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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Estes on June 22, 2004, 10:39:01 PM
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Actually, several tornados.. However this was the closest to me, no damage.. It only stayed on the ground for a few minutes.
Not a great picture, but you can see where its at.
(http://r0013636.hostultra.com/images/tornado.jpg)
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Why isn't your wife in that picture?
We want to see a picture of your wife.
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Geez, ok here you go.. Last picture of the wife. :) This one is board appropriate.
(http://r0013636.hostultra.com/images/wife.jpg)
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Dang Estes, thats too close. I have seen several fairly close, including one near Vernon that ripped the asphault off the hiway! It was strange to see a big grain silo laying on it's side near the road with no farm for miles around.
I prefer to watch them on Discovery channel now.
Oh...hot wife!:aok
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lucky you
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I have a tornado in my pants.
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I grew up in Pampa Tx.. I've had some drop right in the backyard before.
That storm moved off SW, and we got some hellacious hail.
We had tennis ball size for a good five minutes.. Not alot of those though, thank god. Heres a picture of one, (Bad picture I know)
(http://r0013636.hostultra.com/images/hail%20001.jpg)
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Wow, I heard about that on the radio today. A hospital got nailed with "baseball sized" hail they said. Bunch of broken glass, patients injured, etc. And a car dealership was just plain ****ed :)
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Man,that thing was to fluff'n close.
I'm glad to know you and the wife are safe.
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Wow, that hail looks like the kind they got in Ft. Worth during Mayfest a couple years ago. Nasty!:eek:
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Wow, that hail looks like the kind they got in Ft. Worth during Mayfest a couple years ago.
What a fun day that was.
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Intertesting Posting/structural fastening on that composite fence system. Are those eight foot sections with 2-1/2" galvanized steel chain link posts? Are the brackets on the posts welded in place? If you are subject to high wind stress loads you may want to consider spacing those posts at four foot centers. Even if those posts are S-40 astm 120 or 53 at that spacing the maximum wind load those sections would bare is about 75 mph. If they were through bolted a good wind storm might only cause the fence to lay down. If not you would have a 48 sqft. frisbee creating lots of havoc. That fence would never meet the Florida Building Code guidelines which is rapidly becoming the paradigm for other States. If I lived in your house I would be concerned.
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I was just about to say that Storch.
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Oh! I thought you meant one of these (http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/andrewbrooks1/ll10.html).
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get a pair of these for the wife:
(http://www.wendygell.com/auctions/5/09-27-00.1/01060053.jpg)
and one of these outfits for you:
(http://act.arlington.ma.us/images/shows/wizard_of_oz/Wiz%20Tinman.gif)
could probably just modify your existing tinfoil hat setup you currently run around in :)
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Awesome pic, Estes! She's beautiful!
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So is your wife Estes.
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Glad all is ok!
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We can see who runs the remote in your family. ;)
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Estes-
In the future you should get out in the open when photographing tornados. You could then have posted some much better pictures of that twister:D
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Cool pic. 4/2/82 my home town had a F4 go through the middle of it.
Passed less than a half mile from my house.
I miss thunderstorms. Got a few decent ones in Arizona. As of last night I'm officially back in CA where all we get is smog for weather.
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LMAO at myself...
scrolled down to see the pic of the wife....
1024x768
all i see is a lovely behind, and forgetting i could scroll over to the right i thought thats all the pic of her you took.
LOL
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Heh I live in the middle of Tornado Alley... 12 miles North of Tulsa, Oklahoma. I've seen twisters to my left and right within a matter of 2-3 miles of each other. Tornado's are vicious and unpredictable. But when the hail stops and it seems to be calm for a few seconds..here comes that "Train" sound.
I still remember seeing Stroud, OK after an F5 ran it's course from OKC towards Tulsa just a few years ago. Nothing but devastation. Still today most of Stroud has not been rebuilt.
Never look a Tornado in the eye and say "HaaaaaR".
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Originally posted by AWMac
Heh I live in the middle of Tornado Alley... 12 miles North of Tulsa, Oklahoma. I've seen twisters to my left and right within a matter of 2-3 miles of each other. Tornado's are vicious and unpredictable. But when the hail stops and it seems to be calm for a few seconds..here comes that "Train" sound.
I still remember seeing Stroud, OK after an F5 ran it's course from OKC towards Tulsa just a few years ago. Nothing but devastation. Still today most of Stroud has not been rebuilt.
Never look a Tornado in the eye and say "HaaaaaR".
You an Okie? I was in Woodward in 92 when there were 14 or 15 tornados in one afternoon. I saw about 5 of them if I remember correctly. I remember 2 of them merged together and formed a large "M" shape. Damage was minimal..something like a grain elevator or a silo was taken out but not much else. Creepy thing is that it was the anniversary of a tornado that more or less decimated the town in 1947. I never did hear the train sound, but the closest one was still well over a mile away from my house.
Edit: trying to Google it now for some pics. Seems they were reported as "land spout" type tornados. Also looks like 7 is a more accurate number that were actually within the city area. Guess the others were somewhere nearby.
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Moved to Tulsa in Sep '95 after I retired from Military. Still love it here. Went Tornado chasin one time, never again!
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In that state, you don't have to chase them. They'll ring your doorbell and ask to borrow a cup of flour or something.
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Originally posted by VOR
You an Okie? I was in Woodward in 92 when there were 14 or 15 tornados in one afternoon. I saw about 5 of them if I remember correctly. I remember 2 of them merged together and formed a large "M" shape. Damage was minimal..something like a grain elevator or a silo was taken out but not much else. Creepy thing is that it was the anniversary of a tornado that more or less decimated the town in 1947. I never did hear the train sound, but the closest one was still well over a mile away from my house.
Edit: trying to Google it now for some pics. Seems they were reported as "land spout" type tornados. Also looks like 7 is a more accurate number that were actually within the city area. Guess the others were somewhere nearby.
That was my last year in Woodward.. my grandfather ran Woodward Diesel Service just East of town. I saw the first funnel from that day.. I remember it clear as day. I then moved to Del City and was less than 1/2 mile from the largest recorded Tornado Ever.. I had an airplane wing in my backyard from 70 miles away in Chickasaw..
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Originally posted by Octavius
I have a tornado in my pants.
heh
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Originally posted by Octavius
I have a tornado in my pants.
lol