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Just got back upstairs after spending 52 minutes in the basement

Bubba Jr.Bubba Jr. Member Posts: 8,304 ✭✭✭✭
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cowering from the tornado warning. It eventually changed its course and missed us.

I think this is the 3rd or 4th time so far this year.

Joe

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  • Merlinnv12Merlinnv12 Member Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭✭

    I just got wind of that!

    Glad you’re OK.

    “What we’ve got here, is, failure to communicate.”
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,032 ***** Forums Admin

    Glad to see you're ok. I don't think I would like living around the indiscriminate destruction those things cause. Don't know how you folks do it.

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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,150 ******
    edited May 26

    5:40 est Sunday, we just had a 70 mph straight line wind.

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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,150 ******

    Prayers for you guys in tornado alley.

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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,219 ✭✭✭✭

    Glad it by passed you

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  • Texas1911DETexas1911DE Member Posts: 684 ✭✭✭✭

    …glad you're OK…one hit around Denton, Tx. last night, NE of me…so far the body count is 7 with 100+ (?) injured & they're still digging thru rubble…worst hit was a Trailer Park (Tornado magnets)…the worst one I ever saw hit Wichita Falls, TX…F4 w/250mph winds, a freakin' monster, I cant imagine how loud it was…cut an 8 mile wide path for 60 something miles, killed 40 something & injured 1700…I was coming back from Colorado & from the interstate as for as you could see it was just debris, twisted vehicles & a few shredded trees, mostly short stumps…on a scale of 1 to 10, the pucker factor had to be at least 15…

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  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,150 ******

    Will Biden build an unloading facility on the Mississippi to off load aid to those affected by tornadoes like he did in Gaza?

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  • Toolman286Toolman286 Member Posts: 3,206 ✭✭✭✭

    Susie is in the area. Has anyone heard from her?

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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,081 ✭✭✭✭

    Stand outside and shake your fist at the funnel cloud. It may get you but at least you won't have to admit to hiding in the basement. 😎

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭

    Don't fadigue on running downstairs every time. Be nice to keep you here, and besides, you need the excercise.

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  • 62vld204262vld2042 Member Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 27
    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11440892#Comment_11440892

    That was April 10th, 1979…......aka "Terrible Tuesday".

    I was there......and "almost" in it. Our apartment was about 400 yards south of the tornado's southern edge. Considering that it was up to 1.5 MILES wide......ON THE GROUND......that was waaaaaay too close! I had been driving south.…...across it's future path......about 5 minutes earlier. Driving a short distance west, on Southwest Parkway, against 6 lanes of traffic(plus one in the median)........was no easy task.

    Like I said........MUCH too close.

    At the time.......it was rated as the sixth most destructive tornado in recorded history.

    Time.......sure does fly by.......🤔

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  • mac10mac10 Member Posts: 2,700 ✭✭✭✭

    Stand outside and shout at the devil

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