Posted on 09/21/2013 2:05:19 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
I’ve been surprised over the last decade that mountains/hilliness aren’t more effective in disrupting tornadoes.
thanks guys.
When I first saw that, I remembered my old geography professor telling us that exact same thing way back in the early 70s.
Cute, but Moore has hard evidence of multiple significant strikes. Not statistical what-iffery.
Knew this back in ‘74.
Got to witness Athens, Al get destroyed.
Got to see it again in 2011.
The got hit in 2012.
I think there might be some scientific speculation that rugged terrain might disrupt weaker tornadoes more than strong supercell storms. I know that one of the bad storms of April 2011, the EF-4 Ringgold Georgia-Apison Tennessee tornado, went over a ridge before killing 20 people.
Already knew this. Have been through several F5s. Our local tv stations go to full time storm coverage when we are under a watch/warning . Facebook was our source for info during the last one. Don’t know what we would have done without it when we were without power for over a week. I kept my iPhone charged by using my car battery.
Did you get hit by the one in 1989? Think that was the year.
Oh Great. Not that I hadn’t already figured it out. As a citizen of Rocket City U.S.A. . . . I knew it was bad. I’d love to get a shelter. But one outfit in town is being sued for putting in sub-standard shelters. Great, spend 10K or whatever and think your family is protected when they really aren’t. I hate torando warnings. The early closing of the schools. I just hope & pray at this point, all ya can do. We WILL build a safe room in our next house. After ‘08 we’ve been in limbo to rebuild and with a kid just second year college and one in 11th grade . . . we couldn’t just up and move either and disrupt their lives . . . we have some property in TN we’d like to build on but on hold for another 18 months. Safe room, will build it big enough and large enough for some bunk beds, a sofa maybe, plenty of supplies, a bookcase for photo albums. Until then . . . prayers.
Yep, I use my Diesel cars to keep a small bank of batteries charged for various inverters when we have grid failures.
(Plus I keep a tactical reserve of Diesel fuel for various "emergencies").
That looks nasty for N. Ala.
Buy a place from the 50’s with a Bomb Shelter. ;-)
We moved here in ‘92. I had no idea. Until some co-workers at Boeing on the space station project bought a photo album to work. Off all the cars off Airport Road with the big spray painted X’s on them to indicate they had been searched. I was like Uh-Oh.
yep we were without power for a full week. Charged phones in car. Neighbor used a couple of 100’ extension cords and kept our garage freezer going and the neighbor on his other side going. We managed to escape far enough into TN to buy a little 7” RCA ac/dc digital tv to keep up with the morning EMA updates. Long week. Cold showers. Pop tarts, peanut butter sandwiches, crackers. Water.
Many find that those inexpensive solar powered garden lights work fine as night lights all around the house.
Yep that is what we’ll use next time. Just installed 24 of them this past week and ditched the electric ones which had been abused over the years with the kids playing soccer and hitting baseballs and whacking them accidentally . . . :)
The current units are quite efficient as they use a chip to institute a high frequency capacitor charging stratergy to limit current to the LED ilo a power dissipating resistor.
Thanks. I had some photo Double A’s just the other day my husband put on the charger, after I had put them on with the message from the camera, charge the batteries, after charging them full . . . so he set them to completely run-down discharge then re-charge . . . seems this process was quite lengthy, don’t know why but it seemed to have worked. For some reason, me and re-chargeable batteries don’t get along. :)
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