I don't think so. I didn't look at it up close, but from about 20 feet away, or so, it looks solid.
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Tornado warnings.
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I don't think so. I didn't look at it up close, but from about 20 feet away, or so, it looks solid.
yikes, @hbarcat --- what an experience! those are some monster trees. so sad to lose them, but that you and yours are safe/OK is what matters the most.
lots of my central indiana friends/family reported tree damage, and we had similar here in the cincy area, but we escaped anything like what your pics are showing.
glad you're OK!
lots of my central indiana friends/family reported tree damage, and we had similar here in the cincy area, but we escaped anything like what your pics are showing.
glad you're OK!
Here in Dallas, ever since that destructive tornado about 3 years ago (amazingly no one was even injured but there was an awful lot of destruction), they've got a hair trigger on the sirens. A couple weeks ago there were thunderstorms coming through "and there might be hail" and they ran the sirens. This is a very dangerous practice; if they run sirens every single time there is a thunderstorm in North Texas, after a while people will be ignoring them and then there's the risk they'll ignore them when they shouldn't.
Back in the 80s, there was a famous meteorologist in Chicago who always gave the most pessimistic weather forecasts.
If he thought it might rain, he'd predict thunderstorms. If it looked like it might snow an inch or two, then he'd predict a blizzard.
He was usually wrong, but because he was something of a celebrity in the world of weather, other meteorologists in Chicago began to be equally pessimistic with their own forecasts.
After awhile, we Chicagoans got used to every weather forecaster in the city always predicting the worst possible weather and usually being wrong. Most people simply ignored their severe weather warnings, knowing they were always exaggerated.
Which ultimately led to occasional instances where they'd predict a blizzard but nobody believing them.
Then, we'd get a foot of snow accumulation and huge snowdrifts making travel impossible and paralyzing the city for a few days and everybody would be surprised when we were expecting only a few inches and a slight inconvenience.
The meteorologist on the local news station we watch is like that. His predictions are always much more dire than what I get direct from the National Weather Service. The NWS will also downgrade the severity of storms as the weather continues to develop, but this dude sticks to his guns and ends up looking foolish most of the time. With this past weekend's storms, he predicted 70-80 mph gusts which is hurricane territory. We maxed out at about 55 mph, outside of the tornados.
YIKES! Must have been scary?
Glad you and family, and house are OK.
A touchdown in his yard probably would have Wizard of Oz'ed the whole house, several neighbor's houses and his little dog too.
Actually when I lived in the Midwest, we had a tornado touch down and travel down a street, and the cars on the sides of the street were untouched. Tornadoes are special people.A touchdown in his yard probably would have Wizard of Oz'ed the whole house, several neighbor's houses and his little dog too.
I've been in the midst of a few 'nados, including one in Oak Lawn, IL in 1967. Killed 50+ people. Almost got me in my car on the way home from Oak Lawn H.S. that day, blew my car across an intersection near our house. Houses across the street from us were leveled to the foundation. Ours had heavy damage, had to live in a motel for three months. What a mess, saw some really weird things that tornado did, uncanny things.
A few years ago, a storm blew down my mom's big maple tree. Sheered a main limb right down to the bottom. Totaled the neighbors new car. No damage to mom's property. Same house that got hit in '67. lol
Ironically, that huge maple was an eight foot high sapling that we planted in '67 right after the tornado took down every tree on the block.
A few years ago, a storm blew down my mom's big maple tree. Sheered a main limb right down to the bottom. Totaled the neighbors new car. No damage to mom's property. Same house that got hit in '67. lol
Ironically, that huge maple was an eight foot high sapling that we planted in '67 right after the tornado took down every tree on the block.
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A touchdown in his yard probably would have Wizard of Oz'ed the whole house, several neighbor's houses and his little dog too.
QFT. A real tornado touchdown will put the fear of God into you.
I moved from Michigan which is typically calm weather to tornado alley part of north Texas.
In '13, I joined a talented youngster for a recording session in Broken Arrow, OK. We passed thru Joplin, MO on the way there & stopped. A year after that F5 destroyed most of the town. I recorded a short video (1 min) of what we saw: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jf1mGx20sFU
In '13, I joined a talented youngster for a recording session in Broken Arrow, OK. We passed thru Joplin, MO on the way there & stopped. A year after that F5 destroyed most of the town. I recorded a short video (1 min) of what we saw: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jf1mGx20sFU
No doubt. Back in the 1970s, my uncle was flying his small Cessna, and the propeller simply unscrewed itself and flew off. He took it down in a forest, and it's a miracle he survived. One photo shows a mass of twisted wreckage, with the pilot's seat sitting in the clear. It was amazing.
Then, in 2012, my aunt and uncle's place in Harrisburg, Illinois took a direct hit from an EF4 tornado. They were awakened by the sirens, and made it to a central bathroom just before it arrived. Somehow, their house didn't sustain any major structural damage. Many houses on their street were completely destroyed, as were several other buildings in town, and there were some fatalities including one of my uncle's nurses. (2012 Leap Day tornado outbreak - Wikipedia)
He said it was far more terrifying than his plane crash. My aunt was barely able to speak for awhile.
OP, I'm glad you and yours came through OK.
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I'm also from Ohio, and while we didn't get much in the way of tornados around Columbus where I grew up, if the sky turned green it was definitely going to be a gully washer. I actually miss those giant thunderstorms. The weather is almost too polite in Seattle.
In Texas we get hellish rains (and lotsa tornadoes). When the Mrs and I were prospecting homes online, I noticed the drainage systems in most neighborhood house pics & made a mental note; "hmmm, lotsa rain?"
Hellish rain storms are amazing to see, humbling and of course somewhat concerning 'cause nature doesn't give much of a damn about upsetting any kind of stuff.
From my time living in West Texas, there are sizable cities whose storm drain systems are called streets.
True. I've seen many occasions where one house or building is flattened to the foundation. And houses or buildings 10 feet on either side have very little or no damage at all.
I spent some years living in the Northwoods of Wisconsin (the northern edge of tornado alley) and it's fascinating seeing the aftermath of a tornado passing through a dense forest.
Typically, all the trees are mowed down in a long, continuous line, perhaps a few hundred feet wide, with the trees just outside the swath looking fine.
