It was a F-2 Tornado

Glad it wasn't worse, Bill. As a native Kansan, I can commiserate with you and your fellow citizens. The pix were all too familiar.

Bill, glad everything is OK, between hurricanes and tornadoes those pictures made me feel right at home!

Of course you realize if you hadn't bought that generator the power wouldn't have come on for at least a few days

Jeff DeWitt

Bill Glass wrote:

Bill,

Your first email came up blank, just got another and it was complete. Is there anything that you and Ellen need? FlatheadGeo in SI, NY.

We are fine. But Ellen and I are on different times zones right now :) She got up and went to work, I got up, went to work, could not do anything, no power, I went back to bed, woke up at noon, still no pwer, went back to sleep, woke up at 2:15, went to physical therapy, came home then went and bought generator, now, I am not tired at all feel wie awake, and probably will go to sleep around 2.

By the morning we will be on same time zone.

Make sure you hook up that generator right. . . you don't need any insurance company declairing that you was trying to burn down the house too.

When you are done with that generator ship it to Florida, I think we will need it down here this year! But watch what address you send it to, I think some Yellow Coward Ass is going to turn and run for the hills in another state.

Calm down, Bill. We have low-scale twisters (F1-F2) almost every time a storm front comes through this time of year. The last one (Monday) took the roof off a country school gymnasium, ripped down power lines and trees and dumped a foot of rain in a small section of the county. It didn't even receive mention on any of the local stations or newspapers. It's only a big deal if you happen to be the property owner that was hit (or the insurance company that had it covered).

Izzat what you call a "yawner?"

JT

Loy Daniel wrote:

Hey, I am calm, maybe too calm. I did not know it happened until every fire truck and police car started running past my house.

I am at the end of the block, and my office has three large windows facng west, and one small window facing north. On the north side of the office that window's view of any light is blocked by another house that over the last 26 years has grown so large that it has no backyard, and no side property, and extends almost out to the street. Because of that any noise or view is totally blocked/shielded from me. People on the block on the otherside of this guys house heard it pass by, in fact my dog who can descern by sound when Ellen's car is halfway down the street, did not react or get excited.

It was when it was over, and the emergency vehicles started to rumble thru that got him excited.

You might have them weekly, but, we have never had one here in the county since they started recording weather. So while it might be common to others, it was a phenomenon to us.

Now, all I need is help n getting it out of SUV.

BG

I remember in the mid 1980's when three tornadoes occurred in RI within two days of each other. Well, one was a massive waterspout on the upper Narraganssett Bay...

JT

Bill Glass wrote:

march or april, we had 'seen' in 1 night 119 tornados in my state.. one was on the ground for 40-50 miles and by the looks of the damage path, was about a half mile wide at times.. --Shiva--

Very true. When that one in Edmonton hit in 1987, there was no real warning of its coming, and none of the mobile home parks here have fallout shelters for a tornado. If I remember right, there were 31 deaths; most of which occured in the Evergreen trailer park. As a side note, not long after it happened, many Oklahomans labeled us Albertans as 'daring' or 'stupid' depending upon who's point of view. They had never seen so many clear, close up photos of an F-4 tornado before!!

Craig.