Tornadoes

[JackR]

Hope all of you affected are safe. Saw this in the news this morning. A fear I have always had of losing my cars to some natural disaster thing that I couldn't control.

 

[dadsbee]

Tornado on the Ontario Quebec border yesterday at 5:30PM or so, just North/West of Montreal. Over 70,000 without power today..

 

[Budnicks]

Mother Nature & cold coming down from Canada
mixing with the warm air coming up from the gulf,
bad recipe for storms, every year

I hope none of out members or their families
(or cars & animals) were affected
stay safe people

 

[XS22J8R]

Back in 2011 a tornado, fortunately one low on the strength scale, traveled in line right over my house causing a lot of trees down in my neighborhood. The tree on the property line behind my detached garage fell north onto my neighbors garage, instead of south, onto my then 3 year old three car garage with a trio of my treasures parked inside it. Then a day later, a tree that apparently got damaged by the storm but had stayed up, gave up the ghost, and fell south onto my next door neighbors detached garage. I sure dodged a bullet then!

 

[Richard Cranium]

If only there could be a slow moving category 5 hurricane in DC.

 

[Hey-O]

We've had some weird weather here in Missouri lately, tornados not 10 miles from me. Monday, Theresa and I went for a ride, the streets in town were full of fresh green leafs, curb to curb, like a carpet. I stopped and asked a guy on his front porch what happened. He said they got pounded with hail and then heavy rain for about 30 minutes the night before, I'm not 3 miles from town. I've lived in my new house for about three years now and have physically watch the sky split and go around us and never get a drop of rain and never hail. 5 miles from me they got hail the size of the palm of your hand and by the grace of God, we got nothing but dark skies. Everyone gets their turn, but for now, we've been spared. I hope everyone's still in one piece.

 

[GTXDAN]

Last year in March a good buddy of mine lost his 70 Charger R/T 440/4 speed and his 71 RR that he had a 426 hemi installed in, from a tornado. Destroyed their whole farm, 4WD tractors, combine, house, everything. His son and wife and 2 kids lived in the house and rode it out in the basement unhurt.

 

[1 Wild R/T]

My brother has a place outside Austin Tx on Lake Travis... Tornado came through took out a trailer park just up the road, lifted over his neighbor hood & dropped back down & took out the only other trailer park within five miles.... Trailers are like lightening rods for tornados...

 

[SteveSS]

Living in Kansas you get immune to tornado warnings. When everything turns yellow watch out. When it turns green seek shelter. Nowadays when the sirens go off people go hunting with their cameras.

I love the look of the supercells. It's like the mothership landing. When we were out on a drilling rig there was no place to hide. I hear there's a sequel to Twister coming out soon. My daughter has watched Twister a million times. I want to take her to the Twister Museum in Wakita, Oklahoma.


a a million times.

 

[AR67GTX]

We are up to 29 verified tornados so far in Arkansas for the year. And they are still verifying some others from last week. One from last week is suspected of being the widest path ever recorded in AR but I can’t find a pinned down number for it - I’ve seen 4500 ft and 1.8 miles for width. I know we had one about 10 years ago that had a 1 mile width path so I think they are looking at something wider than that.

I grew up in Kansas so tornados were not an unusual thing. But up there we could see them miles away. Around here in AR you don’t see them until they are on top of you. And last year one that went over the back of our property was moving at 60 mph. It plowed through Little Rock, North Little Rock, Sherwood And Jacksonville so fast no one had much time to react.
My back yard - the path showed it went over the edge of our lot but it was apparently lifted at the time or we would have been flattened.