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tornadoes
danielgage
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they are firing up in Arkansas now[:(]
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The closest was 10 miles South was a F3 with
195 MPH winds
Lots of damage all over the state
Viola and stoughton were hit hardest
Lots of live video
http://www2.alabamas13.com/news/2012/dec/24/strong-tornadoes-possible-parts-alabama-ar-5232372/
Oklahoma And Northeast of.
National Weather Service Says Tonight Will be Exceptionally Dangerous.
Also Tomorrow
Please Stay Diligent And keep a Watchful Eye
Stay Safe All
Woody & Dori
Oklahoma this afternoon. [:(]
I did a record hundred yard dash to the parking garage across the street where ten or twelve other people were huddled, then the funnel hit. In the funnel it isn't black but the deepest purple you ever saw and the sound was like a jet taking off. After it passed there were new and used automobiles piled everywhere you looked, and some of the trucks had porch posts driven completely thru both doors.
Up on the third story of the parking garage we took refuge in was a caved in place in the wall the size of an automobile.
...the sound was like a jet taking off.They sound to me like an F-4 with the afterburner lit, except it's staying pretty much stationary.
No turbine whine, just a steady lower frequency roar.
Capt. Jack Sparrow.
Forge Monkey - I worked with a guy who always said that Topeka was safe because an old Indian adage said that "Burnetts Mound would protect it from storms." That housing addition in the area of Burnetts was a total wreck.
I was living in Likens Foster in a slab house. It was straight West of us when we saw it. It was so big it didn't look like a tornado. As it went over town the sun was shiningon the back of it and 4x8 sheets of plywood and other debris looked like confetti.
My great uncle was the last one killed in Oakland before the tornado lifted.
Having lived in SE Kansas near all my life, I have more familiarity with tornadoes than I want. Closest I came, I was living in a small trailer house. Back of it, some ways was 5 grain bins. Tornado carried two of the empty ones, and one that was half full of milo, about a mile and a half. Left the full ones, and my trailer. Pure luck. It sounded like a freight train roaring down the tracks, you could even hear the wheels clicking on the rails.
A while afterwards, if you climbed to the top of one of the remaining grain bins, there was a swath of milo growing in the pasture. Started out small, and spread wide. Kinda looked like a tornado shape itself.
Couple smaller towns to the north west were hit, Mayflower being the biggest of the towns. It's about 25 miles from my house.
It was awful. Last I heard 16 confirmed dead, over 100 treated at the hospitals and many homes devastated.
Arkies are tough. Everyone is pulling together to help out those who need it.
Too old to live...too young to die...
It was the Dodge dealer across east from Scott Chevrolet. Three or four years ago I bought a 45 rpm record off Ebay titled, "Topeka, My Home Town", and was a record Scott gave their customers or future customers. Kinda a nice song, guess I'll get it out and play it.