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We are due to have more storms tonight. They are calling for mostly severe but perhaps an isolated tornado. They said the same thing last month and we got 38 confirmed touchdowns. Most of them were going right through where my husband works. I knew if Lowes got hit I would here it right away since the news had broken regular programing. They said at first it was going to go pretty close to the north side Lowes so I was a little worried. I got extrememly scared when they said there was damage reported at the Lowes. I called to make sure my husband was still alive. The store manager saw the tornado skip across the roof hit the parking lot take out the cart return and the sheds they have then go along its merry way. They used every bucket and trash can in the store to catch the leaking water from the roof. This pattern of storms with tornado touchdowns continued for 15 hours.
I sure hope this round of severe weather is alot more mild. I really hope this is not a sign of what the rest of the spring is going to hold.

I hope you, your family and everyone in that neck of the woods remains safe. I'm sorry to hear about your terrible weather.

This is just absolutely abnormal for February...

That sucks, you could ship me your collection for safe keeping.

Thats wrong, I shouldn't joke as it is a serious issue, stay safe!

Well, if worse comes to pass. Get your best sheets and tarps, long pieces of wood, and make a kite. Attach yourself to said kite, and when the tornado comes close, well, you're in for an awesome ride.

Seriously though, tornadoes suck, hopefully you wont get any in your area, and if you do, everything will be ok.

I too am in the path of those storms, snowflakes...and we got the same worries as well!

Maybe with all of us praying it doesn't happen, it won't!

I just can't wrap my mind around this weather. Our forecast mentions Thunderstorms tonight, tomorrow and the day after. Right about now, NW PA is under 2-3 feet of snow and we're hoping that it'll all melt in a heartbeat.

It's freaky if nothing else.

Tornadoes are popping up everywhere nowadays, iirc...one hit Britain late last year?

I don't get it and don't understand it.

Autobot032 wrote:I just can't wrap my mind around this weather. Our forecast mentions Thunderstorms tonight, tomorrow and the day after. Right about now, NW PA is under 2-3 feet of snow and we're hoping that it'll all melt in a heartbeat.

It's freaky if nothing else.

Tornadoes are popping up everywhere nowadays, iirc...one hit Britain late last year?

I don't get it and don't understand it.

Welcome to our changing weather world! Climatological cycles occasionally do the royal tap-dance on convention....right now, people erroneously have named it "global warming".....it's more like "NORMAL planetary cycle changes"

Expect to see MUCH more odd weather in a lot of places!

Pyrostrata wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:I just can't wrap my mind around this weather. Our forecast mentions Thunderstorms tonight, tomorrow and the day after. Right about now, NW PA is under 2-3 feet of snow and we're hoping that it'll all melt in a heartbeat.

It's freaky if nothing else.

Tornadoes are popping up everywhere nowadays, iirc...one hit Britain late last year?

I don't get it and don't understand it.

Welcome to our changing weather world! Climatological cycles occasionally do the royal tap-dance on convention....right now, people erroneously have named it "global warming".....it's more like "NORMAL planetary cycle changes"

Expect to see MUCH more odd weather in a lot of places!

Well, yeah, it is a normal cycle for the planet. However, we sped it up a little bit with all the pollution.

I have never been in a twister before. Sure, where I live we have had a record history of warnings, but no actual touchdowns. We've had straight line winds though and a hail storm. I hope you're family is fine and doing well. I also hope that come Spring time, and summer time, mild weather. That's more like it.

I agree with Autoboto32, the weather's so odd right now. Last month I heard in the morning that a few states away there were twisters, and in January? Now I'm concerned if we'll have woirse in the spring time and in the summer.

I personally hate bad weather and if any weather it's winter for me. OK I liek summer too but my opinion on that seemed to change when I had the craziest thunder storms around.

But hey if we have a problem with the weather, we know who to call...Dennis Quaid!

Senor Hugo wrote:Well, yeah, it is a normal cycle for the planet. However, we sped it up a little bit with all the pollution.

We ain't helped matter any, if that is what you're saying....but, truly, if Mother Nature wanted us off the planet, she'd kick us off....Earth was here LOOONG before us, and will be here LOOONG after us!

