The number one reason why I have a TV

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:30 pm

Don't ya love it? First thing in the morning...you turn on the boob tube and...

Discover your whole county is under a tornado watch, and your particular itty-bitty corner of a beach town is under a warning. With a potential twister at the tail of the storm basically walking up the front drive.

(C.C. Texas. All you really need to know)

And because my city had a tornado trash the local college a year ago...first one in seventy years...this is why I have a television. So I can find out what the heck is going on BEFORE the weather explodes the transformer across the street.

Gah, I almost hate the weather.

CW

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:42 pm

No offense, but I hope a twister does blow the transformer across the street from you. I work at (not for) the country's largest transformer construction company, and we could use the business.

In fact, if you'd like to shoot some transformers with high powered rifles, I think I can get you in on the plant's monthly bonus list...

Thingschange · Post by **Thingschange** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 1:44 pm

Just remember to bring some lunch with you when you're repairing the transformer this time

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:15 pm

I half expected this thread to be about porn, but then I realized who created it.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:22 pm

The worst thing ever about tornado warnings is not hearing that there's one that's been sighted in your county. It's that one was sighted crossing a road that's less than five minutes from your house. True story. "Featherstone Road, hey that's oh crap".

Nothing bad happened, though.

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:26 pm

*has no tornados in California. Which rocks. Hates the idea of them. We have earthquakes, but they happen maybe twice a year. And when they do happen, they're seldom more than just slight jiggles*

So yeah. No tornado warnings here. ^_^

Thingschange · Post by **Thingschange** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:32 pm

Adelaide's boredom field is too powerful for anything interesting to penetrate. Tornados, typhoon, tidal waves... anything else beginning in T just seems to bounce off. Bloody "Mediterranean" climate.

Oh yeah, for the Americans:

Adelaide is in Australia. Australia is that big island with lots of wheat way way south of China. China is that country on the arse end of Europe. Europe is the land-mass your great great ancestors ran away from. Clear now?

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:39 pm

Don't be silly. We Americans know where Australia is. That's where Kangaroos come from.

And people that host nature shows about wrestling with dangerous animals and yelling "Crikey!" a lot.

See? We're educated...

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:44 pm

Hey, at least England wanted our country. They saw yours as a barren wasteland to ship off the degenerates.

Mercury Hat, proudly disrupting foreign relations for years to come.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:54 pm

I live in the Pacific North West, home to mountains and earthquakes, and host to the Mt. St. Helens eruption however many years ago. And though we've had several small tremors in my lifetime (usually shockwaves from quakes in Japan), I haven't felt a single one of them.

I'm missing out on the whole 'Natural Disaster' experience . . .

War · Post by **War** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:55 pm

'tis true, 'tis true.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:56 pm

Same here, actually, I've never had to "head fer the root cellar maw a twister's a'comin'" and other than tornados, there's nothing else that happens on the East Coast. Except for snow and ice storms but since my place is right near the Chesapeake Bay, we don't even get much of that.

Squarewheel · Post by **Squarewheel** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:03 pm

I've "hid" from about 5 tornados in my entire life.......and Ide rather get sucked up and killed in 5 mins or so than be crushed by an earth quake, frozen by an ice storm, or get murdered by the high crime rate. But I think ive only come to terms with one natural disaster and therefoer come up with reasons not to want to be other places...

LAGtheNoggin · Post by **LAGtheNoggin** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:05 pm

We occasionaly get flood warnings. Stupid Thames.

Once had to move everything up stairs and sandbag the front door but other than that I've yet to stand in a meter of muck on my front door before my sister gets back from a night out. Which is nice.

Okie · Post by **Okie** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:30 pm

It was spring 1999, I was attending college at the University of Oklahoma. I was on my way with my girlfriend to eat dinner at the student union on the way to an end of the year screening of one of my film classes.

We noticed the alarm, and followed everyone else into a lower area where we watched an F5 <a href="http://www.newsok.com/?w_may3">tornado</a> 10 miles away. They said it was a mile wide at one point. It walked across Moore. We didn't know if it would continue east "to us" or northeast to Oklahoma City.

It chose Oklahoma City, and Del City... it also hit Shawnee, Newcastle, Midwest City, Dover, and 50 miles later it hit Stroud. It was on the ground for hours crossing back and forth over the Turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Trees and signs along the road were torn up. Everytime I'd drive back and forth to college for a year I'd see the trail of devastation. A strip going through neighborhood homes and apartment buildings in OKC was completely leveled.

The funny thing is, there was a bigger tornado on the ground at the same time, but it didn't hit any towns or kill anyone. There were more than a dozen tornadoes that night.

We also get Grassfires, Ice Storms, Flash Floods, Lightning Storms. Our earthquakes are only 2.0 on the richter scale.

"It certainly looks like a huge battle has taken place ... There are entire neighborhoods to the south of me that are no longer there."-- Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating

I've "hid" from about 5 tornados in my entire life.......and Ide rather get sucked up and killed in 5 mins or so

During a tornado in Ponca City, a man and his wife were carried aloft in their house by a tornado. The walls and roof were blown away. But the floor remained intact and eventually glided downward, setting the couple safely back on the ground.

Squarewheel · Post by **Squarewheel** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:35 pm

Okie wrote: Our earthquakes are only 2.0 on the richter scale.

But they will hit 3 or so every 200=300 years or so

and i rember that one too made history books for sure

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:50 pm

Blizerd of '96, Huricane Floyd, thats about it. Most natual disasters tend to avoid New Jersey. Can you blame them? I mean, you'd barely be able to tell if one hit anyway.

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:07 pm

Hurricanes?

Don't mention those.

I feel like I'm sitting in a shooting gallery every year. We had the remnants of one blow through here about a year and a half ago. That one spawned a twister...went through a couple of neighborhoods, tore up the satelight campus of one of the colleges here, knocked a brick wall down on one of the teachers (he died.)

Funny thing was, the year after, that was where I got my GED. My teacher happened to have been taking his class to the lybrary for a research report that day...probably saved his life and the lives of the rest of his class, because the first thing the tornado took out were the portable classrooms the GED classes are housed in (everyone else had gone home)

But here he is in the lybrary, listening to the portables get slammed around, and the skylight in the lybrary blows and he can look up into the twister and watch the broken glass go around and around the room...

The most ironic thing is, we have all these refineries in the area, we have a city of several hundred thousand (not Houston, but not your American Dream small town, either), and nobody set off any sirens. Nobody in the city had any warnings after the weatherman's announcements...and most people blow those off anyway.

And I know we had SOMETHING blow through my neighborhood the night before, because it knocked down trees, wrecked our pool and it DID blow the transformer...as well as the one down the street, one three streets over, and probably every one in the neighborhood as well.

By the way, those things burn very well.

CW

Thingschange · Post by **Thingschange** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 5:01 pm

Mercury_Hat wrote:Hey, at least England wanted our country.

These are the same people who eat blood sausage, bread pudding and haggis (not necessarily all at once). I don't think we can trust their opinion.

*Michael, demonstrating an equal talent for disrupting national relations*

RLC Davidson · Post by **RLC Davidson** » Tue Apr 06, 2004 5:41 pm

Mercury_Hat wrote:Same here, actually, I've never had to "head fer the root cellar maw a twister's a'comin'" and other than tornados, there's nothing else that happens on the East Coast. Except for snow and ice storms but since my place is right near the Chesapeake Bay, we don't even get much of that.

Aren't you forgetting Hurricane Isabella? Knocked the power out for a few days (at least where I live, about ten miles SE of DC) and flooded everywhere along the coast. Ugh. We get some neat looking lightning storms at times, too.