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Title: Tornado!
Post by: rpm on June 10, 2009, 06:59:47 PM
Looks like the HTC Mothership is getting kicked hard by a tornado. DUCK SKUZZY!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: soda72 on June 10, 2009, 07:02:06 PM
Tornado in Grapevine


<<Flower mound

 :O
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: rpm on June 10, 2009, 07:06:05 PM
The guy flying the Channel 11 helo is a nut.
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: CptTrips on June 10, 2009, 07:12:25 PM
<------  Grapevine near the mall

Yikes!  I just made it home from my evening walk.  Bad timing.  

The wind just came out of nowhere.  (just high wind no tornado) I was walking along the trail by the golf course and started getting pelted HARD by sand, pebbles, sticks, crap!  At first I was laughing but then it started to freakin hurt!  It was coming pretty straightline so I was able duck lke a commando behind the rows of cars in my apt lot and miss most of the projectiles.  I was literrally see pool chairs, roof tiles, vent covers and big torn off tree limbs (25lbs) tumbling along the road.  Lots of lightning and lights of apt flashing on and off.  One spanish guy opened his apt door and was waving me in but I was reasonably close to home by then.

That was mildly exciting.

Wab
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: CptTrips on June 10, 2009, 07:22:59 PM
Lol.  My patio just now...


(http://www.jasonirby.net/bitbucket/trees.jpg)


Wab
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: soda72 on June 10, 2009, 11:29:49 PM
A part of my back yard fence has fallen down, and the house in front of mine had part of a tree lying in his drive way.






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Post by: bravoa8 on June 10, 2009, 11:46:07 PM
yeah that was pretty bad but HiTech was on afterwards first time id ever seen hitech on the game :lol
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: boxboy28 on June 11, 2009, 12:28:28 AM
Same stuff herew in south westrern NC ...........last 2 days have been violent thunder busters (cause the break everything)!



i think God or the gods are madre as hrck cause i heard them bowling hours before they started throwing and breaking things!




 :noid :aok
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: Masherbrum on June 11, 2009, 12:39:01 AM
Skuzzy, please tell us that you invested in a sturdier wheel for "The Server Hamster".
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: Larry on June 11, 2009, 12:52:54 AM
Skuzzy, please tell us that you invested in a sturdier wheel for "The Server Hamster".

I here they just stopped putting scotch in its water bottle and that solved the stability problem.






Hope everyone got out okay.
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: 68Raptor on June 11, 2009, 07:31:35 AM
Turned out to be a rough one for us. Our 30' large silver maple in the backyard (largest tree in the neighborhood) was the first casualty  :mad: Along with the fence and the neighbors patio furniture. Lucked out that it did not hit the neighbors house or ours. Took some roof damage and minor other damage along the front of the house.

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Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: soda72 on June 11, 2009, 08:26:37 AM
Turned out to be a rough one for us. Our 30' large silver maple in the backyard (largest tree in the neighborhood) was the first casualty :mad: Along with the fence and the neighbors patio furniture. Lucked out that it did not hit the neighbors house or ours. Took some roof damage and minor other damage along the front of the house.

It looks like a lot trees have snapped in half.  The only casualty I've noticed so far is the back fence..
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: trigger2 on June 11, 2009, 09:01:42 AM
i think God or the gods are madre as hrck cause i heard them bowling hours before they started throwing and breaking things!

I agree...
Zeus is pissed cause Aeris stole his lightning again... that son-of-a-gun... So now Aeris has to keep Zeus at bay by distracting him with exploding things all over the US... like a Tornado in Oregon a few days ago. :D
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: 68Wooley on June 11, 2009, 12:11:29 PM
Turned out to be a rough one for us. Our 30' large silver maple in the backyard (largest tree in the neighborhood) was the first casualty  :mad: Along with the fence and the neighbors patio furniture. Lucked out that it did not hit the neighbors house or ours. Took some roof damage and minor other damage along the front of the house.

Ouch Raptor - glad it didn't turn out any worse.

You guys all need to move to SoCal. The people are nuts and the government's bankrupt, but the weather rocks.
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: 68Raptor on June 11, 2009, 12:22:15 PM
Ouch Raptor - glad it didn't turn out any worse.

You guys all need to move to SoCal. The people are nuts and the government's bankrupt, but the weather rocks.

The weather rocks but so does the ground.. little too much

Thanks Wooley. The fun continues as we go....
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: allaire on June 11, 2009, 05:05:29 PM
Yeah both seasons they have in Cali  mudslide and wildfire. :rofl
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: Curlew on June 12, 2009, 02:04:00 AM
Yeah both seasons they have in Cali  mudslide and wildfire. :rofl

lol in cali we get all 4 seasons: earthquake, mudslide, wind, and wildfire  :rock
Title: Re: Tornado!
Post by: Babalonian on June 12, 2009, 03:55:17 PM
They've had tornado warnings around some of the metropolitan areas of So-Cal over the past few years too...  it's wicked weather, I hope you guys are all ok in Texas.

Most of our problems here in Cali are avoided simply by being prepared (even for earthquakes)... but unfortunatley, most homeowners here in So-Cal really don't know much about owning a home or keeping that home prepared.

Mudslides: Those complaining are the homeowners who built or purchased their McMansions via carving a chunk out of hill with 200-300% slopes with a retaining wall higher than the house's rooftop, or at the bottom of a canyon.  Some of the winter storms here can be real drenchers.  A stack of sandbags on standby in the garage, and the physical and mental ability to use them goes a very long way during the worst of the storms.

Wildfires: Those complaining are the ones too cheap or too lazy to break out the weed-wacker each year and clear all the brush around their property (the more space you clear, the better).  Then they are also the ones who cry murder at the fire departments because they think it's a trivial task for trained firefighters to defend a house against a fire traveling 20-40 mph, fed by 50+ mph winds and 10-foot tall-n-thick brush all the way up to the side of a structure.

Earthquakes aren't THAT bad out here, the last major one I remember was the Northridge.  We know they happen and are prepared for them.  Big earthquakes can happen anywhere, so I'm more confident living in an area that deals with them regularly and is prepared for them than an area where most people (and the infrastructure) aren't.