Storm aftermath pictures and coffee kit pics

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DFW_Dave

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Well we had storms roll through last week. The destruction in our neighborhood was 2 out of 3 houses had some sort of damage...

The power was knocked out for the day, a perfect opportunity to breakout some of my travel/camping kit.

GSI Coffee maker, Brasslite Turbo 2D stove, and Evernew Ti cup
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Alley behind house
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Tree next to street snapped in half
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Looking to the right from in front of our home
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Looking to the left, the building down at the end is a church with the roof blown off.
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Random pictures of the neighbor's damage...
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We had some rough weather in my neighborhood but nothing severe, just a lot of small branches and such. That looks a lot like the damage I saw in DeSoto.
 
Man that's some serious wind ya had there, I won't be so quick to complain the next time I get a flurry of leaves blown onto my garden now !!!
 
Yikes. That must have been some serious wind to rip up a steel roof like that :eek:

Glad you're OK and still had good coffee :)
 
Man, that uprooted willow tree gets one's attention! :eek:

I lost one small limb off a cedar elm, chopped it up yesterday...

Hope everyone made it ok there. :thumbup:

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If you look close it's 2 willow's that were uprooted... Lot's of that in the neighborhood, I just did not feel like walking around taking pictures of everyone's misery... I just took the pic's around our house, then took the dogs for a walk to survey the damage. It was then that I realized that a few blocks in either direction (E-W) there was little or no damage.
 
Glad you are OK. The only time I have seen damage like that is when a tornado touched down a couple of miles from where we live.
 
Glad yo guys made it out ok. We didn't get any of that mess down here in ATX, but heard it was bad...and a big kudos for deciding not to go out and take your neighbors' troubles as a photo opp...
 
We came out just fine. Since I enjoy camping and gadgets, we were fairly well prepared. We talk about being prepared, but when the situation arises it is very easy to see where the weak spots are in the prep... for us it was the lack of a weather alert radio and news radio.

I rectified it with:

Sony ICF-SW7600GR Stereo FM/AM World Band Receiver Radio

Reviewed here:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1534

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and a:

Midland WR-300 WR300 Weather Alert Radio

Reviewed here:
http://www.radioreference.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64323
http://www.amazon.com/review/produc...cm_cr_acr_txt?_encoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1


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dougo83 said:
Glad yo guys made it out ok. We didn't get any of that mess down here in ATX, but heard it was bad...and a big kudos for deciding not to go out and take your neighbors' troubles as a photo opp...
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Yep, but as a FYI from personal expirience, always try to document an event no matter how little you feel like doing it.
 
DFW_Dave said:
Well we had storms roll through last week. The destruction in our neighborhood was 2 out of 3 houses had some sort of damage...

The power was knocked out for the day, a perfect opportunity to breakout some of my travel/camping kit.

GSI Coffee maker, Brasslite Turbo 2D stove, and Evernew Ti cup

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Glad everything is OK and you're safe.

The pic above is why I'm such a fan of natural gas stoves. In Detroit power falures were common in the winter while I was growing up. A natural gas stove lets one cook, boil water, and to some extent, heat part of the house in the event of a power outage.

CO must be taken into consideration but if you're careful, gas is a blessing when its freezing outside and the power is down for days at a time.

Good grab on the radios too. I use a Sony AM/FM/TV/Weather radio but I need to upgrade to a NOAA radio. The only bad part about the NOAA/Weather radios near the Michigan shores is that you get hammerd with Small Craft Advisory reports.

Chris
 
I have enough alchohol on hand to use the stoves exclusively for three meals a day for thirty days. When that runs out I also have a bushbuddy wood stove that I could use in the fireplace to continue cooking with minimal wood. I currently have five bags of hickory on hand (for the smoker) but that much would last month's in the bushbuddy.

The fireplace has a gas system that I could also use to warm up with, it just has not occured to me until you mentioned it.
 
Pretty cool. Those look like Bradford Pears, are they? Bradfords break if you fart on em wrong, but that uprooted willow is scary. Good wood willow. hard to get too.
 
Yes, mine was a bradford pear. I knew the storm was worse than anything I had seen previously when I looked out the window and the trees were being pushed down by the wind, even with the fence.

I have seen many limbs broken off of the pear trees in the past, mine is the first I have seen that the trunk was broken.

The willows were not the only two trees uprooted there were four more trees in my neighborhood. Strong winds... no injuries and lessons learned.
 
So, you're in Atlanta?? I had two bradfords break in half two years ago. The trees were ~11 years old. Thats about as long as they'll live before they break under their own weight. They get covered with those gorgeous white flowers in the spring. The flowers smell like old socks. LOL.
 
Nice coffee maker. Is that an espresso version? Or some other version?
 
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