Shit flipped a car 1 mile from my actual house. We had another touchdown 4 miles from here. No damage here, other than frayed wits and I cut my thumb up a bit going into the basement. It would have been a lot less nerve racking if the siren wasn't RIGHT across the street from my house. Had to hold my girlfriend and calm her down in our basement. She was very scared. I was too. Totally John Wayne'd it though. Probably going to go out and see if people need help. Be safe all you Midwestern/eastern folks.
Glad you were ok. Those storms rolled through here early this morning but didn't have any tornadoes...that I know of.
Helped a guy pull his car out of a ditch near the business park where i work. Dude tried to offer me cash, i convinced him i was fine on cash but it took a few minutes. Cops showed up while I was pulling him out, got a fist bump from a Lebanon PD officer. I was gonna snap a picture, but I didn't figure a selfie with a 5-0 would go over too well with the folks on here, plus it seemed oddly inappropriate. Looks like everyone I know came out of it okay. Went through the contacts list and everyone seems good. Storm is almost out of the state, good riddance.
Wunderground radar shows the storm heading my way but it looks like it's split and possibly going to miss us. We still have a tornado watch though. Ky is getting it bad but Ohio is getting pounded. I just clicked the tornado check box on wunderground, I didn't know there where that many tornado sightings in Illinois and Indiana. I hope the damage and injury is minimal.
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/362...ornado-touches-down-on-sunday-hits-starbucks/ Luckily no one was killed.
A friend of mine flew to St. Louis today and has to drive to Indiana tomorrow, she's freaking about it so much that she called her dad to "help her" and he's currently here in PA. The funny thing is that before these threats alert we were talking about what we wanted to be when we were kids and one of the things she mentioned was being obsessed with the movie Twister and wanting to be a storm chaser. Now she's locked in her hotel room having a panic attack.
XD Sounds like my girl. Thing is, I was gawking about this thing all day up till it showed up. She wasn't royally freaked until the siren came on and I told her to put some clothes on and throw on some shoes to go to the basement. She was shaking like nothing I've seen out of her, she wouldn't leave the basement until the sirens stopped. She said she kept repeating scenes from twister in her head.
they happen. like most catastrophic events in nature, the best way to avoid them is to not park yourself were they occur, which generally tend to be very specific areas. second best is to construct in such a way as to withstand them. in the case of tornadoes, this would be mostly underground. if it were flooding, the appropriate way would be on floats and surrounded by stilts rather than an anchor of fixed length. avalanches and mudslides similar to tornadoes, only well into bedrock. fires are of course a hazard everywhere. in dense forest for example, rather then denuding your surroundings as forestry insists, use noncombustable materials and have a way that will provide cooling and breathing without dependence on grid power remaining connected. earth bermed and underground may help there too. i seriously don't understand why people insist on living in houses, and governments insisting that they do so, that are not built in ways that take into account natural conditions where they are located. and then when they do get destroyed, do they pay people to rebuild in more sensible ways? no, fema pays contractors to build the same kind of inappropriate structures for their location all over again. and this is supposed to be humanitarian emergency management.
Hope everyone made it thru the storms ok. I know there was some loss of life and lots of homes/biz destroyed. Seems a bit late in the year for these events....
We had some strong wind and a lot of heavy rain but my location did OK. Branches down in some locations and trees in others. Some people lost power. Southern part of the state may have had a tornado touching down but that will be determined later by those that know that kind of stuff. Scary part is that it hit our state in the dark. It is hard to know what is going on when it is dark.
Well we never actually saw any, did get a lil rain though. Heard up north got hit pretty damn hard man. Indiana weather has always been hormonal but it seems to be gettin' worse and worse these past 6 years or so. Weather in general too man.
I agree. Not just with tornadoes either. People in high risk hurricane areas need to do similar things. We also need to think about migrating people out of cities that are more prone to high risk weather.
