advance warning," said Robb Lawson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wichita.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Storm Prediction Center has been warning for days of an outbreak on Thursday.
Forecasters disagree on where the highest risk for tornadoes will be. Many say Iowa and Minnesota, said Mike Smith, chief executive officer of WeatherData Inc., a subsidiary of AccuWeather.
But Smith has his eyes on a corridor stretching from northern Oklahoma to central Iowa -- Enid to Des Moines. That includes Wichita and the surrounding area.
"Certainly Wichita, Topeka, Emporia, Salina, Chanute... essentially the eastern half of Kansas should really be paying attention on Thursday," Smith said.
Temperature and humidity patterns for Thursday are similar to the 1974 outbreak, he said, and a wave of energy in the upper atmosphere is projected to be in exactly the same position as on June 8, 1974.
The 1974 Emporia tornado touched down at about 6 p.m., grew to about a half-mile wide, and struck the city's northwest side, according to weather service archives.
It injured 200 people and caused an estimated $25 million in damage in Lyon County alone, striking a shopping center, mobile home park, nursing home, an apartment complex and residential neighborhoods in Emporia and about 10 farmsteads in the surrounding countryside.
The tornado was rated an F-4 and had a 38-mile track through Lyon, Osage and Shawnee counties.
With so much humidity in place, storms this Thursday could form and quickly become strong, forecasters say.
And with wind speeds in the upper atmosphere resembling early spring patterns, any tornadoes that touch down could move at more than 50 mph.
"If you take April dynamics and June thermodynamics," Smith said, "you have a potentially disastrous combination."
Mike, Louis, Jon, Eddy and Robert can give you a vivid account of a scary storm from their trip back to Minne from the convention in '05 - that was a whopper!
Eh, it got a little windy and rained.
Eh, it got a little windy and rained.
OMG!
Is that picture real?
I´ve never seen something like that in real life.
How big was that one? I mean, which level?
Is that picture real?
I´ve never seen something like that in real life.
How big was that one? I mean, which level?
iheartmaytag
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Go to this link and you can see some pictures of the damage the EF5 did to Greensburg, KS last year. This tornado was over 1/2 mile wide and stayed on the ground for an hour.
iheartmaytag
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Greensburg pictures
The green mangled metal was the water tower. It stood above the building where the worlds larges hand dug well resides. The building housed the worlds largest metior. It was found a few days later unharmed.
The green mangled metal was the water tower. It stood above the building where the worlds larges hand dug well resides. The building housed the worlds largest metior. It was found a few days later unharmed.
Eh, it got a little windy and rained.....
How much of an understatement was that...!!!...LOL, for me who hadnt witnessed anything like that before I thought my life was about to end....I love watching "Tornado Watch" programmes but being in it is a whole different ball game!!!
I think its the unpredictability that has me, one minute your house & life is there , next minute it can all be gone!!
Keep safe everyone!!!!, Mike
How much of an understatement was that...!!!...LOL, for me who hadnt witnessed anything like that before I thought my life was about to end....I love watching "Tornado Watch" programmes but being in it is a whole different ball game!!!
I think its the unpredictability that has me, one minute your house & life is there , next minute it can all be gone!!
Keep safe everyone!!!!, Mike
The last
two weeks, my folks, dogs and cat have had to head for the basement. They live in the freakin' foothills...tornadoes and really severe hail storms are like once every 70 year events in their part of the US, they have had more touchdowns in the last month then in the last 130 years.
It is so reassuring to know that global warming is just a myth scientists thought up along with evolution and a fairly round planet, orbiting the sun, for more than 6,000 years...
Hell, we even had a tornado here in Hamburg this week - something we used to get over here every few centuries or so...alright, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously - how much worse does it have to get before we start thinking about ways out of this mess?
Having been in a tornado in the middle of Kansas in a VW beatle a few years back, my sincere best wishes go out to all the folks hit and suffering from these things. That is an experience I never want to repeat.
two weeks, my folks, dogs and cat have had to head for the basement. They live in the freakin' foothills...tornadoes and really severe hail storms are like once every 70 year events in their part of the US, they have had more touchdowns in the last month then in the last 130 years.
It is so reassuring to know that global warming is just a myth scientists thought up along with evolution and a fairly round planet, orbiting the sun, for more than 6,000 years...
Hell, we even had a tornado here in Hamburg this week - something we used to get over here every few centuries or so...alright, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but seriously - how much worse does it have to get before we start thinking about ways out of this mess?
Having been in a tornado in the middle of Kansas in a VW beatle a few years back, my sincere best wishes go out to all the folks hit and suffering from these things. That is an experience I never want to repeat.
Before...
the usual suspects start huffing and puffing, by "we" I mean the entire planet.
Not exclusively the US. Nor predominately the US. China, India and developed Europe have quite a lot of work to do here, too - and most of the political efforts to date have been to point (well-deserved) fingers at the US while otherwise sitting on our hands.
Let's hope things quiet down fast, in contrast to lightening, these severe storms frequently do strike the same place twice.
the usual suspects start huffing and puffing, by "we" I mean the entire planet.
Not exclusively the US. Nor predominately the US. China, India and developed Europe have quite a lot of work to do here, too - and most of the political efforts to date have been to point (well-deserved) fingers at the US while otherwise sitting on our hands.
Let's hope things quiet down fast, in contrast to lightening, these severe storms frequently do strike the same place twice.
