Tornado Warnings!!!!

Yvsa

Yvsa

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Dayum I hate the severe weather this time of the year!!!!:grumpy: The tornado warnings are out again this evening, two counties over from us. They usually travel about 30 miles per hour so that means they could be here in about 3 to 5 hours or so.
Of course there could be other storms pop up close by by then to.:(
Looks like it's gonna continue to be a bad year for the "Little Tails."
Moore Oklahoma caught hell last night, lotsa damage. That's down by where the big F-5 hit a couple of years ago.
The anniversary for the big F-5 that wrecked Catoosa and surrounding area just 10 years ago was just a few days ago.:(

Must be traveling faster than usual. The storm's only about 40 miles away now. The tornado warning has been dropped for some areas close by so maybe it won't be a night for too much Wicked Weather. I hope!!!!:grumpy:
Travis on channel 8 is telling us the worst should be over for a few days after tomorrow, but who can believe a weather forecaster?;)

Sure do wish we had a 'Fraidy Hole. I'm gettin' too old and decrepit for this, maybe I'm just ready to move to Arizona.
Feeling too old and decrepit for that tonight to.:(
Bad weather makes me hurt!:rolleyes: :grumpy:
/Rant off.:footinmou
 
Good luck, Yvsa, I hope those tornados just pass you right on by. Watch out for girls named Dorothy flying around on bicycles, and their little dogs, too;).
--Josh
 
yvsa
Better tie down all them K's! Don't want any metal flying around in that storm.

Seriously, hope you and your family are safe.
 
Hang on.

Brother Fred stood on the deck and watched the F4 that passed just east of Girard. Same one that wrecked Franklin just up the road east. Missed Fred's house by less than a mile. And it looks like more trouble tonight.

I'm heading back for Memorial Day and I hope its done. I don't want some tornado blowing away the flowers I put on graves. If it blows me away I hope they don't have to haul me back too far to get me stuck in a grave, too.
 
Originally posted by firkin
Did I hear right, no cellar??:eek:

Ain't that a bit scarey?
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Sometimes.:)

I used to just sleep through the storms but anymore I hear the thunder and see the lightning flashes and I get up to see if there are any warnings on the TV.

The first set of storms died out as they did last night before they got to awfully close to us.
There are now a new set of them building up around Okie City. Looks like the big one is gonna go north of us, but one of the small ones may be headed our direction.
There's now a tornado Watch over most of northeastern Oklahoma. We're included.
The watches are much, much better than the warnings. The tornado warning means there is one on the ground or in the air.

A few years ago we watched a HUGE Wall Cloud
form just to the north of us Right Over Catoosa proper.
The kids from PA were here for a visit and just getting ready to leave.
Their road went right under where the wall cloud had formed.:rolleyes:
Jon wanted to go ahead and head out, but reconsidered and waited a while until the wall cloud went back up into the big cloud.
 
I listened to an interview on NPR yesterday. They had a National Weather Service guy on. He mentioned that we are just coming out of an El Nino spell... and traditionally we have had really bad severe weather in those times.

The Spencer, SD, tornado (took out the whole town) 5 year aniversary is at the end of this month. That was the last time we came out of an El Nino weather pattern according to the NWS guy. Looks like it COULD be a bad year for weather :eek:

Hunker down Yvsa... don't wait if the whistle blows!

Alan
 
Our twisters are a bit tamer I hear :) Last time I saw one up close and personal, I was in college in Lafayette. We' were grilling out, drinking beer, etc, and we looked up, and there it was, maybe 500-100 feet up, snaking and writhing like it was looking fer a good place to land. We watched it for a few, slack-jaw yokel style, and it moved off and then dissapated.

