It Is The Season.

[PantyFanatic]

Does an easy winter bring a hard spring?

Current radio reports 10 dead in Missouri, but none of our members are known to be in the areas ravaged by tornados (http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-storm13.html). We have a number of Pixies located in ‘Tornado Alley’ that may have a season as interesting as our members along the gulf and southeast US coast during hurricane season.

I think it’s review time (http://firstgovsearch.gov/search?v%3Aproject=firstgov&query=tornado&affiliate=nws.noaa.gov) for all our mid continent residents, an introduction for newer members to our Pixie Civil Defense (http://www.pixies-place.com:81/forums/showthread.php?t=21983) and map updates all around.

[Oldfart]

The old chinese curse, was it not, to live in interesting times?

[lizzardbits]

a good friend called me to tell me that there was a funnel cloud sited above her town, and that her parents' had a tree fall on an old car parked beside their house. Both she and her parents live in the middle of Missouri. no one was hurt from her family.
On the other hand, she is stuck in northern iowa at her future in-laws, from a snowstorm. She said that they woke up to a snowdrift that tried to eat their little car.
Here in southern Iowa, we had FANTASTIC thunderstorms! Boom! Crash! Bang! I love T-storms. but I unplugged my PC and cable modem just in case.

[Pita]

We are under a tornado watch tonight and going to have big thunderstorms. :mad:

[Sugarsprinkles]

Does an easy winter bring a hard spring?

Current radio reports 10 dead in Missouri, but none of our members are known to be in the areas ravaged by tornados (http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-storm13.html).


Really?? There were a couple of tornadoes about 30 miles from me and we were under a tornado warning most of the evening. Now, let me tell you, we were scared shitless. Not that I haven't been through tornado warnings before, but now I'm living in a mobile home and without a working car there was nowhere to run to for safe haven. Mr. Sprinkles and I did what we could and huddled in our hallway. It wouldn't have helped if a twister blew the place to bits, but we figured if it was just a close call we'd better be where there was only one tiny window. We had a hell of a hail storm though, and let me tell you the noise in here was something else!! We really were a sight...huddled on folding chairs, holding hands with 6 cats all curling around our feet.
The worst of the tornadoes were closer to St. Louis, but we DID get some not that far from me.

[scotzoidman]

...I'm living in a mobile home and without a working car there was nowhere to run to for safe haven. Mr. Sprinkles and I did what we could and huddled in our hallway. It wouldn't have helped if a twister blew the place to bits, but we figured if it was just a close call we'd better be where there was only one tiny window. We had a hell of a hail storm though, and let me tell you the noise in here was something else!! We really were a sight...huddled on folding chairs, holding hands with 6 cats all curling around our feet.
As Johnny Fever once said, "God must hate mobile homes, cause if He didn't, He wouldn't send tornados out after them..."

[sassee]

As I live in TX, dead in tornado alley, they keep threatening tornadoes, and after a truly bizarre TX winter (a freeze-over in Jan. and then back into the 80s?) it's back down to forty-something and they're calling for a freeze this weekend.

It's true what they say; when you're from TX you have to be prepared for anything.

Tornadoes always terrify me. When I was a kid my mom would wake me up in the middle of the night 'cause sirens would be going off and we'd get in the car and drive to an overpass bridge & wait it out. It always scared me because I thought I'd get sucked right out. I never was in an actual tornado, though.

Hope everyone's keeping safe during this crazy season!

[Sugarsprinkles]

As Johnny Fever once said, "God must hate mobile homes, cause if He didn't, He wouldn't send tornados out after them..."

Right, Scotz.......as a rule the twisters usually go way North of us. We're right in the hills and generally we're pretty safe here. This was unusual. If this was an area that got tornadoes on a regular basis I NEVER would have moved into a mobile home. The damn things are tonado magnets!! And I plan on getting the hell out as soon as financially possible. However, we did find out yesterday that there is a storm shelter behind the landlady's house. Wish we would have known sooner.

[sodaklostsoul]

:bump:

[scotzoidman]

I just realised this was an old post bumped by soda, but I still would like PF to expand his maps of the coverage area for "tornado alley"...e.g., we have twisters all thru west & middle TN too often for my comfort...not so much east TN (where a certain Pixie I know lives), but even there it's not impossible...
PF, for a good idea of the total reach of the alley, check out the touchdown sites for the massive outbreak of April 1974, which wiped Xenia, OH off the map, literally...we had touchdowns & comparatively minor damage 5 miles from my house...

[PantyFanatic]

"Tornado Alley (http://www.tornadochaser.net/tornalley.html)" seems to be more of 'Tornado Autobahn'. There is a pretty wide swatch that covers a lot of area including western Tennessee, but that's only where they spend MOST of their time. They seem to enjoy ventures to most any place in the country.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h102/PantyFanatic/tornadoalley.jpg

I'm very familiar with Xenia, even when it was there.:rolleyes: My firsthand lesson of 'tornados' was the local destruction in 1953 when a family of 5 who's two daughter that went to grade school with me, was killed a couple blocks away from my house. This memory led me to search the web and I found that tornados seem to have an enticement to towns named Cleveland. The Clevelands in Arkansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas have all had visits and I didn't even know there were that many Clevelands. :o

[IowaMan]

Cool, I moved from the yellow portion of Iowa to the white just about a year ago. :nana::nana::nana:

But since I'm getting all this work on my house done, I suppose it will draw in one of the damn things like a magnet. :yikes:

I'm fascinated by tornadoes and have seen probably a dozen of them over the years. Sort of an adrenaline rush I guess. They are so incredibly powerful and scary though.

[Winston77]

I am here

[dicksbro]

Like IowaMan, I've probably seen a dozen or so over the years and we get one or two warnings just about every year of one in our area. I think it was maybe in 2002 (+/-) that a path through the west edge of our town was laid waste by one and couple of years before that, one caught the south side. Too close for comfort, if you ask me. :(