Shit has hit the fan

Wood20ks said:
My m-i-l lives 15 miles from Benton in Aurora......

Just so happens she is up here in nw Il visiting for the granddaughters 1st bday oarty....

Reports from her neighbor is no big damage,its just that they are without power....

Which is good......

Some friends she knows live in Mayfield.....they no longer have a house......
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He lives in Louisville, now, but my step-father is from Mayfield.
His sister-in-law still lives there, and his nephew is in Paducah.
They're both ok, and it sounds like she still has a house, but she's elderly, so he went and got her and brought her back to Paducah, which isn't in the best shape, but isn't nearly as bad off as Mayfield.
 
ukfanfrombirth(cali cat) said:
He lives in Louisville, now, but my step-father is from Mayfield.
His sister-in-law still lives there, and his nephew is in Paducah.
They're both ok, and it sounds like she still has a house, but she's elderly, so he went and got her and brought her back to Paducah, which isn't in the best shape, but isn't nearly as bad off as Mayfield.
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Got yer umbrella in good shape? Looks like a wet week ahead.
 
Kburjr said:
California, you're next.

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The Western U.S. is bracing for the brunt of a major winter storm expected to hit Monday, bringing travel headaches, the threat of localized flooding and some relief in an abnormally warm fall. Light rain and snow fell in Northern California on Sunday, giving residents a taste of what’s to...
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Looks like possibly another round coming Wednesday.
We got a couple inches of snow out of that last low pressure that spawned the tornadoes off east/southeast.

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ojb81 said:
My ass puckers just watching that. Adding the "at night/in the dark" element to an already-terrifying situation is just beyond the pale...
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Been through a Cat 3 hurricane (Elena) at night. Pure darkness and lots of noise for hours on end. Scary as fuck.

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Hurricane Elena - Wikipedia

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Had our house taken off the foundation by an F4 in the May 1975 Omaha tornado. Daytime though. Mom had us kids huddled in the basement under the pool table.

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Red_Alert said:
Had our house taken off the foundation by an F4 in the May 1975 Omaha tornado. Daytime though. Mom had us kids huddled in the basement under the pool table.
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One of the weather channel people were talking about some flooded basements during one of these. Damn! THAT would be scary as hell... basement flooding while you're down there trying to escape a tornado. <shudder>
 
CorpRebel said:
One of the weather channel people were talking about some flooded basements during one of these. Damn! THAT would be scary as hell... basement flooding while you're down there trying to escape a tornado. <shudder>
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One of the Omaha deaths was a lady who took shelter in her bathtub. She had no basement and they say to get into the center most part of your home. The pipes broke, she got pinned by debris and drowned in her tub.

We had probably 3 minutes warning. Due to the T-storm warnings and tornado watches mom was listening to KFAB on the radio, they sounded a 'take shelter' warning, the emergency whistles started blowing outside, and she said "Everybody to the basement now and get under the pool table".
Like people say it sounded like a freight train coming. You could hear debris hitting the house and glass shattering then BOOM.
The boom was apparently the house getting ripped from the foundation. It was over as fast as it started.
We couldn't get out of the basement because the staircase was clogged with debris. The basement ceiling had big cracks but was still intact. Within a few minutes we could hear emergency vehicle sirens then voices saying "Anybody in there. Everybody alright down there?"
Mom was like "Yeah we're OK."
It was volunteer fire and rescue from a small town called Gretna (SW of Omaha) who said they saw it go by them as a funnel cloud before it had touched down so they followed it the 10 miles or so into Omaha where it finally touched down.
They had us dug out in just a few minutes.
I'll never forget what I saw when I got to the top of the steps where there was no longer a wall, and saw my neighborhood. Like an A-bomb had gone off as far as your eyes can see. It was estimated 1/4 mile wide where it took our house. Dad rolled up about 25 minutes later. He worked across town and heard the neighborhood took a direct hit so rushed home. Mom didn't cry, dad did. Only time I ever saw him with tears in his eyes. There were pieces of our house a half block away.
We lived in a hotel for a couple months, then a rental house for another 6 months or so while they rebuilt our house. That summer sucked because in order to see our friends we needed a ride and many of them were displaced as well.

I'd take a hurricane over a tornado any day. With a hurricane you have days upon days of notice to prepare, evacuate, whatever.
A tornado is on you right fucking NOW.
 
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Red_Alert said:
Been through a Cat 3 hurricane (Elena) at night. Pure darkness and lots of noise for hours on end. Scary as fuck.

en.wikipedia.org

Hurricane Elena - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Had our house taken off the foundation by an F4 in the May 1975 Omaha tornado. Daytime though. Mom had us kids huddled in the basement under the pool table.

May 1975 Omaha Tornado

www.weather.gov
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Elena was only a 3? I thought she was more. It was the earliest I remember seeing footage from people that had been in the storm (camcorders having become a thing). I hadn’t been through a hurricane yet, and this scared bejeebus out of me.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Elena was only a 3? I thought she was more. It was the earliest I remember seeing footage from people that had been in the storm (camcorders having become a thing). I hadn’t been through a hurricane yet, and this scared bejeebus out of me.
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Yes... High end Cat 3. Just shy of Cat 4.

You were in Elena?
I was in Biloxi in a brick house about 1 mile inland.
Longest night ever with 125+ mph sustained winds for about 8 hours straight in pure darkness. We had candles and flashlights, but if you looked outside you couldn't see 3 ft through the driving rain.
Some of that 8 hours was nighttime and some morning daylight. The only calm was when the eye went over (early morning). We went outside and it was eerie. Sun was shining, perfectly calm, but a wall of dark clouds 360° around us. All the trees that were still standing were stripped clean of their leaves. Took about 1/2 hour for the eye to pass, then the wind came out of the opposite direction for another 4 hours. Most of the trees that survived the first round of winds succumbed to the winds coming from the opposite direction on the second round.
The house like many others only had roof damage. When one shingle let go they peeled back entire sections.
 
Kburjr said:
Got yer umbrella in good shape? Looks like a wet week ahead.
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Haha.

Ugh, I guess my hand hit something on my keyboard, so the above posted before I was finished.
Anyway, yeah, it's been raining. It's no biggie.
Santa Cruz/Monterey is apparently getting kind of slammed, though.
 
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