Thanks for the link, I really like Against the Edge!
Sorry for the delayed post. I got caught up in watching that storm front hitting east of the Mississippi river tonight. Holy moly that thing is a beast. Tennessee got hammered - not a bad idea to check on your nerds. Houston to Ohio is getting smooshed.
It’s fun shooting lighting instead of just tracking them on a radar.
'I appreciate the kind comment.
I saw what happened over there in TN. I recall similar stories back when I lived in Missouri. That series that went through there yesterday was quite jarring to see happen. I have a few friends in and around the Nashville area that I use to play games with. Been checking on them this morning. I sincerely hope everyone is okay’
I think that storm hit Hot Springs, AR as well. We were without power from 4am to 4pm yesterday. A tree fell down causing 100+ homes to be without power for a long time.
The realtor was selling us on “all electric” back in June, but I was thinking, “We need a generator!”yesterday.
Honestly, I need to look into what that would cost. Luckily it was 60 or the situation would be more dire.
'I’ve only seen a handful of the media coverage on it so I can’t really ascertain exactly how much damage was done, but I did read that a large intense tornado hit northern Nashville area, among other places that were simultaneously hit.
I haven’t seen an outbreak like this in a long time. Mind you, I left SW Missouri in 2019.
Power generators, storm shelters and all that good stuff is worth investing time and money in. Especially in a situation like that. I recall a bad series of them in AR not long before I left MO, a large one went through Vidalia and a few other places down there.’
I spent 23 years in the 4 corners. I also watched the storm that spawned the Joplin tornado pass over my house before landing.
There were about 10 years worth of crazy weather back then. I’m talking about really scary cloud action. One time I even called 911 about what was over my house.
'My ex-wife was on the emergency room desk in Springfield,MO for a major hospital system when that storm hit Joplin. She said that the storm was so powerful it literally picked up hospital records and dropped them in the carpark down there in Springfield.
I’ve been to Joplin since (2 years after the storm hit) and you can still see the trail it left behind. I can’t imagine that kind of damage on that scale. It was just a mile wide gap straight through the middle of town.
The 2013 Storms were nasty too, that was the year I moved here. April 2013. So I saw all of that also’
It was so hectic outside that I turned on the weather channel. The storm spotters were about 3 miles from my house, so I know it was serious.
158 people died an hour later. 
‘The speed in which that thing spun up is just insanity. I’ve seen that video several times from different people over the years. Less than 30 seconds from landing on the ground to a massive and deadly tornado.’
The sky over my house that day was going in 3 directions at once. I didn’t know what was about to happen, but I knew something wasn’t right. You can still see remnants of the storm in the Joplin area to this day.
‘That’s crazy as. The only time I have ever been close-ish to one was in Battlefield,Missouri one day, we were watching a storm front go towards Ozark and it became a tornado-warned storm. Never actually saw the tornado itself but I saw the leading edge of the storm. It had all those tornadic qualities, the clouds were spinning around very violently just below the main storm front going backwards and forwards and up and down it was really weird to watch for an Aussie, I’d never seen anything like it’
I saw this while pulling up to work a couple of years ago. It reminded me of the movie Independence Day.
we got tornadoes in our city once. luckily they were just ef0s did mostly very minor structural damage. they came within several blocks of our house though. got a f5 once in our state luckily it just mostly tore empty forest but carved a half mile long path that turned a stretch of forest into a impromptu airstrip. i think the worst tornado we got near us was a weak f2/3.
This thread is dangerously inclusive.
I remember one that came close to my school. This was … '79? '80? I forget which. They got all of us into an interior hallway where we crouched down with our hands over our heads. It didn’t hit the school, but it did knock the upper corner off of the high school next door. No one got hurt, but a lot of kids got the ever-loving poo scared out of them.
‘They’ll let any fox in these days. I see how it is’
hides in the corner
(Lady Cyndi Lou covers you with a random blanket.)
You know this blanket is more like a poncho on me…right?
“Better to hide under, hmmm?”
/smile
/Pulls a few long straight sticks from his pack, “Use these with Cyndi’s blanket to shelter from the storm while I go in search of fire wood. We’ll be eating s’mores momentarily!”
