Yikes! Killer Storms in the MidWest!

[3113]

Everyone Okay in these states?

INDIANAPOLIS - Wicked weekend storms pounded the country from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded communities, spawning tornadoes that tore up houses and killing at least eight people. Rescuers in boats continued to pluck people from rising waters in Indiana on Sunday, a day after more than 10 inches of rain deluged much of the state. In Iowa, pumps and thousands of sandbags were sent to the Iowa City area, where officials fear a reservoir could top a spillway and flood the city of about 63,000 by Tuesday....

Other states affected were Michigan, Omaha, Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Connecticut not only with storms and flooding, but tornados.

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Crews asked about 1,500 people to leave the towns of Elnora and Plainville, about 100 miles southwest of Indianapolis, because of flooding along the White River. In Morgan County, southwest of Indianapolis, about 150 residents were taken out of a flooded nursing home....The National Weather Service warned that another round of storms could drop as much as 3 inches of rain on Indiana late Monday.

Gov. Mitch Daniels said many of the flood victims told him how quickly floodwaters rose, catching them off guard. "This thing came on fast with such a radical deluge of water that people were describing going from a feeling of security to waist-deep water in a matter or 15 or 20 minutes," he said Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of customers lacked power across the region, more than 300,000 in Michigan alone.

Residents of Chicago's northern and southern suburbs spent Sunday cleaning up from at least seven tornadoes the night before. The storms tore roofs off homes, toppled power lines and overturned tractor-trailers. Several minor injuries were reported, and stretches of Interstate 57 remained closed for a second day Sunday because of downed power lines.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

My personal storm saga is posted is posted in mood, here: http://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=27526553&postcount=77401

 

[Darkniciad]

Yep, nothing like living in a fish-bowl for the last several days. Lightning kept frying the computers at work, too. Stuck us working Saturday, and all kinds of screwed up hours. Tornadoes, straight-line winds, hail, torrential downpours, massive lightning clusters...

It's been an interesting few days.

 

[Guest]

Yep, nothing like living in a fish-bowl for the last several days. Lightning kept frying the computers at work, too. Stuck us working Saturday, and all kinds of screwed up hours. Tornadoes, straight-line winds, hail, torrential downpours, massive lightning clusters...

It's been an interesting few days.

It's crazy.

We've had constant rain/lightning/tornado watches and warnings/flash flood for the past week and a half. And another week of this is predicted.

We're safe, yes. We're in no danger of flooding and we haven't lost power yet.

But.

It's summer and our kids are going stir crazy being stuck inside.

 

[Darkniciad]

I'm in a spot where the water maxxed out at about six or seven inches deep in the back yard and a couple of fast-flowing inches running through the alley out front. One of the guys at work had to hike through a flooded field in hip-waders to a barn on a rise to repair, plate, and insure a field-hopping beater because the 20 ft. deep, 20 ft. wide creek down from his house no longer had a bridge when he woke up Tuesday morning. He's still delivering supplies to the family via inflateable raft and little red wagon.

The thing that really pisses me off is that they closed a section of road off a year or so ago to alleviate a flooding problem. It was supposed to be closed for six days. It was closed for six months.

Once they finally opened it back up again, cutting ten minutes off my daily commute, you couldn't tell they did a bloody thing! It took them six months to raise the road about two inches over less than a mile stretch.

The first time it really rains hard, there's a river there and the bloody road is closed again. Who knows how many dollars and six months down the crapper.

Idiots.

I'm in sort of a weather-hole here. Must be something about the lay of the land. I can watch the live radar, see angry red and purple fronts barreling east, and then it starts breaking up at about the state line. A few miles east of us, the signature picks right back up again. Stretches a few miles north and a few miles south. We still get nasty weather, but its nothing like what's happening five minutes away at any given time.

Would have ticked me off once. I love nasty weather. Now I have a son, and all I do is worry about him too much to enjoy nature's fury

 

[Guest]

I understand completely.

All our energies focus on our kids.

We've turned thunderstorm/tornado watches into parties and thunderstorm/tornado warnings into adventures.

They're happening too damn much right now for our comfort, though.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

And they're clear up in Toronto! Even Rob isn't safe.

 

[S-Des]

Residents of Chicago's northern and southern suburbs spent Sunday cleaning up from at least seven tornadoes the night before. The storms tore roofs off homes, toppled power lines and overturned tractor-trailers. Several minor injuries were reported, and stretches of Interstate 57 remained closed for a second day Sunday because of downed power lines.

This is right where I live. I was home, but unaware of the tornadoes. I guess they weren't coming in our direction so the sirens didn't go off, but they closed 57 about 10 miles from my house.

 

[3113]

We could use that water here. Can't you find a way to divert a few of those storms over the Rockies?

 

[S-Des]

We could use that water here. Can't you find a way to divert a few of those storms over the Rockies?

It's raining again. This whole weekend has been storms. I'm not going to complain (unless it starts flooding), but I do wish there was a way to spread this around. Are we ever going to get a breakthrough in converting salt water to fresh? Geez, it's not like we'll ever run out of that.

 

[Daniellekitten]

We've got trees down, power has been in and out all weekend. I was driving home in it last night and had to take a detour because lightning hit a tree and it was down over the road. We are supposed to have more today, 60% chance of rain is what they are saying.

 

[rgraham666]

Was weird here last night.

In spite of the tornado warning the nasty weather lasted all of ten minutes. The rain wasn't even that bad and no real wind that I can recall.

It's going to be hot, muggy and sunny here today.

 

[DesertPirate]

Everyone be careful and I hope for the best