Tornado Warnings/Sirens

[lukethedrifter]

Holy [expletive], that is terrible. clever, did you hear from your folks yet?

[lukethedrifter]

That early storm was just a prelude to what weather forecasters had been warning for days. Schools were shut down and many took a day off from their jobs in anticipation of the events to come. People stayed glued to the radio, and many watched tornadoes touch down live on television, striking Cullman, Tuscaloosa and Birmingham.

http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2011/04/str ... ffort.html

and here's the thing. If the storm hadn't been quite so bad people would have [expletive] about the warnings, the school closings and meteorologists. Yay, devastation.

[BW23]

We had tornadoes in the area yesterday. We had a warning, and yet nothing was going on outside at all. It looked like it would go north of us. My wife and I went outside (as we were carrying stuff that got flooded in our basement, like carpet, out to the curb for trash pickup) and saw a wall cloud headed toward us. Then we saw the rotation start. Pretty ominous in how it looked. We rushed inside to get the kids into the basement. I kinda hung out to watch while they were downstairs. It got worse as it was just past us.

About 3 or 4 minutes later, about 12-15 minutes since we had first seen the rotation, we heard the sirens go off. Granted, I had to be outside to hear it. No way to hear it inside. It was very faint outside. About 5 minutes after that, we got the phone call from the city that there was a tornado warning. At that point, it was sunny again and there was a huge rainbow to the east.

I hope they aren't that slow at getting the message out if one happens to hit at night when most people are asleep.

[Spider John]

[lukethedrifter]

^goat.se?

[IMADreamer]

photoshop fail

[planet planet]

Death toll at 269?!?!

[Spider John]

photoshop fail

Why do you say that. I saw Franklin's missing goatee in the clouds yesterday.

I guess it could be. It's from the website of a Birmingham TV station, and the pics were solicited from the public.

I wish we could hear from clever about his parents.

Here's the as it happens video from Tuscaloosa:

http://www.cbs42.com/content/localnews/ ... TFy6A.cspx

[lukethedrifter]

photoshop fail

Why do you say that. I saw Franklin's missing goatee in the clouds yesterday.

I guess it could be. It's from the website of a Birmingham TV station, and the pics were solicited from the public.

I wish we could hear from clever about his parents.

For sure. I bet clever is going to be incommunicado for a few days.


Anything near Huntsville, Joe S?

[InvincibleCakeEater]

^goat.se?

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