Now we’re getting a good feel of what the folks in the plains get with bad-butt weather. Since Friday - there’s been about 5 confirmed twisters, multiple more (over a dozen) still being confirmed. They aren’t new to us - but in the short span of a couple days … OY ! ! !
We were spared, had a couple forming up, but luckily they blew apart. Last one disintegrated over our house - house shook enough to really feel it. Closest was about 10 miles west - it took out 4 houses - damaged a number of other buildings, and took a number of trucks off the highway. And that one was tagged by the environment boys at a F4. No fatalities though, out of any of them. One house that was torn apart was apparently sold Friday nite - flattened Saturday.
I love the severe weather - stand outside and watch it too (video taping it now) … had a few lightning feelers creep out from me - one off the camera - pretty cool to watch and hear the snap - but when you think of it … not so cool if it would have connected with the big one.
Anyhow - wife and kids are now guns shy. Since Thursday we’ve been hit one way or another. Thursday we had a cold front collapse on us as we were coming home. Shook the van good. That was uglier than a twister - cold grey-white fingers rolling down just saying we’re coming … just prior to that we were watching a fuinnel cloud try to decide if it was coming or going … it went … so that shook them up.
Topped all off last nite with a huge thunderstorm … and lost power for a couple hours.
And what’s in forecast for tonite … yup - more.
Lots of rain lately - high humidity, temps in the 80’s … and another cold front apparently coming … more warnings …
okokokokok … enuf already. Bad weather is nuthin new … but this is much
I lived in Kansas for about a million years and saw a bunch of nastey weather that I never saw as I was growing up on the east coast.
Amazing lightning storms that make a person think that jugment day is right now!!!
Tornados, well ,only one and that one was weird. It was laying down like a worm and rolling hard and kicking up a lot of debris.
Ever seen the movie"The Wizard of Oz"?
Its like the little girl said"Theres no place like home" :lol:
Move out here to Washington. Heck all we got is earthquakes, volcanoes, 90 mph wind storms (not many twisters), freezing rain, regular rain up to 120 inches a year with major flooding, and an occasional snow storm. Not bad.
Saw reports of your ghastly weather on our local news station. Some how I’ve never pictured weather like that in Manitoba!! Sure hope you all have a secure basement to hunker in! Please be safe.
Betty
Weather at its finest … no quakes, volcanoes or hurricanes though … yet.
Betty … can’t hide - gotta test that 10wt bamboo out somewhere in high winds … :lol: … okokok, in my dreams … but when the finger comes down, I’ll be in the cellar in no time flat - just a tad slower than the wife and kids. I like daring Ma Nature, but know when to draw the line. Besides, I heard they stocked the Black Hills with one brookie … I gotta go find it in a few weeks. 8)
I lived in northern Michigan for 10 years and always thought that was a great place if you wanted to get away from natural disasters. Tornados are extremely rare in the central area of the state. No earthquakes, No hurricanes, No flash floods, No mudslides. About the only 2 things that happen yearly are forest fires and snow. But for the most part they were both easy to deal with.
I grew up in northern Ohio. I remember when I was little and the Tornado warnings would go off in town. I’d run to my bedroom and haul all my baseball cards down t the basement :lol:
Now I’m in upstate NY. Seems pretty safe here so far…
Darrell,
You gunna go terrorize that one poor little brookie that just found a home? :shock: Try Al Campbells Deerfield Special.
Cheyenne Crossing is open again!! Mountain Medly pie is on the menu, and is absolutely incredible!! Now they serve it warm, with ice cream!! OMG! I’m drooling just thinking about it!!!
Betty
Backwoods,
It sounds sort of crazy, but it works …
If you have a small vise grip plyers, you can hold the hook in the grip, and hold the handles of the plyers between your knees. Not real pretty, but in a bind, it does work. Sometimes you just need to be a bit creative!!
Betty
I bought a large box of fly tying/rod building stuff at a yard sale one time.
In it was a pair of small vice grips with a “nut” welded to one side.
This was apparently meant to be screwed onto some kind of base for a tying vice like Betty discribes
I’ve never tried it out, but I thought it was a great idea