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Happy Stormchasers caught in large tornado

Monday, 15 March 2021, 18:30 MJA Uncategorized 19

Stormchasers in Happy, Texas were caught in large tornado.
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19 Comments on Happy Stormchasers caught in large tornado

  1. Happy is about an hour away from me. There were huge thunderstorms and tornadoes all over the Panhandle Friday and Saturday night. I got only high wind and 2 inches of rain. I am blessed.

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  7. I’ve been through two tornadoes in Maryland (believe it or not).
    The first in 2000. The same one that killed two sisters at University of Maryland when it lifted their car over a building and dropped it. As it entered my neighborhood it lifted and passed over my house and then touched down again a 1/4 mile away. My family huddled in the basement as it went over. It does sound just like a freight train. It sucked the air out of the basement through the outside door. I heard the sucking sound as the air rushed by the door gasket and threshold seal.
    The second time was in 2018, when one passed over my car while I was stopped at at a traffic light. Again, it hadn’t touched down yet. It shook the car violently. Other vehicles nearby were damaged by flying debris.

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  9. @Huron

    Here is something you may know about. Last week I flew from DC to Detroit (Monday 3/8). I know geography pretty well and I noticed a bright orange sky north of Lake Erie. Not only that, it looked like there were 3 huge fires on the ground that made the sky orange. I figured it was between Sarnia and London, ON. I have never seen anything like it. I know there are petrochemical industries around Sarnia, so I’m thinking it was that.

    I think you live around there. Do you know what it was?

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  10. @ǝpɐɥsʇɥɓᴉuɹǝdnS March 15, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    “…but there’s a huge letdown at the end……”

    Would that be upon a certain witch with striped hose and ruby slippers?

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  11. I had a college roommate at the University of Kansas who was studying to be a meteorologist. One day we had a tornado come through close by but away from campus. He decided that he was going to chase it.

    Now keep in mind that this was a 19 year old in 1976, with no technology and no prior experience doing anything like this (yes, there was alcohol involved). So he took off in pursuit of the twister.

    Several hours later he showed up back at the dorm coated from head to toe in mud. A power line had come down across the road and blocked his path. Details of how he extricated himself from his predicament to this day remain sketchy.

    As a post script note, I happened to be in North Carolina one weekend, some 25 or so years later, and happened to see a Charlotte N.C. TV station news broadcast. And son of a bitch there he was giving the weather forecast! For anyone who lives in the the Charlotte area, his name is John Cessarich.

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  15. People don’t realize how dangerous power lines are. They look like uninsulated steel cables but they carry 13000 volts. You touch it and you will turn completely black in N instant

  16. stirrin the pot
    MARCH 15, 2021 AT 8:25 PM
    @ǝpɐɥsʇɥɓᴉuɹǝdnS March 15, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    ““…but there’s a huge letdown at the end……”

    Would that be upon a certain witch with striped hose and ruby slippers?”

    …yeah, but the slippers got looted, like, IMMEDIATELY, by this punky out-of-town girl who went on to form a gang and contracted to kill her sister when she objected…

    https://i.imgflip.com/1cy7no.jpg

  17. TimBuktu: Most likely flare stacks, one at nova chem and one at plains midstream/bp, they turn night into day. the valley probably has a dozen of them. The whole Sarnia/lambton area is full of natural gas wells. Petrolia just out side of Sarnia had one of if not the first commercial oil wells in north america

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