Sirens

[Gunny]

Love the sound of tornado sirens going off, trees are bent over but no rain yet. Hell of a breeze tho.
 News says winds are 83mph. 

Took my sleeping potions, might not work tonight.

Rob

 

[Gunny]

And just like that it is gone.

Rob.

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

Love the sound of tornado sirens going off, trees are bent over but no rain yet. Hell of a breeze tho.
 News says winds are 83mph.

Did you ever consider the possibility you're an adrenaline junkie?

 

[Gunny]

the red is the warning area.



Rob

 

[Gunny]

I hope one of the moderators can resize that photo, I tried but it didn't work. Sorry.

Rob

 

[Queen]

Those of us who are actually from tornado country either stop caring and only find it moderately interesting, or spend the entire Spring in a tizzy. In my house we are the former, if there's one sighted nearby we'll grab a bottle of wine and wander into the bathroom with the laptop and a movie, throw some pillows in the tub, get comfy, then get sloshed while we watch the movie.

 

[Ballenxj]

Love the sound of tornado sirens going off, trees are bent over but no rain yet. Hell of a breeze tho.
 News says winds are 83mph.

Did you check to make sure your truck, trailer, and four wheeler are still outside?

 

[ArtW]

Tornadoes? Hmmm, I don't think I want to meet one of those suckers

 

[hepcat]

D*mn, Rob... I thought you were talking about THIS kind of Sirens...

 

[LeeRevell]

Those of us who are actually from tornado country either stop caring and only find it moderately interesting, or spend the entire Spring in a tizzy. In my house we are the former, if there's one sighted nearby we'll grab a bottle of wine and wander into the bathroom with the laptop and a movie, throw some pillows in the tub, get comfy, then get sloshed while we watch the movie.

Sounds like us "old hands" in Hurricane Country (Florida). We stock up, make sure our preps are good, hunker down and ride it out. At times, when one is on the way in, I drive down to Walmart close by me, and watch "the floor show". College kids, soccermoms, softball dads, and unprepared Bubbas all literally fighting in the aisles for the bottles of water, packs of batteries, flashlights, canned food, etc.
It's like a Three Stooges movie. And when the storm passes us by, as it usually does, the idiots try to return everything they bought, not realizing it may be needed next month for the next storm. Hehe.......
We get tornadoes too, but nothing like Texas and Oklahoma.

 

[IanC]

Love the sound of tornado sirens going off, trees are bent over but no rain yet. Hell of a breeze tho.
 News says winds are 83mph. 

Took my sleeping potions, might not work tonight.

Rob

Yup, it was a doozy

 

[ArtW]

In Columbus, about 100 miles from Houston, we close off the exits from the interstates when Houstonites are running from Hurricanes, or they strip the town dry in like 3 hours

 

[Queen]

Sounds like us "old hands" in Hurricane Country (Florida).  We stock up, make sure our preps are good, hunker down and ride it out.  At times, when one is on the way in, I drive down to Walmart close by me, and watch "the floor show".  College kids, soccermoms, softball dads, and unprepared Bubbas all literally fighting in the aisles for the bottles of water, packs of batteries, flashlights, canned food, etc.
It's like a Three Stooges movie.  And when the storm passes us by, as it usually does, the idiots try to return everything they bought, not realizing it may be needed next month for the next storm.  Hehe.......
We get tornadoes too, but nothing like Texas and Oklahoma.

Yeah, learned the hurricane ropes when I lived there through Andrew, then Ivan, then the year with four in a row, and now Matthew.  I keep a kit set up when we're there with all the basics.  It is funny as hell to watch people FREAK OUT when one is announced.

We were in Key West one time, right after Ivan, the town had done a preemptive evacuation a couple of days before we got there, then the storm went up the east coast instead of heading their way... the town was deserted.  Restaurants were running specials like full meals including apps, entree, dessert, wine for $15...cheapest trip I ever made down there.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

Sounds like us "old hands" in Hurricane Country (Florida).  We stock up, make sure our preps are good, hunker down and ride it out.  At times, when one is on the way in, I drive down to Walmart close by me, and watch "the floor show".  College kids, soccermoms, softball dads, and unprepared Bubbas all literally fighting in the aisles for the bottles of water, packs of batteries, flashlights, canned food, etc.

I never understood this phenomenon.  They do it in New England every time there is a blizzard warning.  It's not that hard to keep a few weeks of food on hand in case of an emergency.  And this is a simple practice that should be followed year round, as it's most likely going to be an unannounced catastrophe that hits and prevents everyone from getting what they need anyways.  A few five gallon jugs of water and few boxes of canned goods/pasta/rice/beans etc and you'll never have to worry or be in panic mode every time the weather channel makes a prediction.   I don't think you need a 5 year stock pile (to each their own though, if that's what makes them comfortable) like some have but having a few weeks worth is just good common sense in my opinion.  Grocery stores need multiple truck deliveries daily, anything disrupts that pipeline and the shelves will be empty in a few days.  It's a very fragile system and I don't think many people realize it.  

I also have a generator, a few lanterns, woodstove and plenty of extra propane and gas on hand should I ever need it.

 

[ArtW]

we had a thunderstorm this morning, maybe tornado related lol

 

[Queen]

Queen, you must have your hurricanes confused, Ivan came up the middle of the Gulf. I saw it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Ivan

Guy

 You are absolutely correct on that, I checked with my wife and she said it was another one, but she couldn't remember which one.  We were stuck on the tarmac in Miami as Ivan was bearing down, hoping to get out before they canceled flights.  Maybe Erin is the one I'm thinking of??

 

[Gunny]

No damage here, very little rain, we were on the edge of the worst part. A lot of limbs down but no trees, in my little world anyway. Went outside for awhile during the winds (it was nowhere near 83 here) and watched the neighbors lawn chairs become frisbees.

I called the storage area my trailer is at and it was upright so I had no damage to anything, just a wash job on the atv.

I took the picture of the tv because it's the first time I've seen the entire screen red. The purple areas were the ones getting hammered.

Rob

 

[Dennis]

3/4" in my rain gauge this morning east of Dallas. The rumbling thunder lulled me to sleep but whistling wind and horizontal rain interrupted that for a few minutes. Passed through here with out tearing anything up.

 

[Gunny]

D*mn, Rob...  I thought you were talking about THIS kind of Sirens...

I could only wish it were. It would be a true test of my pacemaker. 

Rob