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Tornadoes!
2008-03-31, 1:05 AM #1
I'm in the path of a multiple-tornado producing storm system which is a few minutes away. It's pretty hardcore here, first time I've been in it in a while. Oklahoma State University is about to get hit pretty hard it seems, though. Hopefully not as bad as some of the towns that have gotten some in the last few hours.

Edit: here comes the penny-sized hail
Warhead[97]
2008-03-31, 5:15 AM #2
Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen!

Oh wait, wrong film.

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2008-03-31, 5:17 AM #3
I say get on your bike and ride directly into a tornado to see what happens.
nope.
2008-03-31, 5:19 AM #4
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2008-03-31, 7:04 AM #5
Originally posted by Baconfish:
get on your bike and ride


BICYCLE BICYCLE
gbk is 50 probably

MB IS FAT
2008-03-31, 11:17 AM #6
Ha, ha! Never Tulsa.
2008-03-31, 12:13 PM #7
It would be so awesome being sucked up into a tornado.
2008-03-31, 1:03 PM #8
Well, unfortunately we usually only get storms after dark around here, so pictures are hard to get. (As are reliable reports on what is actually happening on the ground)

The storms split and went north by a few miles and south by a few miles, and we barely even got any rain or hail. It was like we were magically invincible. Everyone else wasn't so lucky.
Warhead[97]
2008-03-31, 1:16 PM #9
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
It would be so awesome being sucked up into a tornado.


Vin, you've seemed kind of suicidal lately. Maybe you should talk to someone about it.
Looks like we're not going down after all, so nevermind.
2008-03-31, 1:19 PM #10
Emergency sirens going off here in Missouri because of tornado warnings right now
2008-03-31, 1:25 PM #11
Yeah, looks like most of missouri is under tornado watches, and that line shows some strength and organization. Maybe even rotation in some spots, though it's hard to tell in a line like that.

I guess this is the beginning of the season.
Warhead[97]
2008-03-31, 1:44 PM #12
Originally posted by Krokodile:
Vin, you've seemed kind of suicidal lately. Maybe you should talk to someone about it.


I'm not suicidal, I just don't want to be alive.

Tornado would be an awesome way to go.
2008-03-31, 3:31 PM #13
i agree with vin.
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2008-03-31, 5:06 PM #14
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
Yeah, looks like most of missouri is under tornado watches, and that line shows some strength and organization. Maybe even rotation in some spots, though it's hard to tell in a line like that.

I guess this is the beginning of the season.


Our season (in Arkansas) started a few weeks ago.

That storm is about 5 minutes from here...
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2008-03-31, 5:49 PM #15
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
I'm not suicidal, I just don't want to be alive.

Tornado would be an awesome way to go.


It'd be awesome until you realise that tornadoes result in you going to hell.

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nope.
2008-03-31, 6:04 PM #16
If we ever have a storm come through in the daytime, or at night when I don't have stuff to do, I'll try to get you guys some cool pictures. I'm no photographer but sometimes the subject matter is more impressive than the skill of the one capturing it.
Warhead[97]
2008-04-01, 3:11 PM #17
Bah. It wasn't bad here. Just more flooding that we didn't need.
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2008-04-01, 5:12 PM #18
So, anyone have severe weather photos near you? I found this one on youtube, it's about as close as you can get. He says it's crossing hudson lake (this is a tiny lake) and I live on on of the hills looking over hudson lake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLTomlDQOaM

(i am going to try to confirm if this is a tornado later, you can't tell if it truly touches down with this crappy video)
Warhead[97]
2008-04-02, 6:32 AM #19
Whats the big deal? I know OK gets just as much crap a** scary weather as we do down here in Texas... Bad storms are a good thing, its when its oddly calm, and that wierd grey-green color that you know some bad s*** is about to happen.
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2008-04-02, 7:25 AM #20
I'm not sure i understand what you mean by "what's the big deal".

If you're referring to hail, high wind and tornadoes, I'd say generally the concerns are golf balls falling from the sky and smashing windows, denting cars, wind knocking over power lines, blowing away roofs, tossing cars around, and tornadoes shredding your house and scattering it over a square mile.

That's not even mentioning lightning.
Warhead[97]
2008-04-02, 8:15 AM #21
Hail sucks, but its not scary... just don't go outside. Cars can be fixed as can anything on your house, thats what insurance is for. Tornadoes are scary, but everything else is pretty standard to most storms.

