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Tornados 5/16
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I saw that and that's good. Doesn't change my point that weather services around the country need funding in order to help keep us safe. There's nothing in my post you quoted that's incorrect, esp. the last paragraph. Re-read the CA fires thread if you want actual controversial takes. One poster said he wished the entire state would burn down. Didn't see you there quoting him.
Edit: was curious so I checked your post history and you have a habit of trolling me by name in a certain thread which I haven't posted in since last year. Mind not doing that going forward? I have no interest in a constant back and forth over the various issues of the day and pulling up posts from 2024 and @Nightwish84ing me won't help your cause either. Might wanna let that go. Thanks and have a good rest of the night!
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Everyone knew a storm was coming you just don't know where it's going to touchdown. Nothing can be done from DC. There are dozens of very good weather channels on youtube now that are way better than tv or radio. The big concern to me is that they aren't focused on sun and our magnetic field near enough. pretty decent video on solar flares and entering a solar maximum this year.
Remember people seeing aurora's as far south as Texas? That's our weakening magnetic field. While some of the flare moves at near speed of light solar winds hitting Earth yesterday were around 600 miles per second.
People that drive that close to tornados scare the hell out of me. LoL
Pretty haunting. I respect chasers who show respect to these hurt areas but also film the damage while staying out of the way. Footage like this is why I get a sinking feeling in my stomach when I watch radar and you see that hook in a storm cell and then the debris ball which follows. You're watching colored blocks on a screen but at the same time the above is happening to people and their property.
Ya I usually follow Reed timmer on social media - he usually gives a good idea where a storm is and where it’s headed next.
Cool for Reed to help out personally.
Morganfield, sometime around 1980/81.
A group of us (kids) were playing kill-the-man out in this huge field and the hail started falling. Slow, random impacts at first, then it fell thick like rain sheets. It was just slightly larger than a golf ball. We were probably around 60-80 yards from the house. Took a beating. By the time we got to the house, it stopped.
This is an irrational fear of mine. I'm truly sorry.
When we lived down south, before we owned a home and lived in apts, every time a storm blew up, I'd drive my car to the gas station and fight for position under the awning with the rest of the car dudes.
It figures about the time you would get to the house after taking the beating, it stops after hail pelting down like that. My Grandfather would always say when it gets suddenly gets cool before a storm hits, hail is coming.
I've told this before, about twenty years ago, in a town north of Harrisburg, Il., this small town had a brand new police car. A tornadic storm was headed for them, and the young police officer decided to drive the town's only police car to the town's only carwash to protect it from the hail. As he sat in the carwash, a tornado dropped the car wash on him. destroying the car. He wasn't hurt.
And because of the storm from 89 i was in, I'm terrified of hailstorms for vehicles. I didn't like driving through the ones I did Friday, but I slowed down and everybody else kept flying through them. Luckily, the hail didn't get any bigger than it was. The storm I was in back in 89, was between Mount Vernon and Saint Louis. People driving lost windshields.
Yo Dude,
I’m from Morganfield too (Shout out to my bros in Wetherby Circle). I was 15-16 years old in the 1980-81 timeframe.
I remember one storm around that time close to July 4th. Lots of hail, tree limbs down everywhere. Me and my younger brother spent at least two days helping our dad cut up / pick up limbs and clear the yard.
One of mine as well. In the early 80’s, my MIL bought a new Pontiac Bonneville on a Wednesday. On Saturday she was shopping inside a K-Mart in Tennessee. A severe thunderstorm came through that produced an EF-1 tornado and golf ball sized hail. It took the facade off K-Mart and did a number on the vehicles in the parking lot. It busted out all of her windows and windshield, and of course, flooded the interior and soaked her cloth seats. The body looked like someone with a ball peen hammer had been hammering on it for an hour. The insurance company totaled it. Whenever we have a threat of hail, I think about that car. 🤔
Had to be it. I am actually from Henderson, but, do you remember when the Country Club in Morganfield still had all that farmland around it and that one tiny, white farmhouse that sat on the property between the CC and the hwy?
My uncle took the job as the CC manager sometime in the late 70s. The job came with the farmhouse so the manager could always be on-site. Uncle was divorced with no kids. So, the majority of my family treated his job and that farmhouse like a summer home and would frequent the CC pool after hours for a few years. LOL
Anyway, we were in those huge fields around the CC when the hail fell.
That narrow strip of driveway that ran from the CC to the farmhouse was about 1/2 mile long. That driveway is where I learned to ride a bike.
On Good Friday, 2011 I was traveling to Kansas City. I was on I70 and was five miles past the I -64 junction. The supercell that I was driving through would spawn an EF4 in ten minutes. It was the one that blew out the windows at Lambert field.
I wouldn't have an iPhone for another year. We were just out there blind. The hailstorm was intense. I drove through miles of it. Racquetball, tennis ball, baseball. Most pulled over, I pushed through to the next exit. I could have very well been driving into the path. At the time, I just didn't want to die on the interstate.
Of course I had owned my truck all of six months. It sounds like someone is throwing bricks at your flat metal roof.
The windshield probably would have made it home, but I didn't trust it. Safelite came out to my in-laws and replaced it on Easter Saturday. The bodywork was done by a paintless dent guy a month later. That was my first experience with those guys. They are truly artists.
@Creed Bratton is from London. Hopefully he is ok and just busy or out of power.
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