Tornado Warnings are Keeping Me Up, You???

gdb
gdb Posts: 6,012
edited April 2011 in The Clubhouse
This sucks, another 2 1/2 hours before an "all clear" in central MD. I can't imagine living in "the alley"! Are ya still disputin' "climate change"?:smile:
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  • Libertyc
    Libertyc Posts: 915
    edited April 2011
    sleep in a closet.
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  • GoBigBlue
    GoBigBlue Posts: 212
    edited April 2011
    I'm in Kentucky and I've put up with those warnings non-stop all week and throughout this past weekend. I'm also a college student and the University keeps sending us warnings instructing everyone to "take cover immediately". Regardless, they didn't cancel class. I still went to my O. Chem lecture. Watching clouds rotate is intimidating.
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited April 2011
    Pre-Revolutionary era log house with stone cellar with 3ft. thick stone walls but, it's damp and full o' spiders down there.:eek: Wonder what it's like to pilot a cast iron bathtub at 300ft. elevation ?:biggrin:
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited April 2011
    We regularly get tornado watches and tornado warnings here. I've never lost any sleep over them though personally.

    You'll hear it if it's coming. I've been through two of them in my life...and they're pretty damn hard to miss...lol
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  • GoBigBlue
    GoBigBlue Posts: 212
    edited April 2011
    I've heard tornadoes sound like a train. My old apartment is a couple hundred feet away from a busy railroad track. Haven't had a good night's sleep in a few days.
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    Dude... I had golf ball size hail an hour ago... tons of cars in the parking lot are minus windshields or sunroofs.... the trees are all minus leaves (but they have some to spare)... and my car sits in 10 inches of water :)

    edit: i saved some hail in my freezer too (I feel special)
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited April 2011
    We were in a rental car at night in Texas years ago and twisters were being reported everywhere on the radio! A really great situation to be in when you've got no idea where the Hell they're taliking about or, what freaking county you happen to be driving through!:eek: Drunken driving helped a lot.
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  • jbooker82
    jbooker82 Posts: 1,627
    edited April 2011
    Here in Tornado Alley you get use to them. It probably is pretty uneasy where you guys normally dont get tornado's.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2011
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    Dude... I had golf ball size hail an hour ago... tons of cars in the parking lot are minus windshields or sunroofs.... the trees are all minus leaves (but they have some to spare)... and my car sits in 10 inches of water :)

    edit: i saved some hail in my freezer too (I feel special)

    Softball size yesterday about 10 miles from my house.
    Windshield replacement companies love this time of year!
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited April 2011
    jbooker82 wrote: »
    Here in Tornado Alley you get use to them. It probably is pretty uneasy where you guys normally dont get tornado's.

    Is it true you should open your windows a little to equalize the air pressure differential? An old man from Topeka told me that long ago.:confused:
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    jbooker82 wrote: »
    Here in Tornado Alley you get use to them. It probably is pretty uneasy where you guys normally dont get tornado's.

    I didn't even notice the storm until hail started hitting my window... and even then, I ran outside to yell at the kids who were doing it :biggrin:

    I had the speakers turned up a bit
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    pepster wrote: »
    Softball size yesterday about 10 miles from my house.
    Windshield replacement companies love this time of year!

    did you save some!?
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,004
    edited April 2011
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    Dude... I had golf ball size hail an hour ago... tons of cars in the parking lot are minus windshields or sunroofs.... the trees are all minus leaves (but they have some to spare)... and my car sits in 10 inches of water :)
    Damn, and you are close. Nothing here so far. I saw the storms go by to the north of me and south of me but nothing but heavy winds so far.

    Duke Power has a rating system for storms. Not that any of you guys care but I had a situation to where I needed to call a 1st responder today. When the situation was taken care of, he mentioned to me that crews are not on standby but on the clock until 7:00 this morning. This is not normal. He had mentioned that Duke rates storms on a ten step level [10 being the worst] and as of 5:00PM, this storm system was rated at a 9. I would imagine Hugo was a 10.

    I'd hate to be an insurance company this month down here. It's amazing that when driving down the road, just how many cars have hail damage. Some, really bad.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2011
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    did you save some!?

    I have an ice maker.:biggrin:
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  • jbooker82
    jbooker82 Posts: 1,627
    edited April 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    Is it true you should open your windows a little to equalize the air pressure differential? An old man from Topeka told me that long ago.:confused:

    No that is an old wives tail. It wont help if your house is hit by a tornado or close to one.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited April 2011
    jbooker82 wrote: »
    No that is an old wives tail. It wont help if your house is hit by a tornado or close to one.

    You listen to your wife?
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited April 2011
    No....he never implied that it would do diddly for a direct, in the path hit. He said he'd seen a few houses actually explode due to the sudden drop of ambient air pressure. He did drink Sterno and silo juice, though.:smile:
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited April 2011
    Are this many tornado/bad storms normal for this time of year?
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    Here's my car after the first part of the storm... at least it's not like the one two down with a broken windshield/sunroof

    carleaves.JPG
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    Are ya still disputin' "climate change"?:smile:

    Yes.

    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    Here's my car after the first part of the storm... at least it's not like the one two down with a broken windshield/sunroof

    A Juke? Hmmmm...well, look on the bright side, hail damage can't make it any uglier! Might even improve the situation! :tongue:




    Look at this idiot. Standing in the way of a tornado with a video camera.:

    <iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5ohIVzIZLuQ&quot; frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

    That's the mile wide one from Tuscaloosa on 4/27.


    Remember folks, if you've been on TV more than 5 times describing what the tornado sounded like...you might be a redneck.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    Just got done with a week straight here. It almost felt odd having a quiet day yesterday.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited April 2011
    gdb wrote: »
    No....he never implied that it would do diddly for a direct, in the path hit. He said he'd seen a few houses actually explode due to the sudden drop of ambient air pressure. He did drink Sterno and silo juice, though.:smile:
    Its a myth. All you do when you open windows and doors is let the wind rain and debris in your home. The difference in pressure isn't that much.
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    Jstas wrote: »

    A Juke? Hmmmm...well, look on the bright side, hail damage can't make it any uglier! Might even improve the situation! :tongue:

    Truth!
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    wow... speaking of hail damage... my every flat surface of my car is peppered with dents.... awesome.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,809
    edited April 2011
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    wow... speaking of hail damage... my every flat surface of my car is peppered with dents.... awesome.

    Those are "speed holes" or "speed dimples" rather. Like on a golf ball. It's a performance modification!
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    Jstas wrote: »
    Those are "speed holes" or "speed dimples" rather. Like on a golf ball. It's a performance modification!

    And I got it all for free.... what a deal!
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,047
    edited April 2011
    We had one touch down close enough to where I lived in NW Ga.

    For some reason I found myself seeking shelter in my neighbors travel-trailer, hoping the reverse would be true this time. :tongue:
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