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Offline KevShmev

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Sick of tornadoes
« on: April 22, 2011, 11:37:50 PM »
Since New Year's Eve, the St. Louis area and/or the cities right around us have literally have at least 10 major tornado warnings, many of which have caused major damage.  The one on NYE wreaked major havoc about 10 minutes from where I live (and caused numerous fatalities), we had a scary one just miss our county Tuesday night, and North St. Louis and St. Charles got blasted badly tonight with a tornado.  Power lines were down on the interstate, there are nearly 50K power outages, and our airport is closed down now because one of the terminals nearly got destroyed. 

I know what some are thinking: big deal, it is just a few tornadoes, but it seems like we can't go a week nowadays without a major tornado warning.  It is ridiculous.  I can't remember ever having a season nearly this bad in regards to storms and tornadoes since I've been alive. 

And it is supposed to rain a lot in the next few days, with more storms a-coming.  Joyous. :tdwn :tdwn
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 11:42:57 PM »
Yeah. My friends from St. Louis were talking about it. Shit went down.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 11:43:57 PM »
My mom called me and told me about it all, she said a tornado touched down pretty close to her house, and she lives in a suburb that isn't exactly tornado friendly.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2011, 12:03:12 AM »
Sounds pretty scary. Stay safe, Kev (and the rest of our midwestern friends).
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2011, 03:34:20 AM »
I'm fairly unfazed by tornado warnings, having lived in Tornado Alley all my life. That said, that could probably put me in even more danger for disregarding legitimate warnings.

But yeah. Try enduring a night like the May 3rd tornadoes.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2011, 04:31:29 AM »
No offense meant by this: But why do people live there with this kind of a risk? I don't get it...

YES I KNOW THERES A BUNCH OF REASONS BUT SERIOUSLY. And not everyone has the ability to move away etc etc

Seriously, hope you're OK though.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2011, 04:31:48 AM »
I know what you mean, Kev.  It's been a busy few months.  About two weeks ago, we had a tornado touch down about 2 miles from my house, and last weekend we had 70 tornado sightings in North Carolina, and the eastern part of the state has been declared a disaster area.

I wish it would calm down, and I'm sure it will...just in time for hurricane season.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2011, 09:11:36 AM »
Quote from: jsem on April 23, 2011, 04:31:29 AM
No offense meant by this: But why do people live there with this kind of a risk? I don't get it...

YES I KNOW THERES A BUNCH OF REASONS BUT SERIOUSLY. And not everyone has the ability to move away etc etc

Seriously, hope you're OK though.

This post confuses me.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2011, 09:14:17 AM »
Why do I live in Florida where I know hurricanes like to have their parties?

Oh yeah because I know of no other home forever alone
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2011, 09:14:33 AM »
Quote from: Sigz on April 23, 2011, 09:11:36 AM
Quote from: jsem on April 23, 2011, 04:31:29 AM
No offense meant by this: But why do people live there with this kind of a risk? I don't get it...

YES I KNOW THERES A BUNCH OF REASONS BUT SERIOUSLY. And not everyone has the ability to move away etc etc

Seriously, hope you're OK though.

This post confuses me.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2011, 09:17:19 AM »
Quote from: Sigz on April 23, 2011, 09:11:36 AM
Quote from: jsem on April 23, 2011, 04:31:29 AM
No offense meant by this: But why do people live there with this kind of a risk? I don't get it...

YES I KNOW THERES A BUNCH OF REASONS BUT SERIOUSLY. And not everyone has the ability to move away etc etc

Seriously, hope you're OK though.

This post confuses me.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2011, 09:27:01 AM »
THEY SHOULD JUST MOVE. DUH.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2011, 10:13:26 AM »
It's been pretty bad recently. Last year, we had an EF4 that totally crushed a high school 2 days before graduation.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2011, 12:29:19 PM »
Quote from: Ultimetalhead on April 23, 2011, 10:13:26 AM
It's been pretty bad recently. Last year, we had an EF4 that totally crushed a high school 2 days before graduation.

Wait, so...it'll be like the 12th grade all over again?
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2011, 09:15:45 PM »
So, reports are that:

-Bridgeton (which is in North St. Louis) did get hit with an EF4 last night.
-That was the first EF4 in the St. Louis area sine 1967.

However, and this is good news, warnings were on television 34 minutes before it actually hit, so pretty much everyone was able to get to safety.  As of now, there are zero reported fatalities as a result of last night's storm, which is incredible when you see pictures of the devastation.