Yvsa--I have a few storm-gods you can borrow. Or perhaps you need yerself a thunder-stone, which is powerful proof against all sorts of bad atmosphereically generated weather. a thunder stone is a simple stone axe or adz head, commonly found in areas where the previous residents used stone tools.
Way back in the viking age, the natives of that land at the time were finding stone haxe heads and such in the ground and felt that they were residuals left from lightning strikes. The legend goes like this: Thor, the thrunderer, would throw his hammer (Mjollnir) when fighting giants, Which are huge elemental forces that caused chaos and destruction. The bolt of lightning was the streaking tail of the hammer as it was thrown. The strike caused an impact that left a stone cast of Thor's hammer, but it was buried 9 miles into the earth. Each year, the stone worked itself up thru the earth one mile, thus ending up near the surface after 9 years. These stones were picked up and taken to houses, an put in the kitchen or hearth of the household as proof against lightning and other severe weather.
Mine has served faithfully in that role for some time...I found it when I was tracking deer with my father in a recently tilled and rained on field. I had lost the track (dayum deer had jumped straight up and sideways three furrows over--amazing!) the tracks ended right at the stone, and I saw the groove running all around it--Wow! what a find. So, I'd lost the track and found a thunder stone, guess you could say the deer led me right to it.

Hope this was all worth the read. Nothing like a dissertation on Viking age archaeology. They weren't doing too bad for their time, considering some of the uneducated crap folk are passing off as archaeology these days.

Keith
 
Sirens going off as I write this, but the tornados are tracking quite a bit south of us at the moment, about 10 to 20 miles.
Went to sleep in my recliner, Barb asleep on the couch when the thunder woke me up at 11:55 p.m.
Looks like Stroud has caught it yet again.:(
Looks like we're gonna be alright so far. Will get hunkered down real quick should one happen to turn our way. Dayum but I hate this Wicked Weather!!!!!!:grumpy:

Thanks Keith.:) I have a couple of ndn methods of my own that have always worked before so I'm prepared.
Wouldn't mind having one of them stones though for the other part of my heritage. One can never have to much MoJo.:D
 
Well unless something is building out to the west of us it looks like we're all clear for tonight.
Smoke and prayers going up for those hit that have lost their homes and in some cases their livelihood.:(
We've been lucky once again.
Barb's going to bed but I'll stay up and watch it for a while.
Tornado warnings are a whole lot like high speed chases. There's high excitement for a while and then it's all over quickly and all at once.
But the residual excitement and adrenalin is still up for me and I can't sleep when I'm in that state. Barb can sleep through most anything if she's sound asleep beforehand.:rolleyes: ;)
Once it's over for Barb she can go out almost instantly. Wish I could do that.:grumpy:
 
Yvsa,
I hope you and Barb are okay. I saw the reports of the tornados and thought about you and other folks I know in the area. Truly hope everything's alright.
Mike
 
What did the ndn's on the Plains do about Tornados 150 years ago?

ride like hell? Hunker down in a hole?

What did the Buffalo do? Stampede to Nebraska?


munk
 
Know what you mean by the weather. First, we had a 4.9 Rickter earthquake last week at 0400 hrs. Woke us up, scared the stuffin' outa me.....jumped up & checked kids & house. Decided to hell with sleep, put on the coffee & wait for daylight. Then the tornadoes & rain hit. Never have figured up the final total on the amount of rain this area got. Got called out to work Monday & got home 0630 hrs. Wednesday. What a week. We still have part of our spillway gates open on the dam trying to get our head water level down to protect lives & property up river. I never have seen as many trees in the water before in the aftermath of the winds, tornadoes, hail, & rains. Hope everybody made it through o.k. in Oklahoma & elsewhere.
 
Yvsa,
News showed plenty of damage. Glad to see all is well with you and Barb. Ditto on the prayers for those not so fortunate.
 
Tornados to the south and north of us all heading east. Looks like some more possible storms may be forming out to the west of us.
A little while ago there was a small storm to the west of Tulsa that was growing and now it seems to be growing smaller, a good thing.
You just never know what's gonna happen with the little tails.:(
 
in there. We had some freakis lightning storming in the last 15 horus.
Heavy rain and flash flooding. Pretty tame compared to the stuff you guys are getting in TN and OK.

Yvsa - If I can obtain another thunderstone, it is most graciously yours.:)
I do have some other good storm mojo - a couple of chunks of wood from a lightning struck tree. The lighting hit the tree (about 36-40 inches in diameter) and blew the bottom out of it, and split it into large chunks that had this conchoidal fracture pattern like when you break obsidian or thick glass. All the pieces have kind of a hard shiny carbon layer on all the parts that were inside the tree, the outside parts look unburnt.

I could ship ya some of that, if'n youd like some.
 
Got an email from Brother Fred who said his favorite survivor story was two guys hanging onto a tree to keep from getting blown to Oz -- so, apt advice: Hang on.
 
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