Good morning
Hahahah. We just (as in 1/2 hour ago) had a tornado pass over our house.
This one was high enough to be mostly harmless, but it passed within a spit n’ a holler of your boy. Our landlord was in the front yard at the time and he watched it go overhead. It rumbled like a train, but . . . it’s not really like a train. It sounded like if WHOOSH and WHOOM had a baby and it lasted for about 45 seconds.
That yellow house in the picture? That’s our house!
You know how tornados can take seemingly harmless things, and speed them up so fucking fast that they become deadly things? Like putting a piece of straw 6 inches into a tree? This one apparently had a sense of humor. It dredged up a plastic party beer cup from somewhere and lodged it into the wheel well of Emily’s car. :D
March 12th, 2006 at 11:33 am
Man, do you have any idea how hard the wind had to be blowing to stick that cup into that wheel well?
Lethal!
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March 13th, 2006 at 11:23 am
This from stltoday.com:
Greg Koch, a meteorologist with the weather service in Pleasant Hill, said the first tornado was reported around 8 a.m. in Lawrence, Kan., where it damaged buildings across town, including at the University of Kansas, and knocked the spires off one of the city’s oldest churches.
Congratulations. Sounds like the twisters got worse as they went East, though.
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March 13th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
ck said:
“Statistically, my home just got more tornado-proof than it was before. :)”
Only by the law of averages, dude. By the law of probability, you’re still just as fucked as you were last week.
Whereas here in the BA, the situation is reversed. There’s only a 1-in-300 chance of the Big One hitting in any given year… but the law of averages says that year is coming right up.
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March 13th, 2006 at 6:44 pm
Woooo! You go CK! Thanks for adding a blog where we can respond without being members to SG. Plus, we get to see your pics!
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So THAT’S what happened to my plastic beer cup! If you see my iPod wedged in anything, let me know.
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March 15th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Yea! I’m so glad I can get in to the fray now! E and I watched one form over our house a few years back. Well what happened is he was outside watching the whole thing form, I ran out to grab him and make him come inside and take cover and was instantly mesmerized by the swirling sky! It touched down not 2 miles away. One of the coolest and most ominous things you’ve ever seen?
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