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    I guess if you live long enough you see it all. Looking out the picture window yesterday expecting a thunderstorm we got the BIG ONE. No, not an Eagle Super Bowl, a friekin TORNADO!! It blew right by our house and if you looked around this morning you would swear that I was making it up. 2 streets over it's a whole different ballgame. What a mess!
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    Originally posted by Eagle60 View Post
    I guess if you live long enough you see it all. Looking out the picture window yesterday expecting a thunderstorm we got the BIG ONE. No, not an Eagle Super Bowl, a friekin TORNADO!! It blew right by our house and if you looked around this morning you would swear that I was making it up. 2 streets over it's a whole different ballgame. What a mess!
    Tornadoes used to be rare events for us here in the Northeast...not so much anymore. We've had a few relatively small ones touch down here in the central NY area this spring. Let's hope they remain small and infrequent.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by tinopuno View Post
      Tornadoes used to be rare events for us here in the Northeast...not so much anymore. We've had a few relatively small ones touch down here in the central NY area this spring. Let's hope they remain small and infrequent.
      Scared the shit outta me Dickie. It sounded like a freight train. It tore up the neighborhood 2 streets over pretty good. It really belted the next town over though (Springfield).
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      • #4
        That's exactly right. I had the experience myself when I was still living in Virginia. Late at night, about 1AM, my wife and I hear this sound like a freight train. We were like WTF is that? Then is stopped suddenly. THe next morning, we find out that a tornado was headed directly for out hous, picked up just before our house, and then set back down just on the other side of Rt 234, less than 1/4 mile away. Freakish.

        Speaking of strange sounds at night, and I should be used to this after living in central FLA for the last 6 years, but we had a massive explosion that shook the house at 2:30 AM night before last. When the house shakes and a double boom hits you at 2:30 in the morning, your first thought isnt....ahh, the space shuttle is back.
        http://shop.cafepress.com/content/global/img/spacer.gifOK, let's try this again...

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        • #5
          Originally posted by FRESH View Post
          When the house shakes and a double boom hits you at 2:30 in the morning, your first thought isnt....ahh, the space shuttle is back.

          At my house, that's just a tell tale sign of some late night action with the Mrs. I guess maybe you don't get the same results as I do.
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          • #6
            they all totally spared New Hampshire. Is God trying to tell us something?



            I'm kidding Popper.....just kidding

            crazy stuff for New England

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            • #7
              Originally posted by dawkins20 View Post
              they all totally spared New Hampshire. Is God trying to tell us something?



              I'm kidding Popper.....just kidding

              crazy stuff for New England
              Even a tornado would have to lucky to hit someone in New Hampshire. As for here, the news is getting worse. There's a lot more damage than first reported. There were even 2 deaths in town, but the reports are being squelched. I talked to a lot of rattled people today.
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              • #8
                Glad you're ok popper.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Eagle60 View Post
                  Even a tornado would have to lucky to hit someone in New Hampshire. As for here, the news is getting worse. There's a lot more damage than first reported. There were even 2 deaths in town, but the reports are being squelched. I talked to a lot of rattled people today.

                  Do you have any idea why they would try to squelch reports of death from the tornado? Seems odd.
                  Last edited by tinopuno; 06-02-2011, 11:53 PM.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by tinopuno View Post
                    Do you have any idea why they would try to squelch reports of death from the tornado? Seems odd.
                    I'm wondering what the heck is going on. Maybe the deaths were misreported to begin with. The death reports were on the weather channel, but there has been nothing said on any local news. I'll tell you one thing. I knew it was bad when it was happening, but I had no idea of the scope of this thing. And I can't believe I just layed on my couch and watched the thing happen. I guess that you guys know from my posts that I'm basically a moron.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Eagle60 View Post
                      I'm wondering what the heck is going on. Maybe the deaths were misreported to begin with. The death reports were on the weather channel, but there has been nothing said on any local news. I'll tell you one thing. I knew it was bad when it was happening, but I had no idea of the scope of this thing. And I can't believe I just layed on my couch and watched the thing happen. I guess that you guys know from my posts that I'm basically a moron.