We ain't THAT powerful as to destroy an entire planet, and IMHO, to think otherwise is hubris to the highest degree

I watched the weather so far all is clear. There is a disturbance comming in later that is going to fire these storms tonight and tomorrow.It is looking like it will not be like it was last month at least.
We hit 76 degrees today Our normal high is 45.
This is wierd weather! Last Friday the kids were out of school because of a snowstorm now this. It will be back to winter tomorrow though The cold front is suppose to come through and our temps will take a nosedive.

Missourisnowflakes wrote:I watched the weather so far all is clear. There is a disturbance comming in later that is going to fire these storms tonight and tomorrow.It is looking like it will not be like it was last month at least.
We hit 76 degrees today Our normal high is 45.
This is wierd weather! Last Friday the kids were out of school because of a snowstorm now this. It will be back to winter tomorrow though The cold front is suppose to come through and our temps will take a nosedive.

Yep! One thing I can never get used to about Missouri.....if you do not like the weather, wait a minute! You hear that elsewhere, but no where else is it more true than in Missouri!

Pyrostrata wrote:

Senor Hugo wrote:Well, yeah, it is a normal cycle for the planet. However, we sped it up a little bit with all the pollution.

We ain't helped matter any, if that is what you're saying....but, truly, if Mother Nature wanted us off the planet, she'd kick us off....Earth was here LOOONG before us, and will be here LOOONG after us!

We ain't THAT powerful as to destroy an entire planet, and IMHO, to think otherwise is hubris to the highest degree

Take a ride to exit 15E on the NJTPK there's one spot about a mile in diamiter that only gets rain during the most extreme storm, otherwise the plant at it's core even chases away casual clouds leaving the sun to shine on me daily.

I hate that plant.

This isn't isolated, we do have that type of power, and sadly, we used it wrong.

Then again seeming as in general I'm not a fan of humanity, thats fine. With no one to run it, the stacks will cool, and eventualy the trees will return, with the predatory beasts that lurk in their shadows.

Liege Evilmus wrote:Take a ride to exit 15E on the NJTPK there's one spot about a mile in diamiter that only gets rain during the most extreme storm, otherwise the plant at it's core even chases away casual clouds leaving the sun to shine on me daily.

I hate that plant.

This isn't isolated, we do have that type of power, and sadly, we used it wrong.

Then again seeming as in general I'm not a fan of humanity, thats fine. With no one to run it, the stacks will cool, and eventualy the trees will return, with the predatory beasts that lurk in their shadows.

We may THINK we have that power, because we have led ourselves to believe we have mastered the forces of nature....Comes with all sentient "dominant species"...but in reality we do not. When Nature tires of our shinanigans, It will wipe us out post-haste!
This does not mean, however, that we can continue to crap all over this planet! Just because we seem to "hold all the power", we need to use that "power" responsibly and slow the parasiticness (is that a real word?) down!

You misunderstand me. I know we haven't mastered nature. We've manipulateded it, sure, but mastered, far from it.

What we have done though is abused. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, but if you pay attention, you can see it coming...

Retribution is on it's way, we **** up!

Should sacrafice be made, I say spill hippie blood. They're pointless anyway! Spend half the time that they spend hugging trees actualy planting some, and maybe I could vouch for them. Istead they just burn that crappy incence to cover pot inspired null ideals. (they are good for an occasional weekend fix though)

However the busnessman that profiteers off polution, they need to change their ways sooner than later, or else scoff as you do, said retribution will be upon us much sooner than later!

But please, don't take me for an activist. My only wish, if and when this comes to pass is that I live long enough to watch pompus eyes boil in their sunken black sockets.

We did what we did, now we have to pay what we owe...

Like I said, mankind had better change their parsitic ways or Nature will get sick of us quicker than it should and wipe us out!

I think we are basically saying the same things, but with different outcome-ideas!


And you hippy references are CLASSIC!! Quite graphic and HILARIOUS!

We are even getting tornado's more frequently in western washington state but by NO means even begin to compare to anything elsewhere but it's becoming more common as I've noticed over the years.

