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Royalfan5

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  1. 47 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Sounds like Greenfield, IA just got wiped off the map.  F4-5 potential based on some early indicators.

    If I’ve learned anything tornados love to hit towns with Green in the name hard in tornado alley. Hopefully it can wrap up, unless a guy with good insurance who wants out of the hog business can sacrifice some empty barns to it 

  2. 3 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Local schools are letting out early due to the weather threat.  Probably more of a function of not having to use many snow days in our near non-existent winter, but still catches your attention.

    No need to concentrate the kids even if the schools are pretty well built. Was it this time of year when Parkersburg got drilled? I remember the school getting smoked in that one. 

  3. 4 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    No.  The city actually.  Funny you mention Olivers though, as the other side of my family (the one that farms) had plenty, and a 1655 was the first thing I ever learned to drive (after the skidloader of course).  And I know a lot of guys my dad's age who worked in that White factory.

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    While I learned on a 706 on my Mom’s side, the local A-C/Oliver/MM dealer dominated our area, so it put that Charles City/Oliver connection pretty solid in my head. Those over/unders took the abuse of the dairy guys really well. (M-M big block propane motors on the irrigation wells to, a bunch still running today) 

  4. 1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    NWS just issued a "Favorable conditions for funnel clouds" for my county.

    I don't know if this is a precursor to an actual tornado watch, or if we've just zoomed on past that.  Does NOT seem like nader weather.  It was muggy AF yesterday, but it's been raining/drizzling since midnight.  Not much volatility in the air it seems.

    Just looked it up.  Weird.  Seems to just be aerial funnel clouds that don't become actual tornadoes.https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=IAZ009&warncounty=IAC089&firewxzone=IAZ009&local_place1=Cresco IA&product1=Special+Weather+Statement&lat=43.3746&lon=-92.1134 

    Crazy that it's happening by Charles City, though.  That place is an absolute nader magnet.  My grandpa was working there during their 1968 EF5.

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    He wasn't working for Oliver was he?

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Yeah, that's fair.  A lot of small town Oklahoma is pretty run down (no worse than a lot of Texas though, either in my experience) but I found Bartlesville to be better than most I've been through.

    I think with OK being this meeting point of the Midwest/South/Southwest, the more "Midwest" part of the state you're in (north and west of 44/40), the better off it tends to be compared to the more "South" parts (anything south of 44/east of 35).  Again, that's my bias coming through, but Bartlesville feeling more Midwest than South probably colored my perception.

    I mean they did have to abandon Picher in NE Oklahoma because it was falling into the abandoned lead mines. 

  6. 18 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    They crossed the Missouri with a vengeance. Bearing down on Des Moines now.
     

    I really hope we don’t run this back tomorrow. (Which was originally supposed to be the spicy day) I missed being in the big part of the storm by being at a family funeral south of Lincoln, but we all knew things were going to be bad with the way the 125 year old country Lutheran church was swaying and some of the grossest humidity I can ever recall. (Which makes me wonder what my German speaking ancestors thought the first time they got a plains storm showing up 1890ish)

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  7. 7 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Buddy in Lincoln is clear, sounds like he spent a lot of the evening in a parking garage basement

    He may not want to stray too far, I think it may pop off again tonight and tomorrow. It went 0 to tornado much faster than usual so thankfully today wasn’t the spring game that’s scheduled for tomorrow which would have been one hell of a goat rodeo 

  8. A plastics plant Lincoln adjacent took a direct hit, working to unearth trapped workers now. Storm crossed I-80, and plowed pretty hard into the new money Omaha suburbs after tossing a number of semi’s. My wife teaches history in a preserved 1 room school house in a park, and had to ride it out with a bunch of 4th graders in the city parks reptile center where they let the kids pet the snakes to keep them calm. 

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  9. 4 hours ago, choripan said:

    For a real ass-puckering bridge adventure, may I suggest taking an iced-over Mackinaw Bridge on a cold, windy day?

    200 feet above the water and 5 miles in total with a longest span around 3/4 of a mile long.

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    I drove over that on a normal summer day and can say riding on a Lao Air Dash8 loaded like a flatbed into Luang Pangbang was more enjoyable for me.

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  10. 26 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I have a pretty sound survival plan.

    I have a recent copy of a prepper real estate sales magazine.  I have weapons and enough gas and food to go to drive to one of those. Very cost efficient. 

    If shit really falls apart, what does putting a bunch of effort into surviving get me? Probably not a goddamn thing 

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  11. 5 hours ago, nnm said:

    I haven’t seen a second of corn basketball this year, but I’m looking forward to see TexAgs reaction to this dude. 

     

    He played a year for Billy Gillespie at Ranger too

  12. 4 hours ago, DFW Horn said:

    Poor Trev is gonna be so cornfused and cornflicted next week.

    Also probably the first time an AD one side, and the coach on the other are co-defendants in a lawsuit. 

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  13. I hope the ongoing NU women's basketball lawsuit that Trev is named in blows up in Aggy's face like Les Miles's LSU stuff got him canned at KU. Also even by our standards the dumbfucks we elected to the Board of Regents and Gov.. have managed to fuck up what was a reasonably cromulent land grant system for a state of our size. 

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