                      I think it's a natural reaction when you don't feel endangered to simply watch. I was in Vegas in Mandalay Bay with a bunch of friends in the Spring of 1999. At about 2:45 AM the whole hotel started shaking from a 6.9 earthquake that hit in So. California. As far away as we were, the vibrations from it hit hard enough to scare the hell out of people. An alarm went off and hotel staff asked people to remain in their room as the entire building shook. It was so strong that they actually stopped dealing on the casino floor (just until the shaking stopped, then they went right back to dealing again!).

                      Any way, I woke up from the shaking and was greeted by a couple of my friends who were sharing the room with me, looking out the windows at what was happening outside and wondering if it was safe to stay in the hotel or whether they should go outside and get out of the building. Having experienced another quake in SF a few years earlier and having pretty good understanding of the additional design requirements for a buildings structural system for earthquake zones, I rolled over and said, "It' just an earthquake. The building will be fine." I went back to sleep as soon as the alarm ended while my two friends went down stairs to see what was happening.

                      The next day when I started hearing the stories of how people had panicked and how another friend on our trip had become trapped in the elevator, I wondered how I could have reacted so nonchalantly. I never did more than lift my head off the pillow while others literally ran down the stairs in fear trying to escape the building. The funniest part of the whole thing (to me anyway) was the reaction my friends had to the sounds of the hangers colliding in the closet and the water in the toilet sloshing during the quake. It was a memorable experience if for no other reason than the varied responses to how we perceived the situation.
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                      • #12
                        Just as a point of interest, I had to go to Southwest Missouri Tuesday and drove right in to the heart of Joplin. Had a customer there whose office was destroyed so they moved and needed a bunch of new supplies that I the humble sales rep had to drop by.

                        The crazy thing about a tornado, especially a big one, is it leaves an obvious path of destruction but 300 or 400 yards off that path the trash cans might not have even been knocked over by it. That was the case in Joplin.

                        But I will tell you that TV doesn't even come close to doing what happened there justice. When the reporter is standing in front of that hospital all you can see is the hospital and the surrounding area. When you are driving down that main drag adjacent to the hospital and hit the high spot in that road all you can see is a path of destruction about a mile wide and probably 3 miles long. It is really sickening.
                        You know Darren if you'd have told me 10 years ago that someday I was going to solve the world's energy problems I'd have said your crazy.... now lets drop this big ball of oil out the window.

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                        • #13
                          Just glad you are OK. I am sure it shared the crap out of you
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                          • #14
                            Here are some videos of the storm. The one at the bottom of the page is taken from in front of a mall about half a mile from my house. I live on the bluff on the hill that it is passing over.

                            http://www.masslive.com/news/index.s...es_that_d.html
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Jukin View Post
                              I think it's a natural reaction when you don't feel endangered to simply watch. I was in Vegas in Mandalay Bay with a bunch of friends in the Spring of 1999. At about 2:45 AM the whole hotel started shaking from a 6.9 earthquake that hit in So. California. As far away as we were, the vibrations from it hit hard enough to scare the hell out of people. An alarm went off and hotel staff asked people to remain in their room as the entire building shook. It was so strong that they actually stopped dealing on the casino floor (just until the shaking stopped, then they went right back to dealing again!).

                              Any way, I woke up from the shaking and was greeted by a couple of my friends who were sharing the room with me, looking out the windows at what was happening outside and wondering if it was safe to stay in the hotel or whether they should go outside and get out of the building. Having experienced another quake in SF a few years earlier and having pretty good understanding of the additional design requirements for a buildings structural system for earthquake zones, I rolled over and said, "It' just an earthquake. The building will be fine." I went back to sleep as soon as the alarm ended while my two friends went down stairs to see what was happening.

                              The next day when I started hearing the stories of how people had panicked and how another friend on our trip had become trapped in the elevator, I wondered how I could have reacted so nonchalantly. I never did more than lift my head off the pillow while others literally ran down the stairs in fear trying to escape the building. The funniest part of the whole thing (to me anyway) was the reaction my friends had to the sounds of the hangers colliding in the closet and the water in the toilet sloshing during the quake. It was a memorable experience if for no other reason than the varied responses to how we perceived the situation.
                              I remember that. I woke up and and the pics on the walls were starting to fall off and a plant we had hanging was swinging like crazy. I grabbed my wife(GF at the time)and we ran to the nearest door frame and waited it out.

                              Waking up out of a sound sleep by things falling on you and your place shaking is a pretty damn scary experience.
                              FRESH > cancer

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