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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2011, 09:38:26 PM »
Yikes.  That's awful. 
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2011, 10:08:15 PM »
"Don't pay for home owners insurance, mother said. It's just a big scam, mother said."
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2011, 10:13:57 PM »
Up here in N.E I've only seen 1 in my lifetime and the path of destruction seemed fake to me.  My mind didn't want to register the straight line of destruction it did.  I do not envy those in Tornado Alley.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #18 on: April 23, 2011, 11:50:28 PM »
Thanks for the well wishes in this thread, everyone.  :tup :tup

More storms are expected in the next two days, with Monday possibly bringing more tornadoes.  Yippee.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #19 on: April 24, 2011, 02:42:26 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on April 23, 2011, 11:50:28 PM
Thanks for the well wishes in this thread, everyone.  :tup :tup

More storms are expected in the next two days, with Monday possibly bringing more tornadoes.  Yippee.

We're supposed to get some too, but our weathermen tend to be dipshits. 80% chance of precipitation today, and we got nothing. It keeps spawning east of me and heading towards you.

I'm ready for a good storm, sans the tornadoes.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2011, 10:07:03 PM »
Well, the crazy storms and tornadoes stayed south today (they were forecasted to be hitting us again today), which was good for St. Louis, but Arkansas got slammed with them hard, and flooding is starting to get bad in parts of southern Missouri (among elsewhere).  To hell with all of this nonsense. :tdwn :tdwn
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2011, 12:06:57 AM »
Yeah, I was in St. Louis for Easter visiting family, and they kept talking about how nuts it was that nobody died given the damage.

I'm pretty surprised the KC area hasn't had any yet. I've lived here just about my entire life, mostly in rural areas, and still I've never seen a tornado.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2011, 01:28:28 AM »
Quote from: MetalMike06 on April 26, 2011, 12:06:57 AM
Yeah, I was in St. Louis for Easter visiting family, and they kept talking about how nuts it was that nobody died given the damage.

I'm pretty surprised the KC area hasn't had any yet. I've lived here just about my entire life, mostly in rural areas, and still I've never seen a tornado.
it must not be too good experience to see a tornado
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2011, 05:01:07 AM »
It really depends on your interests. Storm chasers live for seeing a tornado, while most other people hope they never do. I'm somewhere in the middle. I love watching the big storms develop on radar, as long as they stay the hell away from me.

EDIT: Good lord, it looks like Arkansas is going to get hit again today.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2011, 01:46:45 PM »
Good luck Kev.  I'll take my earthquakes any day over tornadoes and hurricanes.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #25 on: April 27, 2011, 05:52:40 PM »
I'm not far from a tornado, exciting. People I go to school with have already been posting pictures on Facebook of funnel clouds they've seen.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #26 on: April 27, 2011, 05:56:54 PM »
The south is being fucking destroyed today. This is the worst outbreak I've ever seen.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #27 on: April 27, 2011, 11:11:33 PM »
Just horrible.  It this ever gonna end?
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2011, 11:27:16 PM »
Jeebus, I would never be able to stay calm in tornado land. I'd either move out in a heartbeat or die from a panic attack :P

Glad to see you're doing alright, though.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2011, 12:26:44 AM »
We've been lucky in St. Louis since last Friday, as the crazy storms and tornadoes have missed us, but those poor people down south are getting annihilated.  Arkansas got it bad the other day, and Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia all reportedly took it on the chin tonight.  Many are already declared dead, and with many missing, the death toll will likely go up. :(
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #30 on: April 28, 2011, 05:51:20 AM »
What is currently happening is beyond the scope of anything seen. The pictures I saw this morning made my eyes pop out. Just devastating. :omg:

Lets hope this does not continue. As if things arent bad enough these days without entire cities being wiped out.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #31 on: April 28, 2011, 06:23:03 AM »
there is a tornado warning in virginia today on the dc outskirts, i hope that shit doesn't make its way to nyc again. last one was fuckin bizarre.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #32 on: April 28, 2011, 06:23:19 AM »
173 people reported dead in Alabama.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #33 on: April 28, 2011, 10:00:27 AM »
We were under tornado watches and warnings all night, but thank God nothing bad ever happend.  But I still only slept about 2 hours last night.
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Re: Sick of tornadoes
« Reply #34 on: April 28, 2011, 10:09:39 AM »
I feel for you all who deal with this.  It makes dealing with snow seem so inconsequential.
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