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Post by Scott on Aug 8, 2007 19:38:34 GMT -5
Hey Gene, I read a tornado whipped through Brooklyn today. Was it close to your neck of the woods?
Scott
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Post by geneweigel on Aug 8, 2007 20:20:13 GMT -5
Yeah, the dungeon flash flooded and I was flying down the stairs to make sure everything was off the floor. No casualties like the Maure Castle Dungeon Magazine that became waterlogged in the last dungeon flood.
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Post by grodog on Aug 9, 2007 10:19:00 GMT -5
Eeek. I'm glad to hear that all was well. Since I moved to KS in 1991, there have been several tornadoes reported in NJ and NY, and though all were small, we never had any there when I was growing up. Damn global warming....
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Post by Scott on Aug 9, 2007 16:03:45 GMT -5
Pittsburgh got hit by a tornado today. Came up the Ohio river and hit the science center here.
Scott
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Post by geneweigel on Aug 9, 2007 16:56:28 GMT -5
I got caught in a hurricane in Connecticut. I wasn't paying attention to the news much for weeks and was alone babysitting the dog while everyone else went on vacations. So I went for a long walk in the woods and if I didn't think the world was coming to an end well...the trees were bending and shit was flying everywhere. Critters were in panic mode. Then it was over or so I thought. The skies all cleared and it started again. I was like a wet rat by the time I got out of the hills and back to the house. The TV didn't work (they had bad signals as it was). So I tuned in to the radio and they said it was hurricane. I think it was in 1984 or so. When I went to Manhattan the next weekend driving down the Taconic Parkway about 30 miles away I saw that an entire forest was destroyed. Logs were splayed like dominoes. Another time when I went to the summer house in the Catskills I tented it out in the field while everybody else slept in the house. At around 530AM I woke to getting whacked in the face violently. It was the tent supports being blown so hard that they were getting laid flat back an forth. I felt worse than being in a drunken brawl. I ran to the house and lightning was everywhere then it stopped. Everybody woke up a few hours later and I'm saying "Hurricane! Tornado!". Some relative ( not "Mr Sky-Fi" * but one who has since passed on so I won't speak ill of the dead) woke up at 630AM , said it was beautiful sunrise and implied that I was full of shit. And the consensus kept repeating what he said after he left to go back home which really chapped my hide. I dug out the radio , put on the weather station and it said for all to hear that a tornado came through Lexington NY this morning. Boy, do I love to just stick ignorance right in the face!  *Speaking of "Mr Sky-Fi" rumors are that he may stop by this weekend up there. Barf! |
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Post by Scott on Aug 9, 2007 17:11:53 GMT -5
I can remember three tornados touching down in Pittsburgh, never close enough for me to see them in process.
Scott
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Post by GRWelsh on Aug 9, 2007 19:17:31 GMT -5
I heard there were three tornadoes spotted in the Pgh area today: one touched down in a river, another near Carnegie Mellon University, and I can't remember where the third was. I know there was a tornado warning in Fox Chapel, right next to the industrial park where I work, and people were instructed to find cover. We had flooding in the park -- twice -- so bad it looked like a pond. Some people tried to drive through it, and ruined their cars...
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Post by GT on Aug 11, 2007 8:29:45 GMT -5
I've been through two actual tornadoes (one in Monticello, IN in the infamous April 3 - 4, 1974 group, and one in Lafayette in the 90's.
then, while visiting my brother at Purdue in the 90s, we watched a funnel cloud pass over the campus--after it went by, somebody in the crowd yelled: "Wooooo!! Tornado kegger!!" ^__^
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