There was a small tornado in southern washington near the town of vancouver if I recall correctly just a few weeks ago but it was big enough to damage numerous homes,yards,fences,yards etc so this is a disturbing trend in nature indeed.

tornado's,hurricanes,earthquakes oh my.

I have lived in Tornado Alley my whole life....I can't even begin to count how many of those monsters I have seen! The scariest thing I have ever seen was an F-5 in Oklahoma when I was about 13 yrs old! Have been through some mighty scary stuff in my life, but none compare staring down the finger of a vengeful god that is an F-5 tornado! Picks up cars and tosses them like paper....rams blades of grass through 2x4s!!! Not a force of nature to trifle with, I can assure you!

When the sirens go off, I heed them after that experience!

I was at a friends birthday party during both Hurricanes Ivan and Isabel, and there were tornados right around us. We went outside to see them, then went to the basement, opened the windows and played DDR, because we're cool like that.

Wow - American weather seems to be getting as variable as British weather.

Although the extremes you guys get are massive compared to what we get here. Where I live, we are lucky if we get an inch of snow a year.

Autobot032 wrote:Tornadoes are popping up everywhere nowadays, iirc...one hit Britain late last year?

On average we get 33 tornadoes a year which many people don't realise. However, ours usually aren't as strong as American ones - but they are getting stronger and are starting to occur in populated areas more often

We are seeing more tornadoes here too. We have yet to break a record outbreak set back in the early 1900's though. I do not care to try either.
Some people around here got some nasty weather, they kept breaking into the show I was watching for weather alerts. We were spared here though. We only got enough rain to float a boat.
I guess the car will be spared more hail damage and the hub caps are safe. The outbreak we had last month sucked off one of the hubcaps We managed to find it and cram it back on. The dents are still all over the car though. It looks like a couple of monkeys with hammers had a good ol time.

My thoughts... MOVE! That area is prone to twisters, if you're that worried than move someplace safer up north. The south is like tornado city while the nothern half of the country satys a little quieter.

Mr.Bond007 wrote:My thoughts... MOVE! That area is prone to twisters, if you're that worried than move someplace safer up north.

Sorry to tell you, but the first F-4 tornado I ever saw was in Minnesota...I was 15 yrs old and I was absolutely terrified!

The north is not tornado-free.

And, exactly where is it you can move where there is no bone-chillingly terrifying weather? No matter where you go, there will be some weather phenomenon that will make most people soil their trousers.

Pyrostrata wrote:

Mr.Bond007 wrote:My thoughts... MOVE! That area is prone to twisters, if you're that worried than move someplace safer up north.

Sorry to tell you, but the first F-4 tornado I ever saw was in Minnesota...I was 15 yrs old and I was absolutely terrified!

The north is not tornado-free.

And, exactly where is it you can move where there is no bone-chillingly terrifying weather? No matter where you go, there will be some weather phenomenon that will make most people soil their trousers.

I never said the north was tornado free i just said that the south seems to have worse weather. I live in Chicago and I have never seen a tornado. Thought we have had some pretty bad storms, like the one last August, but it seems like it's the areas south have the worst of the weather.

Mr.Bond007 wrote:

Pyrostrata wrote:

Mr.Bond007 wrote:My thoughts... MOVE! That area is prone to twisters, if you're that worried than move someplace safer up north.

Sorry to tell you, but the first F-4 tornado I ever saw was in Minnesota...I was 15 yrs old and I was absolutely terrified!

The north is not tornado-free.

And, exactly where is it you can move where there is no bone-chillingly terrifying weather? No matter where you go, there will be some weather phenomenon that will make most people soil their trousers.

I never said the north was tornado free i just said that the south seems to have worse weather. I live in Chicago and I have never seen a tornado. Thought we have had some pretty bad storms, like the one last August, but it seems like it's the areas south have the worst of the weather.

The north gets the craptastic snow events. Lake effect disasters they are! It is the dead-center of the US that gets pooped on by nature, and with good reason. And I live here....and I love it here! It can get scary, no doubt about it..but I would not have it any other way!

Remember The Great Flood of 1993? There will be no other prolonged weather event that will ever top that one. EVER!