It's been an exciting weekend...EF3 tornado decides to waltz through town and what a dance it was...

[timbo]

Tornado tosses debris into air in Missouri | Latest Weather Clips | FOX Weather

Pieces of debris are seen flying through the air as a tornado tears across the landscape near Mountain View, Missouri, on Sunday.

www.foxweather.com

Crazy stuff. The video in this report was taken about a half mile from my place...I've been out since Sunday until late last night volunteering my chainsaw to clear trees on roads around here. Some houses were obliterated or with severe damage and I had no power or internet until a few minutes ago. Most of the weather channels are saying one tornado but I talked with some folks that know there were three tornadoes that touched down here. One tornado came within a 1/4 miles of our house. We weren't even at home at the time so when I saw the reports, I raced home to make sure we were good. Others, not so much. Fortunately, as far as I know, there were no human fatalities and because of how spread out we are here, most damage was to trees, power lines and some cattle lost.

 

[WanMan99]

Time for a tornado bunker install.... Nice work helping out the community.

 

[timbo]

Time for a tornado bunker install.... Nice work helping out the community.

It's what we do here. Small town, very small fire department and road crew. The state showed up last night about the time we were finishing up getting the roads cleared...of course . They actually had quite a job themselves as we weren't the only community hit with high winds/tornadoes/trees down. My wife and I were at one of the schools about 7 miles from where we live (she is the district food services manager for four schools) and our weather alerts kept going off. I stepped outside to look at the weather and I saw rotational clouds and knew it was an uh-oh moment, especially when I saw home insulation floating and being blown around by the wind. The school is quite a ways out of town so that insulation had to have come from buildings several miles away.

Also, our next door neighbor has a bunker we can use. I looked into the cost of one when I moved here but they are not cheap...about 10K dollars to buy and install in the ground. I'll drive the 1/2 mile to our neighbors place if I need to.

One of the guys on the crew I was working on said this is the first tornado that's gone through this town in over 100 years...just my luck.

 

[pdm]

It's what we do here. Small town, very small fire department and road crew. The state showed up last night about the time we were finishing up getting the roads cleared...of course . They actually had quite a job themselves as we weren't the only community hit with high winds/tornadoes/trees down. My wife and I were at one of the schools about 7 miles from where we live (she is the district food services manager for four schools) and our weather alerts kept going off. I stepped outside to look at the weather and I saw rotational clouds and knew it was an uh-oh moment, especially when I saw home insulation floating and being blown around by the wind. The school is quite a ways out of town so that insulation had to have come from buildings several miles away.

Also, our next door neighbor has a bunker we can use. I looked into the cost of one when I moved here but they are not cheap...about 10K dollars to buy and install in the ground. I'll drive the 1/2 mile to our neighbors place if I need to.

One of the guys on the crew I was working on said this is the first tornado that's gone through this town in over 100 years...just my luck.

Now you're all set for the next hundy years. There's always a bright side.

 

[timbo]

Now you're all set for the next hundy years. There's always a bright side.

I guess that's one way of looking at it .

We all know how that rolls though...How many "once in a lifetime" storms have we experienced in New England?

 

[pdm]

I guess that's one way of looking at it .

We all know how that rolls though...How many "once in a lifetime" storms have we experienced in New England?

Well, it does feel as if I've lived here a couple of lifetimes on occasion, so...

 

[weekendracer]

Now you're all set for the next hundy years. There's always a bright side.

I guess that's one way of looking at it .

We all know how that rolls though...How many "once in a lifetime" storms have we experienced in New England?

 

[jkelly1229]

Glad you're okay OP.

Did you see any flying cows though?

 

[timbo]

Glad you're okay OP.

Did you see any flying cows though?

No, but saw a dead one and an injured one that a tree fell on (why do cows head for a tree during a thunderstorm...or any other storm for that matter?). The owner of the cow "dispatched" the injured one. He said the both of them would be in a freezer in the next day or two.

 

[dingbat]

Also, our next door neighbor has a bunker we can use. I looked into the cost of one when I moved here but they are not cheap...about 10K dollars to buy and install in the ground. I'll drive the 1/2 mile to our neighbors place if I need to.

I heard that if you stand in the yard and start spinning in a counter-clockwise direction, it doesn’t hurt as much when the tornado hits you.

