| redleg |
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| 06/01/13 10:59 AM |
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All survive last nite????
| fastman |
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| 06/01/13 11:40 AM |
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| sptsman |
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| 06/01/13 12:40 PM |
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All good here. I have a brother who lives right next to Harvester and has some damage to his house but everyone I have spoken with is OK, so far. Houses can be repaired.
I don't see any fatalities so far. I hope and pray it stays that way!!
Keep up the prayers for those folks in Oklahoma. Talk about lightening striking twice...
| H2ODOG |
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| 06/01/13 01:27 PM |
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Lightening striking twice???????? Moore like 6 times. 98' 99' 03' 10' and twice this year. If I lived in Moore, OK.......my ass would have moved long ago. 6 times in 15 years. No way I stick around for that crap. Highest winds in the world were recorded in Moore in the 1999 tornado. People there are having a bad string of luck. I couldn't do it, but they keep staying.
| DuckMeRunnin |
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| 06/01/13 01:45 PM |
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Got some downed limbs, but the hail stopped before it shredded chit.
Those sirens seem to have a different tone when they're heard from inside a house with no basement.
The storm that tore up Harvester was waaay too close for comfort.
| Bubba |
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| 06/01/13 05:46 PM |
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My daughter lives very close to Harvester and Dingledine. LOts of minor structural damage all around her. She just lost their trampoline and pool chairs...Lucky!
| DuckMeRunnin |
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| 06/01/13 07:28 PM |
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I just finished helping my neighbor move his daughter. I saw some crazy damage, and it was even closer to me than I had thought. What a flippin' mess.
There isn't any trailer parks nearby,so it chewed up some 500K + homes instead. The county cops had the entrance to Whitmoor blocked, so the country club folks musy have gotten ground up as well.
The next time my cell phone tells me I'm in, " Imminent danger ", I might go hide in the bathtub insted of drinking beer and shooting pool.
| hucklburry |
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| 06/01/13 07:30 PM |
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friends neighbor at whitmor:
| Burrhead |
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| 06/01/13 08:42 PM |
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Damn...
| DuckMeRunnin |
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| 06/01/13 09:01 PM |
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That's a shame for sure, but that's minor damage compared to some homes in the area. Several are completely destroyed.
I don't know what the official word will be, but I'd bet they wont decide it was straight line winds.
| redleg |
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| 06/02/13 03:42 PM |
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Kinda figured some of ya's was gonna be in the chit from the radar
just got my happy ass out of that part of the country a few hours before.
| DuckMeRunnin |
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| 06/02/13 04:38 PM |
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The official word is EF-3 tornadoes. Not the worst, but plenty bad enough.
One was on the ground for 10 miles. Sure looks different in person versus on t.v.
| Deadeye |
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| 06/02/13 11:31 PM |
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Minnow bucket would not help ya.
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| 06/02/13 11:55 PM |
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Quote:
Deadeye said:
Minnow bucket would not help ya.
Obviously, you've never seen one deployed.
| MB2 |
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| 06/03/13 04:22 PM |
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Well, I hope everyone here and their families are okay, and haven't sustained too much damage to their property.
Ahh, the things that architectural history will teach you - like where to build and where not to buy. Having money doesn't count for much when you've decided that you HAVE to live in the latest and greatest up and coming area. Often, for many reasons that land has been vacant for many years, because folks *knew better* than to build there.
History is okay to look at, but mostly, you don't want to live in an area that has repeating patterns of floods, winds, fires and quakes. Chit doesn't always "just happen". Often it happens again and again.
Sometimes, you're better off just getting what you NEED, like a minnow bucket, and an older solidly built home....
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| 06/03/13 10:15 PM |
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History???
I'm sure there are patterns but we could talk about random chance even in the best statistical models-- even those that have 95% confidence levels
House was built in 1954-- very well built frame btw- so much for best and latest
Molly and I have lived here 26 years and until last five years or so -- never lost power--- now everytime the wind blows it is 50-50 and if it does go out--
48 hours plus until they get it back on---Ameren must look at it as the price you pay to live in Indian Country
Two years ago---tornado hit about 3 blocks south of us-- Friday night, it hit 3 blocks North of us. These are the only two times I ever went to the Scaredy Cat Hole
and having grown up in Oklahoma, I know when to head to the Scaredy Cat Hole and never had to head to the basement until now.
Wondering now if the next tornado will 'split the difference' between the last two hits-- wonder what the odds are? ( 50/50 at least
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Don't know how things are over in Foots firebase and free fire zone but he probably is picking up tree limbs-- if not whole trees as well-- and his house is brick
At least we don't live in Moore-- that probably does qualify as a 95% confidence level that one day you are gonna get hit.....bet dat
| MB2 |
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| 06/03/13 11:30 PM |
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I wasn't too happy when my niece moved to a sided house down there, from a brick house - but she keeps telling me that she's 35 and knows what she's doing. So, you know, I just left it alone.
We're just not used to that kind of action here, but yesterday the temperatures plummeted again. We still had snow last week.
I could have gone anywhere in the States, but a 50 year old home always has tell-tale signs, and cracks about what it has been through already.
Florida, on the other hand has brand new homes and condo buildings disappearing in sinkholes. Wouldn't that be a kicker.
Yeah, the power companies are something else - we always had power outages at the farm, but not so at this house.
But then, the power lines were above ground there - here they are buried.
| daffy |
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| 06/11/13 05:45 PM |
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It was a bit scary in my neck of the woods.
Came right thru Hwy 30 tree top high, never touched ground.
| DuckMeRunnin |
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| 06/11/13 10:07 PM |
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I'm gonna have to rent a log splitter.
The other one drinks too much and sleeps too late.
| MB2 |
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| 06/13/13 10:19 PM |
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No intuition, eh?
All this week there's been a 3,100 acre fire burning up in hills, near Uncle Duckin.
It's a good thing, I'm chit scared of fire, listened to my head, and REFUSED to buy up those hills....
There are pictures of the fire from about 25 miles away.
These guys that worked with us, are all from the area. I wish them all well.
It's still only 40% contained, and it's not expected to be fully under control, for another 10 days.