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Post by Maroon87 on May 25, 2011 7:39:36 GMT -6
Looks like I'm picking a great time to move to Tornado Alley...
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Post by Roy Bean on May 25, 2011 7:56:52 GMT -6
Thanks for the good thoughts fellas.
Yes, Saturday afternoon I was grilling quail and dove when that storm blew up right next to us. It dumped 1.5" hail ten miles to the S on Thayer and then expanded to the N on our East side. The rain chances were 30% we didn't get a drop. It headed off SE and the rest made history.
30% of the city of Joplin Mo. and several surrounding small communities were erased from the face of the Earth. Kinda puts things in perspective. As far as nature goes, we are just ants.
Booger, I wondered how you showed up in San Marcos so quickly if you left at 4AM. You didn't leave at 4AM!
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Post by CC_Varmints on May 25, 2011 8:32:11 GMT -6
Looks like I'm picking a great time to move to Tornado Alley... They forgot to mention that in the benefits package. I was stationed in St. Louis for 3 years and we had to head for the closet under the stairs many times. I have had too close calls with small tornadoes in my younger years. When I was 3-years old back in 1964 one went through our backyard suspeneded in air and never did touch down. It sucked up our 3' deep portable pool and spread it over a mile away. My little merry-go-round ride was spinning like a spinning top, but it did not take off. We were in the basement watching from the small window. When I was 15-years old my grandfather and I were travelling from Omaha to Kansas City (beofre I-29 was finished). We saw cars pulled over to the side of the road. Then about a 1/4 of a mile in front of us a small tornado passed right across the road went down a hill and up a hill and hit a red barn and scattered the red-painted wood high up in the air. That scared the chit out of me being that close. My grandfather was listening to his 8-Track tapes of the Carpenters rather than the radio.
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Post by Roy Bean on May 25, 2011 10:03:07 GMT -6
Doug Heady is the meteorologist at KOAM in Joplin. He is the most respected weather broadcaster in this area. This is his weather blog for the last several days. You can see that even in the hours just before the tornado, they had no idea. www.koamtv.com/category/117031/month-long-blog
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Post by Maroon87 on May 25, 2011 11:28:05 GMT -6
Looks like I'm picking a great time to move to Tornado Alley... They forgot to mention that in the benefits package. . Oh they mentioned it....
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Post by Roy Bean on May 26, 2011 6:51:02 GMT -6
Maybe the scariest most intense video I've ever heard.
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Post by gpjohn on May 26, 2011 7:43:38 GMT -6
WOW! Pretty intense. I think if I lived in "tornado alley" I would definitely have a storm selter. My folks used to Live in Hutchinson KS, they had a finished basement that they stayed in at night if the weather was at all threatening.
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Post by FB fan on May 26, 2011 8:31:57 GMT -6
WOW! Pretty intense. I think if I lived in "tornado alley" I would definitely have a storm selter. My folks used to Live in Hutchinson KS, they had a finished basement that they stayed in at night if the weather was at all threatening. I think I would get me one of those escape pods like they have for off shore rigs, stock it up and anchor the heck out of it somewhere in the back yard.
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Post by FB fan on May 26, 2011 16:01:09 GMT -6
If you haven't seen it, the guy went back and took another video of what it looked like after the fact. When you play the original a box pops up to click to see the follow up video. Holy crap. Maybe the scariest most intense video I've ever heard.
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