Glad you came out alright! Now that power is coming back on please take extra time to look for power lines, downed or otherwise, when running your saw. Would suck for something bad to happen to you when you’re out doing good for others!

 

[Mountain]

Tornado tosses debris into air in Missouri | Latest Weather Clips | FOX Weather

Pieces of debris are seen flying through the air as a tornado tears across the landscape near Mountain View, Missouri, on Sunday.

www.foxweather.com

Crazy stuff. The video in this report was taken about a half mile from my place...I've been out since Sunday until late last night volunteering my chainsaw to clear trees on roads around here. Some houses were obliterated or with severe damage and I had no power or internet until a few minutes ago. Most of the weather channels are saying one tornado but I talked with some folks that know there were three tornadoes that touched down here. One tornado came within a 1/4 miles of our house. We weren't even at home at the time so when I saw the reports, I raced home to make sure we were good. Others, not so much. Fortunately, as far as I know, there were no human fatalities and because of how spread out we are here, most damage was to trees, power lines and some cattle lost.

Glad you and yours are OK. Those are no joke.

LOL my mother is in St. Charles County MO and this weekend was complaining about the weather warnings that were interrupting the Indy 500.

 

[yogi]

Glad you are ok. Is 40 the right caliber for ?

 

[KBCraig]

Tornado tosses debris into air in Missouri | Latest Weather Clips | FOX Weather

Pieces of debris are seen flying through the air as a tornado tears across the landscape near Mountain View, Missouri, on Sunday.

www.foxweather.com

Crazy stuff. The video in this report was taken about a half mile from my place...I've been out since Sunday until late last night volunteering my chainsaw to clear trees on roads around here. Some houses were obliterated or with severe damage and I had no power or internet until a few minutes ago. Most of the weather channels are saying one tornado but I talked with some folks that know there were three tornadoes that touched down here. One tornado came within a 1/4 miles of our house. We weren't even at home at the time so when I saw the reports, I raced home to make sure we were good. Others, not so much. Fortunately, as far as I know, there were no human fatalities and because of how spread out we are here, most damage was to trees, power lines and some cattle lost.

This is why I don't mind shoveling snow.

Eight dead in Arkansas (where I grew up) from this outbreak. That green sky gives me flashbacks. No thank you.

 

[TBK]

Glad you're ok. completely agree with small town neighbors helping neighbors-for anything.

We did not get a tornado here in central Alabama but the lightning and hail was something else. Our insurance adjuster said the official weather report indicated 3.25in hail here. We went to the basement when we saw golf ball sized hail since tornadoes often follow big hail I was monitoring conditions via my weather station when oops, no more wind. The hail took out my anemometer. Repair estimate is at $65k and climbing. Compared to what hapened north of us, we were lucky.

PS-We had more close calls with tornados/derechos in central MA than we have had in Alabama. Weather is weather. Prepare the best you can and carry enough insurance.

 

[greencobra]

now, mr. timbo, did someone pay you to move into the middle of tornado alley...or was that voluntary? asking for a friend.

 

[timbo]

The field in the foreground is right behind my house, my neighbor's field and attendant cattle is behind mine (on the other side of that large oak tree). He took the picture standing in my field. He had driven down to warn us and we weren't home. At the time this was taken, my wife and I were about 5 miles on the other side of that tornado. It got within approximately 1/4 mile of our houses.

 

[timbo]

now, mr. timbo, did someone pay you to move into the middle of tornado alley...or was that voluntary? asking for a friend.

Nope, no one paid me, LOL...I'll deal with an occasional tornado than shovel feet of snow (every week it seemed the past few years I lived in NH)...no salt rot on vehicles, deal with half/no brained karens and left winged soccer moms and I have room to spread out. Here I can ride my motorcycle eight (or more) months out of the year...in NH, I was lucky to get five months of riding.

 

[timbo]

This is why I don't mind shoveling snow.

Eight dead in Arkansas (where I grew up) from this outbreak. That green sky gives me flashbacks. No thank you.

100+ people died in this storm...

Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Almost every snow storm of any magnitude that hits New England ends up with multiple deaths...and who knows how many die shoveling that shit...I know of four that died while I was in High School (fathers of kids I went to school with).

 

[ReggieB9mm]

Glad you’re good! So any good deals on real estate there now?