I actually contemplated being a storm chaser at one time, I love chasing them down taking pictures and seeing how it changes in nature. Unfortunately they don't get much (if any) compensation for the job.
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2008-04-02, 9:04 AM #22
Oh, well...yeah, storms don't scare me. I just understand how they work and I have seen what they can do, so I respect them. That's why I went to some basic training stuff to know what to look for.
Warhead[97]
2008-04-02, 9:49 AM #23
What is it about lightning in America that makes it so scary that you guys pay it much attention? I've heard Americans pay it a lot more respect than it gets here.

No one here will pay much attention when lightning's striking unless they're the tallest thing around for a good distance (eg, walking out on a wide field) or if they're carrying metal (golfers get the heck off the green when a storm comes in). The rest of the time, it's a heck of a lot more likely to just hit a nearby tree or building instead.
I've only once even paid lightning much mind and that was because I was sitting in a kayak a couple hundred metres off the coast D:
2008-04-02, 10:46 AM #24
I don't know why it would be taken more seriously here, but I can tell you some fact-type things and make a guess. It may be due to the fact that there are generally more people living in the middle of nowhere (away from tall things) in the US, or maybe we just worry more in general, I don't know. But, the fact is that while big scary things like tornadoes and hurricanes (with the exception of Katrina) cause a lot of damage and property loss, lightning is usually up at the top of the list, or at least near the top, as far as fatalities. Sometimes individual events like katrina, or a major heat wave or something, raise the stats for that year, but lightning is pretty reliable.

Oh, I should add that no one really pays any attention to lightning around here, either. It's the same as you described. That's probably exactly why it kills so many.
Warhead[97]
2008-04-02, 11:12 AM #25
I think people pay it more attention here because people here are stupid. Anyone see the soccer(?) video where it strikes the field and several of the guys go down? Numerous other accounts. It IS RARE, but so is most other things people are afraid of.
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2008-04-02, 11:36 AM #26
Lightning is loud and scary, but at least it doesn't look like some kind of world boss from WoW.
2008-04-02, 11:48 AM #27
I don't know what that means.
Warhead[97]
2008-04-02, 12:14 PM #28
World Boss's are big giant bosses that take massive numbers of people to take down.
2008-04-02, 12:37 PM #29
Would have been less nerdy to say "At least lightening doesn't look like a Colossi(plural?) from Shadow of the Colossus"
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2008-04-02, 12:54 PM #30
Or 'At least lightning doesn't look like mb's fat ***"
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2008-04-02, 1:13 PM #31
I've never even seen lightning strike anything before.

:/

Well, apart from a power transformer once, but I couldn't see much after that.

:P
nope.
2008-04-02, 1:22 PM #32
I was sitting in my living room when lightning blew up my chimney.

I was only like maybe 2. But I'll never forget how epic that was.
2008-04-02, 1:57 PM #33
The noise is incredible. I, too, have never directly seen lightning strike something closeby, but the closest I ever came was driving home in a storm in the middle of the day, lightning struck within a mile of me. I saw the bolt out of the corner of my eye out in the field, and the sound and shockwave hit me simultaneously with the flash. It was awesome.
Warhead[97]
2008-04-03, 9:59 PM #34
well, I work at the Twister Attraction at Universal Studios, so I am a pro at what to do if there is a tornado in the area.... Make sure you move all the way down to the end of your row and fill in all the available space!!
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2008-04-04, 1:22 PM #35
Ugh, we're under a Tornado Watch and a Severe Thunderstorm Warning here in Atlanta this evening.
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2008-04-04, 1:47 PM #36
A tornado hitting Atlanta would actually make Atlanta more interesting.
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2008-04-04, 3:16 PM #37
*Cough*
"Flowers and a landscape were the only attractions here. And so, as there was no good reason for coming, nobody came."
2008-04-04, 8:21 PM #38
Vibes to anyone experiencing severe weather right now.

My parents got zapped by lightning during a family camping trip. They were trying to get this pool of water out pf adjust the foldout awning thing on the side of my grandpa's motor home. The rain wasn't running off of it and it was collecting in the middle of the canvas and the awning looked like a full bladder ready to burst. So they wanted to get that water out of that awning as soon as possible. It was still storming. Dad was holding on the aluminum support on one side and Mom moved the metal support down her side of the awning. She instantly got drenched with the cold water that was pooled up in the awning. Before she was finished screaming...KABOOM! It wasn't a direct hit but the the electricity must have flowed through some of the water they were standing in.

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