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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
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The Hallam NE tornado in 2004 was right around Memorial Day too now that I think it, and destroyed a small town and a good sized consolidated suburban school but would have been way worse if the path had shifted just a bit north or south.
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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.
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4 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:
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)
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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.
He wasn't working for Oliver was he?
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They really need to get an animatronic Mrs. B or something for the people old enough to remember her barreling around on her scooter and yelling at people
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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.
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12 hours ago, BearSchlong said:
No, but I ate a Dilly bar, See’s chocolate, and a very nice aged Prime NY Strip at Gorat’s.
Did you hit the original furniture mart too?
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40 minutes ago, bolverk said:
Seconded since this is turning into the catch-all "Tornado thread."
That's fine with me, but I haven't figured out how to change it yet.
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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 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
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19 minutes ago, chainsaw said:
keep who calm?
A little of both I suppose
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Sounds like in a small miracle only 3 of the 70 employees in the collapsed plastics plant were injured, all non-critical. Also a BNSF coal train was removed from the tracks without injuries
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I’m sure they were offered Busch Lights by folks going out to drink and storm watch
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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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Just now, Ghost of LL said:
A couple hundred thousand ballistic missiles and drones.
Wheat and cattle trading has not kept me up on arms stuff I guess.
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58 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
It could be bad, Ray
What does Iran have that they can lob all the way across to Levant?
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4 hours ago, choripan said:
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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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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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
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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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The NCAA going with double NU/Aggy first round tourney games is pretty funny at least
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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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Sam Altman: Genius Good Guy or Elon-esque Bad Guy?
in Daily Texan
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I think I'd rather have him trying to run a Dairy Queen somewhere.