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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 21:21:02 GMT -5
Hi everyone!
I have a strong interest in extreme weather especially tornadoes. They can be wonderful to look at especially if they don't impact people and are just in fields for example. It's horrible that occasionally they will impact larger populated areas and that is when they are not good at all!
I have a strong fascination for the 2011 Super Outbreak across Alabama, Mississippi and the surrounding states and can't count how many videos i have watched on the outbreak. 4 EF5 tornadoes devastated Alabama and Mississippi which is horrible and i can't imagine what it was like at the time. This is the dark and horrible side of tornadoes.
Anyway, for some reason i am in awe when i watch these beasts occur and i was wondering if we had any more people here interested in extreme weather.
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Post by boffo on Mar 11, 2019 14:28:26 GMT -5
My wife is very much into this kind of stuff. I don't think she has much interest in ever personally witnessing a tornado or hurricane but she always follows news about them as much as possible.
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Post by Tenahka on Mar 11, 2019 22:22:04 GMT -5
Try living through a few cyclones, you generally lose the enthusiasm for them  |
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Post by TimB on Mar 12, 2019 0:39:49 GMT -5
This may be good for a bit of a laugh. I'm currently waiting on a parcel. Funny thing is. There is no extreme weather going on or forecast. Forecast is mainly sunny today, tomorrow and chance of a shower thursday lol This screenshot is from my tracking I just took.  |
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Post by boffo on Mar 12, 2019 4:47:45 GMT -5
This may be good for a bit of a laugh. I'm currently waiting on a parcel. Funny thing is. There is no extreme weather going on or forecast. Forecast is mainly sunny today, tomorrow and chance of a shower thursday lol This screenshot is from my tracking I just took. Maybe the forecasted temperatures in the low teens are considered extreme? |
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Post by TimB on Mar 12, 2019 5:03:07 GMT -5
Maybe the forecasted temperatures in the low teens are considered extreme? "We're sorry, we can't deliver your parcel today because it's too nice out. We plan on going drinking down at the river" |
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Post by linkslover on Mar 12, 2019 7:56:32 GMT -5
It rained as if somebody turned on a gigantic shower earlier on here. That's about as extreme as we get. #fingerscrossed
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Post by JosiaDB on Mar 12, 2019 8:29:58 GMT -5
Anyway, for some reason i am in awe when i watch these beasts occur and i was wondering if we had any more people here interested in extreme weather.
Oh man, yeah, I love extreme weather, and always have!
Of course, it goes without saying, that none of us want to see people hurt, or lose anything from weather. Its more just the fascination with nature, and the weather itself.
I'll surely monitor this thread, and we can talk about things.
I like to watch this twitch channel, if you didn't know about it already-
Not really concerned with his game night, but during an extreme weather outbreak, its pretty interesting to 'ride along' with him, and watch.
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Post by JosiaDB on Mar 12, 2019 8:40:05 GMT -5
@koastinthrulife Have you had any real life viewings?
I've only actually seen one tornado first hand, up close. Been under several warnings, but I've been only near enough to see two of them.
One of them I never could find it, as I didn't actually hear the warning until after the fact. That was back in the early '80s and I was walking across campus, and thought to myself, wow, the sky looks like a tornado, and didn't realize until I got into the cafeteria that it WAS actually one near.
The other one though, was driving home one day up the interstate with a friend, had been to a trade show in Charlotte NC, and it was a stormy day. We heard the reports on the weather that the area was under a tornado warning. It was typical, rainy, hail, etc., but we were in a rental car so we kept driving along, hahha. All the sudden, we look to our left, and there it was, off to the left of us!! We just sort of kept going, watching it closely, making sure which way it went so we didn't get to close. Was pretty cool to actually see one that close in real life.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2019 9:30:11 GMT -5
I live in the UK so haven't seen a tornado. I just am very interested in them for some reason.
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Post by grinder12000 on Mar 20, 2019 8:04:57 GMT -5
I have my own weather station on The weather underground and have had a photo on TV on the weather channel. I appreciate weather. Never seen a tornado but was in a derecho a few years ago which is freaking scary and it took down my weather station. www.wunderground.com/weather/us/wi/columbus/53925Mike Trout is a HUGE weather geek storm chaser Also. download mPING. To help NASA and NOAA |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 8:20:41 GMT -5
Last week we had the sirens go off. The town I live in is in a valley so they don't come here. That's what I'm told.
I have seen one up close in Oklahoma. I was driving and it was behind me. Crazy sh%$.
Years later I was in the same spot at a holiday inn and the sirens went off. They wanted us in this shelter which was the conference room. I went to the bar. I ain't dying sober in some BS shelter. F that.
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Post by Terry Grayson on Mar 20, 2019 9:32:49 GMT -5
May 5th 1989 We had an F4 tornado come through Upper Cleveland County which is where I now live... The tornado killed several which included my wives great aunt and uncle... The local news out of Charlotte flew over and created the video below the spot where my wives great aunt and uncle lived and their home used to sit in the spot on the video around the time of 1:19
The winds threw her uncle like 200 yards and aunt around 900 yards from where their home stood
As the crow flies this spot is about 4 miles from my current home.. the winds were so strong it took the north side of a large barn that sat on my property
Scary stuff
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Post by grinder12000 on Mar 20, 2019 11:01:40 GMT -5
Crazy stuff Terry - so sorry. I had a friend house sitting his parents who were in Florida in McFarland WI and he was in the basement in the storm shelter. Took the entire house away. They found canceled checks floating from the sky in Green Bay 200 miles away.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 11:12:26 GMT -5
Strong tornadoes must be a nightmare and im sorry for the loss Terry. Through my interest of mother nature i have learnt more about America than i have my own country  |
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