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Severe weather
I live in Middle Tennessee, and tonight we're supposed to experience some very severe weather. This begs the question: what's the worst severe weather you have experience, COR members? I've personally never seen or been through a tornado, but I live in an area of TN that is actually quite prone to them. I figure since many of you are outside the US I could get some interesting near-disaster stories. Anything goes - floods, fire, winds, hail, blizzards. GO!
aside from the usual Noreaster/blizzard, a few years ago, we had an INSANE ice storm. everything was completely coated in ice, the roads were a solid (couple inches thick) sheet of ice...at least we got a week off from school 
Researchers at the University of Vermont discovered birch branches on the school campus encased in ice 104 times their own weight � equivalent to a 150-pound adult wearing an 8-ton snowsuit.
Ive been through a number of hurricanes. Nothing Katrina like but hurricanes nonetheless.
Hurricane Bob in 1991...
i was vacationing on Block Island, Rhode Island with my family (they told us before we took the ferry to the island that there was a hurricane coming but my parents decided to go anyway).
it wouldn't have been so bad except for the fact that we were staying in this little shack up on top of a hill (the house was owned by one of my father's friends). so during the first half of the storm the wind was so strong (105mph) that it broke this huge pine tree about 15 feet away from the house and it fell onto the roof. it didn't go all the way through but the roof was sagging quite a bit. then during the 2nd half of the storm, the winds were going the opposite direction and they blew the tree right off the house.
we were still there for another 5 days and we didn't get power back until the 4th day so we spent our entire vacation sitting in candlelight reading books and playing games. we had to go down to this freshwater spring to get water, and luckily we had enough food in the house with us but we couldn't cook anything unless we made a campfire outside.
it was a crazy but fun vacation, definitely very memorable!
Aside from some high straightline winds and hail, I've been very fortunate. But then you have nights like last week where 20+ people in northwest TN were killed. And the fun is just starting tonight. The first wave of storms are in Nashville, and the rest are brewing over the Plains. They'll get here about the time I'm in a deep, coma-like sleep. Ah, the joys of living in a two-storey home with no basement or storm shelter. If Zoso doesn't log in next week and make a smart ass comment, you know it got rough. You are free to create an appreciation thread at that point. (Hi Arcadia!)
severe weather calls for severe sweater!
shut up!
u nasty!
+1 to FloorFiller. And sweaters.
I went storm chasing yesterday, and ended up in northeastern Kansas. they kept saying on the radio that the far northeast counties were going to get hit the hardest.
and sure enough....
i missed it by two counties to the west. DAMN! 
and that was it! like nothing else happened. just wind, rain, and hail. that sucked, driving through nebraska to get back to I-80 in Iowa and it was starting to get dark out, and rain and hail was coming down for almost 30-40 minutes. blah.
but we were in the textbook spot for stuff to happen too. i mean, it really couldn't have been more perfect. but then things fired up further north on the dryline than expected, and so when they curved towards the north, it was too far west of where we were. ended up wasting like 1.5 hours just sitting....waiting. ugh.
the whole area was under HIGH risk and 30% for tornadoes. and yet only 19 were confirmed yesterday; compared to the 60+ on sunday. was a bit disappointed that nothing more happened.
Ironically enough, i've still had only successful chasing up in minnesota, and not actually in the heart of "tornado alley".
got some cool pictures tho:
these turned into HUGE mammatus [sp?] clouds.
sorry about the bugs on the windshield 
bettter image of cell we caught up with [i rolled my window down]
gotta love that Rear-flank downdraft!
Those are awesome. However, I hope I don't see anything like that this afternoon.
DUDE, I live in Northeast Kansas.. it was exactly like you said perfect conditions... it hailed like crazy here... all i had to do was walk out my front door to see the show... people were all out on their balconies checking the shit out.. it was crazy..
this was not the worst ive ever seen..
i once saw 7 tornadoes at once in Tampa, some were waterspouts and some were tornadoes over looking the bay... now that was fuckin crazy!! still not the worst...
my worst is probably the march storm of 93... ripped a shit hole all across the east coast.. and Tampa for that matter..
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| Originally posted by Zewad DUDE, I live in Northeast Kansas.. it was exactly like you said perfect conditions... it hailed like crazy here... all i had to do was walk out my front door to see the show... people were all out on their balconies checking the shit out.. it was crazy.. this was not the worst ive ever seen.. i once saw 7 tornadoes at once in Tampa, some were waterspouts and some were tornadoes over looking the bay... now that was fuckin crazy!! still not the worst... my worst is probably the march storm of 93... ripped a shit hole all across the east coast.. and Tampa for that matter.. |
Nashville just got to' up. Not sure how much of it we'll end up getting, but it looks like more is still brewing.
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| Originally posted by Zoso Nashville just got to' up. Not sure how much of it we'll end up getting, but it looks like more is still brewing. |
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| Originally posted by Nou We had a Tornado in Tacoma, WA once... it was fucking fucked up, it was like an F0 almost an F1 so it was tiny tiny tiny... but it was like "WOW OK... THATS A FUNNEL CLOUD?!" Put a 2x4 through a persons truck and garage door, ripped some shingles off a roof and threw a cat across a block...  |
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| Originally posted by tubularbills yeah, i just saw all the shit that hit the fan outside of nashville. stay safe, man! but if you get the chance - go outside and get pics! haha |
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| Originally posted by tubularbills dude, where do you live? |
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| Originally posted by Zoso I'm about 80 miles east of Nashville, and so far we've missed the action. I think it will be dark by the time we get hammered. Which sucks, because you can't see what the fark is coming at you. Not that it really matters much, but something tells me that it might be helpful to see what may be your death coming at you. Moral of the story: no pictures, and I need a basement. |
hurricane katrina. was at biloxi beach at my grandparents house on the water. never want to go though that again.
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| Originally posted by DJ Legs hurricane katrina. was at biloxi beach at my grandparents house on the water. never want to go though that again. |
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| Originally posted by Zewad check location,.. i guess you forgot to look |
About 3 weeks ago we got hammered by a category 5 cyclone which destroyed about a dozen townships right next to where I live. We also got flooded by monsoonal rain caused by a second offshore category 4 cyclone.
Is that extreme enough?
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| Originally posted by DJ Legs hurricane katrina. was at biloxi beach at my grandparents house on the water. never want to go though that again. |
dude its scaaaary. the sound.. everything
Once again we were fortunate. Others weren't so lucky .
Would draught count as "severe weather"? Every year the city where I live reaches Saharian-like levels, which is not all that bad, since we can tolerate high temperatures more easily 
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