Yikes! Mid-West Windstorms!

[3113]

Apparently windstorms blew through the midwest today and are moving up to Ontario tomorrow!

Everyone safe? Anyone blown away? How about just blown?

 

[THROBBS]

They lied.*
TORNADO WATCH!!!
HIGH WIND ADVISORY!!

meh.

*about this area.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

Chicago winds are awful. Managed to put all the storm windows down but one. Wind was too bad. Anyway...really shitty out here today.

 

[JackLuis]

I just read about it and sure wish the weather Radar sites have a loop of it.

Very scary, I had my porch roof blown away last winter.

 

[Trinique_Fire]

According to my mother, trucks were jack knifing off the Dan Ryan. Don't know if that's actually true, but seems probable.

 

[EmeraldKitten]

High winds... ehh. Sorta.
Rain? Lots of it!
Tornado watches? Had one.
Tornado warnings? YES!!! For a freaking half hour!
Do ya know how nervous it makes you to be cutting someones hair while the tornado siren is wailing literally a block away?
But nothing happened. Thank goodness.

 

[carsonshepherd]

The shaking of the house woke me up. If we did have a tornado, we'd never know it since there's no siren out in the little hippietown where I live. Knocked over all the outside plants, then blew off and it was a beautiful fall day.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Just some nice breezes here, current temp 82 F, humidity 56%. A pleasant evening. It did rain a little last night or early this morning.

Oh, yeah, Houston, Tx.

 

[_Lynn_]

Extreme winds, tornado warnings a few miles away, some power outages, blowing sand at the beach closing roads . . .

I spent the day doing homework.

 

[Boota]

We had a tornado touch down somewhere in the county today, but I didn't notice. It didn't seem all that bad where I was.

 

[amicus]

Weather in the US moves from West to East...I have children and grandchildren on the Oregon Coast and they were under hurricane warning winds of over 75mph and surf on the ocean beaches of over 35 feet.

I did my usual 'dad' thing and warned them all and suggested candles because the power goes out several times during the winter storm season on the Pacific Coast.

Friends in Colorado got it next with the first blizzard of the year and I read it went up into the Dakota's before smacking the Chicago area.

Saw several clips on damage done in several States, hope y'all got through it safe...


Ami

 

[TheGatekeeper953]

Southern Indiana. Tree limbs down all over. Half of the town was without power from 8 AM to 11 AM, the rest didn't get their power back till 4 PM.

Being somebody that works the evening shift I did what seemed practical, I slept though it.

 

[SlickTony]

Is it true that there was snow and tornadoes? I know tornadoes are preceded by hail, but snow along with them? That just seems wrong.

 

[TE999]

Is it true that there was snow and tornadoes? I know tornadoes are preceded by hail, but snow along with them? That just seems wrong.

I've experienced that, plus thunder and lightning, when I lived in Atlanta, GA. Ever seen green tinted snowflakes? It's totally weird.

I hope everyone's ok.

 

[Katyusha]

Apparently windstorms blew through the midwest today and are moving up to Ontario tomorrow!

Everyone safe? Anyone blown away? How about just blown?

I had trouble getting to work on Tuesday because of all the downed branches and power lines, and Wednesday and Thursday were just miserable with the wind whistling through every crack and crevice it could find at my office, but we had no major damage at my house. So I'd say we're just blown.

 

[Katyusha]

double post

 

[SlickTony]

I've experienced that, plus thunder and lightning, when I lived in Atlanta, GA. Ever seen green tinted snowflakes? It's totally weird.

I hope everyone's ok.

Totally agree.

As of now, I would appreciate precipitation of any kind. We've hardly had more than a sprinkle in over a month.

 

[Loring2]

As a former USAF pilot I've seen several tornadoes at various stages of their development. My only comment is, 'scary and beyond that frightening'.

Get and stay as far away from them as possible as quickly as possible.

 

[Handley_Page]

Weather in the US moves from West to East...I have children and grandchildren on the Oregon Coast and they were under hurricane warning winds of over 75mph and surf on the ocean beaches of over 35 feet.

Ami

Colour me thoroughly confused. On the scales used in the UK, 75mph is a (mere) Gale (Storm Force 12), so what's the difference between them, or is it the nature of the beast's origin ?

Round where I live, every winter we get winds of 75mph gusting somewhat higher at times. The roof might loose a slate or a badly-maintained chimney fall down, maybe even the odd tree gets uprooted (mostly, I suspect, because of the buildings making the wind move in strange ways).

In the UK, Tornadoes (the last one in Birmingham), have been know to tear houses apart and generally devastate the area, but obviously not on the scale of 'Tornado Alley'. We did once have one that ripped most of the trees off at about ten feet off the ground, particularly down in the south-east (ask Ogg). A hundred miles of so away, a great deal of damage was done to the land; but not so much to the houses.

Do I take it that houses over there are not built to withstand a certain degree of wind velocity ?

 

[trysail]

Colour me thoroughly confused. On the scales used in the UK, 75mph is a (mere) Gale (Storm Force 12), so what's the difference between them, or is it the nature of the beast's origin ?

Round where I live, every winter we get winds of 75mph gusting somewhat higher at times. The roof might loose a slate or a badly-maintained chimney fall down, maybe even the odd tree gets uprooted (mostly, I suspect, because of the buildings making the wind move in strange ways).

In the UK, Tornadoes (the last one in Birmingham), have been know to tear houses apart and generally devastate the area, but obviously not on the scale of 'Tornado Alley'. We did once have one that ripped most of the trees off at about ten feet off the ground, particularly down in the south-east (ask Ogg). A hundred miles of so away, a great deal of damage was done to the land; but not so much to the houses.

Do I take it that houses over there are not built to withstand a certain degree of wind velocity ?

Where in hell are you— the damn Outer Hebrides? The Orkneys? Shetland? St. Kilda?

In the United States, winds of force 6 or 7 result in the issuance of a small craft advisory, with force 8 or 9 winds bringing about a gale warning, force 10 or 11 a storm warning ("a tropical storm warning" being issued instead of the latter two if the winds relate to a tropical cyclone), and force 12 a hurricane force wind warning (or hurricane warning if related to a tropical cyclone).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale

 

[Handley_Page]

Where in hell are you— the damn Outer Hebrides? The Orkneys? Shetland? St. Kilda?

No; in the lee of the Welsh Hills. Every winter we get some serious wind.

The damage was fascinating to see, actually. A 300 year-old Oak tree ripped sideways, but the house a hundred feet away untouched. Vast acres of woodland, all cut off about ten feet off the deck like God had used His 'Strimmer.