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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2011 10:00:22 GMT -5
It has to be the result of earths rapid heating increase. Why is it that this area has seen Tornado's in the past days. The one that hit Rome on Tuesday was ruled a Tornado. They thing the reason why a roof was torn off a house last night in Frankfort was because of a tornado touchdown. The weather systems certainly changing.
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Post by JGRobinson on Apr 28, 2011 10:15:09 GMT -5
Actually, I see this weather pattern reflective of the 60's. We used to get an occasional twister and horrendous winters.
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Post by firstamendment on Apr 28, 2011 11:15:37 GMT -5
I think the climate ebbs and flows like the tides of the ocean, just takes a lot longer to do it. We used to see much heavier winters when I was a kid and before than we have lately. But we've still gotten a few bad storms where we got hammered like times ago.
What I would be more concerned with is any radiation released into the atmosphere in Japan making its way over here. Seeing a tornado coming you can try to get out of the way. Radiation on the other hand, you have no idea its even there. Very scary
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Post by Clipper on Apr 28, 2011 12:07:26 GMT -5
I was up until 2AM watching the weather warnings and tracking storms in the area. We had several tornadoes touch down all around us, and there was death and destruction quite close by. I have a friend that operates a fiberglass tank manufacturing business about 29 miles from here, and his buildings were destroyed. Across the interstate from his business is a huge Petro Truck plaza. A tractor trailer was blown through the front wall and into the dining room and others were tossed around like matchbox toys. A motel across the street had all the siding and the roof torn off. Several people were killed. South of us about 20 miles and to the East about the same distance, tornadoes took 7 lives at present count and cut paths of destruction 4 and 5 miles long and 3 miles wide.
We are fortunate to have a shelter in our detached garage, constructed of cinder block with a reinforced overhead. We had our little ditty bag with a change of clothes and some bottled water, our strong box with important papers, and our weather radio standing by. I watched until 2 AM when the storms had passed by, and we were ready to move to the garage if anything even came close.
We did have some pretty heavy straight line winds and super cell thunderstorms pass through, but we were lucky enough to escape damage. Hail took a lot of leaves off the trees, but the vehicles were under the carport. I do have to inspect the roof of the travel trailer for hail damage.
I hope everyone up there was spared any damage. My son says there was some real scary storms around Utica also.
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 28, 2011 20:34:09 GMT -5
Looks like Tennessee was the second hardest hit, Clipper.
"Dave Imy, a NOAA meteorologist, said the number of deaths in Wednesday's storm system was the most in any tornado outbreak since 1974, when 315 people died.
The weather system had killed at least 298 people in six southern states, based on figures obtained Thursday by the Raycom News Network. That number continues to rise.
Tennessee reported 34 fatalities, 32 in Mississippi, 14 in Georgia, 12 in Arkansas, 11 in Virginia and 1 in Kentucky.
Alabama took the hardest hit by far. As of Thursday afternoon, 194 people were confirmed dead by the Alabama Emergency Management office."
- WIS-TV.com
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