NC storms... wow

honda cber
honda cber Posts: 267
edited May 2008 in The Clubhouse
we usually dont get stuff like we had last night.....
inches of rain, hail up to 3" in places, and tornadoes. quite a bit of damage around. me? a funnel touched down less than a mile from me, and tore up a bunch of stuff. i made it out ok, but i now know that clog-less gutters do not hold up to their namesake. i am just thankful to (a) have been at home, and (b) own buckets. i know there were some homes lost and some cars blown off of the road (and two fed-ex tractor trailers crashed into each other)--- they will be in my thoughts today. i count myself as lucky.

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  • honda cber
    honda cber Posts: 267
    edited May 2008
    a link to a yocal station with some footage.

    http://www.wxii12.com/index.html
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited May 2008
    Yeah, man, that was pretty rough! Took me a while to get to sleep with all that thunder. There for about an hour it was relentless, and it really was a torrential down pour. The lightning really made it look like day outside, too.

    Thankfully, it didn't stay in Kernersville too long. It touched down not too far from us, but riding through town you can see any damage, thank goodness.

    I heard a tornado touched down at the airport and now there are airplanes sitting on top of airplanes. Also heard that in the thick of it there were 200 lightning strikes per hour.

    I just got back from Greensboro, and there's a lot of trees and junk down on the sides of the road, and the farmer's market on the side of the highway is all torn up.
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    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited May 2008
    That sounds pretty scary. Ever since Hurricane Andrew I have a whole new respect for storms and mother nature.
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    honda cber Posts: 267
    edited May 2008
    hey audiobliss, didnt know you were in k-vegas. my pop lives there (almost across from k-ville lake park), and i went to east forsyth (though it has been awhile, lol). if i was a baseballer, i could almost hit one into hanes mall parking lot from my place. since i am not, it is more like into the middle of silas creek parkway.

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    honda cber wrote: »
    hey audiobliss, didnt know you were in k-vegas. my pop lives there (almost across from k-ville lake park), and i went to east forsyth (though it has been awhile, lol). if i was a baseballer, i could almost hit one into hanes mall parking lot from my place. since i am not, it is more like into the middle of silas creek parkway.

    nice to meet you.
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    Hey, nice to 'meet' you, too!

    Yeah, born and raised in K'ville; 'bout to head out, though, for college.

    I'm guessing you probably live off Griffith Road (I think that's the name?) between Village Tavern and Moe's?

    I'm not exactly sure where Kernersville Lake Park is...I know, I should know...but I don't.... I live off Hopkins.
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    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited May 2008
    audiobliss wrote: »
    I heard a tornado touched down at the airport and now there are airplanes sitting on top of airplanes. Also heard that in the thick of it there were 200 lightning strikes per hour.

    Yea, my dad is a maintenance manager for a Fed Ex aircraft terminal, and they lost 2, and possibly 3 planes last night in that storm (on the ground...)

    I'm up here in Asheville, and we didn't get a bit of bad weather. A little rain and that was it. I guess the mtns shielded us from the mess, which was good!

    Hope all Polkies in NC are safe and sound...
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  • Fireman32
    Fireman32 Posts: 4,845
    edited May 2008
    Here in Raleigh we did not get here that bad. We had alot of wind and rain but no hail or tornados. Glad everyone is ok
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  • AdamRagland
    AdamRagland Posts: 521
    edited May 2008
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    I'm jealous.
    lol..well then i guess i hope the next tornado that rolls through takes out your house. that way you wont be left out
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited May 2008
    Been living down here for 3 years, and I still can't get over the RAIN!!!
    Y'all just can't have normal, everyday rain, maybe a light sprinkle. NOPE! Y'all gotta have something out of the Old Testament!!!
    And I've witnessed the 'Blizzard of 78 & 05'
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited May 2008
    You Carolinians must be real wussies, sounds like a normal spring day to me. What you experienced are just breezes over here and we pray for hail that size just for the moisture......;)at least where I live it is flat enough to see the tornado coming from miles away and the local weather forecasters are the best in the world.

    The court house withstood the F5 in my town and is still in use 60 years later.
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  • honda cber
    honda cber Posts: 267
    edited May 2008
    audiobliss wrote: »
    Hey, nice to 'meet' you, too!

    Yeah, born and raised in K'ville; 'bout to head out, though, for college.

    I'm guessing you probably live off Griffith Road (I think that's the name?) between Village Tavern and Moe's?

    I'm not exactly sure where Kernersville Lake Park is...I know, I should know...but I don't.... I live off Hopkins.

    lol born and raised? kv lake park is off of old valley school road--- perhaps 2 miles from hopkins. and k-ville is a SMALL town. where are you going to school?

    i bought a motorcycle from a guy in kensington a few years ago, and my high-school bud lived in whatever 'hood that is at the bottom of the hill--- where the pool is (i guess it is still there?). good times.

    *edit: i think it is hidden hills?

    actually, i live off of bolton, right behind forsyth hospital. i would be happy to babysit any gear or music once you skip town.....


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    honda cber Posts: 267
    edited May 2008
    Dennis Gardner wrote: »
    You Carolinians must be real wussies, sounds like a normal spring day to me. What you experienced are just breezes over here and we pray for hail that size just for the moisture......;)at least where I live it is flat enough to see the tornado coming from miles away and the local weather forecasters are the best in the world.

    The court house withstood the F5 in my town and is still in use 60 years later.

    i was waiting for this--- in fact, i was going to go ahead and mention it myself in the first post.

    but hey, if you move to florida, you dont expect a snowstorm. it is all relative. and i can say with some certainty that i wont be moving to midwest anytime soon, even though the wife is from st louis.

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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited May 2008
    Anyone see the video from Bama? That twister was tossing around cars and trucks like they were Hot Wheels.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited May 2008
    I have always been fascinated with Tornadoes. It’s a love / hate relationship. I do not like the damage they do but would love to see one up close. One day. I feel for you folks that live in areas where Mother Nature throws the worst of her at you. Be safe.
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