Tedster Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Foul weather is a-brewin'. Be prepared to hit the deck this evening if necessary. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch. Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 My family lives in Sioux Falls, SD, right on the edge of it. Guess its getting worse before it gets better... Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted May 24, 2004 Share Posted May 24, 2004 Ted, I just have to say that you are a very good neighbor! I hope the weather isn't going to hurt someone. http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ani Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Thanks Ted, We're getting the electrical storm right now. Maybe I should drag my camera out to see if I can chase a streak of lightening down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 Man oh man! I was just sitting out on the front porch with Lindsay watching the lightning! WOW! What a show...I won't be able to close my eyes for all of the flashes, I'll be seeing blue zigzags for hours! "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylen Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Hang in there out there you guys ! Y'all got the loudest thunder I ever heard in my life out there in K.C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Flier Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Yeah, hang in there! We got some nasty storms here in Atlanta on Saturday... my band was flying home from Miami and we couldn't land for quite some time cuz there were big thunderstorms with hail and the power got knocked out in a lot of places. By the time we finally got clearance to land, though, it had pretty well cleared out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrysb3 Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Our neighborhood received a dose of baseball-sized hail. Broke a bunch of windshields and who knows what else. It was the worst hail I've ever seen, but that's better than the tornadoes just about ten miles from here... Yeah, Dorothy, we're still in Kansas. Henry He not busy being born Is busy dyin'. ...Bob Dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ani Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Well, I didn't manage to get any pictures of the lightning. My daughter wanted me to tuck her into bed, and in doing so, I layed down beside her because she asked me to scratch her back... I ZONKED OUT.... just woke back up and the light show appears to be over. THUNDER???/ Yeah, we get some heavy duty thunder. As far as the golf ball to baseball sized hail, Henry, check your roof for leaks. The cars are usually obvious, but the roofs usually take a severe beating as well and are less obvious. Wooden shake roofs are some of the worst to take the brunt of the storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 I don't think we got more than two drops of rain, if that. Hellacious lightning and a lotta wind. The only thing that fell from the sky was a limb from one of our elm trees. Not too awful far from here, in Chillicothe, MO, they had tornadoes touch down. "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibescotty Posted May 25, 2004 Share Posted May 25, 2004 Well those storms are rolling by South Eastern Missouri right now. I will gladly send them east with love... Please let there me no hail damage to my car... Double Posting since March 2002 Random Post Generator #26797 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted May 25, 2004 Author Share Posted May 25, 2004 You down Cape Girardeau way, Scotty? "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrysb3 Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 A friend of ours, who used to be a claims adjuster and now works for a large local roofing co. came by last night and looked at our house. He told us the roof was totalled, then pointed out our dented garage door, deck and several other things we had missed. It punched holes in most of our outdoor furniture. We have good insurance, we've been told, so we'll soon find out. The roofer said that his first estimation on just roofs in our neighborhood is about $5M. I once heard a discussion of severe climates, and places like the Great Plains came in close to the top because we may not be the hottest, wettest, windiest,or coldest, but we get close to extreme in all types of weather. You're subject to weather systems that have little in the way of mountains or bodies of water to act as a tube opto compressor. Our weather may not be as punchy, but there sure can be a lot of it in a short period of time. Henry He not busy being born Is busy dyin'. ...Bob Dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted May 28, 2004 Author Share Posted May 28, 2004 Wow, Henry, sure sorry to hear you got all of that damage. Good they're covering it... While we're on the topic of weather...anyone know what the number one weather-related killer of people in the U.S. is? Hint...not hurricanes, tornados, or even lightning. Not winter storms. A clue...in a country not far from ours, hundreds of people were recently killed from this... The answer: flash floods. More people die in flash floods than any other weather-related event. Most people who are killed are in their vehicles...usually at night when rains tend to be the heaviest, and they're usually trying to cross moving water in their vehicle and get swept away. So don't become a statistic! "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ani Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 Reminds me of an incident with my ex.... During the initial stages of separation; prior to putting on my coat of armor, there were Flash Floods (NOT WARNINGS) all over the Kansas City area on a night where it was time for me to pick the kids up from him from his weekend visitation. I was vulnerable enough to allow it to be written in the divorce decree that he would pick the kids up from me on Friday night for his weekend visit, and I in return would pick them back up from him on Sunday night; I just wanted to get the divorce over with so I signed off. I called him prior to leaving and suggested that the severe weather would put the kids life's in danger; not to mention my own, and he DEMANDED that I pick them up on time or he would make a court issue out of it. Freaking Jerk.... I went ahead and ventured out into the weather to drive about 15 miles in it. Needless to say, I had to pass through the bottoms to reach his place. Several roads had already been closed down, and I was finding it hard to even locate a pay phone to tell him that I was definitely going to be late because of all the roads leading into his area being shut down. Finally I located a payphone and told him that I would be there where I could get there. I proceeded to work my way around the closed roads, not wanting to get trapped in the bottoms where the floods get the worst, and managed to get back to more stable grounds while still heading further away from my home and nearer to his. When I reached 24 HWY and began to start heading downhill again to get to his place; I remember the waters racing down both sides of the road that looked as wide as rivers and were as swift as the rapids on the Buffalo; I would've felt safer in a Kayak than what I did my car. I was never so scared of weather in my entire life. I knew not to cross the water where I could not see the road, and kept praying for an opening to where the water would break and allow me to make my turn to go on into his area. Finally I found a break and managed to get on in to his place. I was about 45 minutes late and he was a complete idiot about it. His neighborhood was on higher grounds, although you had to pass through lower grounds no matter how you got there; so once I got the children in the car with me, we drove over to look out point (not far from his home) and parked on a cliff that overlooked the city. We watched from the cliff until the road swells started relaxing into streams.... we were there about 2 hours waiting for a severe weather to pass enough to travel back home. What's ironic is the fact that, when severe weather is even in the forecast while he should be picking the kids up from me, he calls and cancels his visit for the night or weekend. He doesn't like to drive in the snow.. I don't fight it, nor do I need to say anything to the kids other than the fact that their dad cancelled due to the weather........ they form their own opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ani Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 Tornado sirens are squawling right now... just took a peek at the weather tracker and looks like Topeka may be getting hit pretty hard right now; stay safe HenryB. At the moment, it looks as though the bulk of the severe weather is staying to the south of us here in the Northland, but the mystery and danger of Tornadoes is the fact that they can change direction on a dime and a they are totally unpredictable. In the time it took to type this, the drills have subsided for now. The worst of the storms are yet to come; I'm sure. Maybe they will stay to the South.... crossing my fingers and hoping for ONLY a good rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tedster Posted May 30, 2004 Author Share Posted May 30, 2004 Right now, heading to the north...toward Cameron. Used to play at a little bar called McCorkle's there. I'm out (for the most part) in the back yard, scanning the skies... "Cisco Kid, was a friend of mine" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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