Tornado rakes Southern Indiana; Marysville, town of 1,900, 'completely gone' (Pictures inside)
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[QUOTE=faze;34966936]78 tornadoes in 1 day. February averages 80 over the entire month. Damn
Also, rating this funny? Really? Fucking losers.[/QUOTE]
wasn't the record set last year for somewhere around 100?
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i've never been in a tornado luckily, but have had some close calls and staring at a funnel that could produce a tornado sends a chill down your spine
[QUOTE=MenteR;34967331]hahahahaha ever heard of a joke, sperg? damn[/QUOTE]
woah you called someone a sperg, so ~edgy and cool~
I have a really good friend in Kentucky, and he hasn't been online on Steam for a while. I hope he's alright, I dunno what I'd do if he was hurt.
[QUOTE=MenteR;34967331]hahahahaha ever heard of a joke, sperg? damn[/QUOTE]
You're not very funny.
Had like 4 rapid power outages here in Indianapolis. Couldn't get on Facepunch.
And another town in Kentucky just got leveled...
was at the office all day today in greenwood, IN. Power flickered once and tornado sirens were on all day...but...HAD TO GET THAT QUOTE DONE, NO TIME FEAR SILLY TORNADOES!!
Fucking tornado made [I]our[/I] school sit in the hallway for an hour on non-existant-tornado watch.
Why don't you people just live underground?
Its still windy as fuck here in Indy, and its not getting much better :v:
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[QUOTE=farmatyr;34967853]Why don't you people just live underground?[/QUOTE]
Well I do have a basement, but my computer is upstairs so...
I read the title as "1900 people are completely gone"
I just watched the radar as a tornado plowed through a town 10 or so miles north of me.
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[QUOTE=mopman999;34967860]Its still windy as fuck here in Indy, and its not getting much better :v:
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Well I do have a basement, but my computer is upstairs so...[/QUOTE]
... So move it downstairs?
We were sitting in the living room watching the coverage for the storms for two hours straight. We're in a trailer, so we would've been completely fucked if a tornado decided to touch down by us :v:
Thankfully we're up in the hills in WV so all we had to worry about were relatives in Charleston/St. Albans (an apartment building, fire dept. and trailer were destroyed in the latter, we got worried for a while but everyone we know is okay). All we got was heavy rain here.
[QUOTE=michaeldim;34967902]I just watched the radar as a tornado plowed through a town 10 or so miles north of me.
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Yeah, the Woodstock area got hit pretty hard, though it was mostly around Canton.
Unfortunately, I was in a car at the time, but that was mostly bad judgment on my part. No structural damage reported yet, though, and I don't think any causalities, either.
Just think, if we all lived underground we wouldn't have to worry about these things. It would suck ass, but solve so many problems.
Massive thunder and lightning here in Maryland.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;34965492]It completely skipped past Bloomington at IU here, we literally have had the sun out all day![/QUOTE]
Hahaha, I thought I was the only one in Bloomington.
We didn't get shit, just some clouds and a bit of wind. Warm and partly sunny all day.
It a bit terrifying to see how absolutely massive this storm line is.
[url]http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/southeast/weather-radar[/url]
Is me or do a lot of these storms that gets near Atlanta seems to just split apart?
Had these storms all of this morning and afternoon. Things are calming down, but it's pretty bad in Kentucky and North Carolina right now. :(
It rained here all day.
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Jesus that's insane.
I'm in Eastern Kentucky. My city was very fortunate to have not been hit hard. I have family in West Liberty though. I haven't seen pictures yet, but word is, the town is almost completely leveled, having been hit by several tornadoes both tonight, and during the last storm earlier in the week. Waiting to hear if the family is okay, so I'm crossing my fingers. This storm was terrible.
[QUOTE=farmatyr;34967853]Why don't you people just live underground?[/QUOTE]
Most people's basements will suffice for protection. Some people take extra precautions and will install shelters. I have one off in the corner of my basement that goes down another 12 feet into the earth that I could go to in case of a tornado with a steel blast door that's rated to survive F-5 category winds. The room itself is basically a steel box encased in a concrete shell 18 inches thick. They have similar ones that are meant to be above ground, too.
The only problem with those sorts of totally underground shelters are that they can become problematic to take care of. Water damage and plant damage are the main culprits (water and plants practically work in tandem to destroy concrete; water helps to erode it, plants crack it, water gets into the cracks and erodes it further, so on and so forth).
And then there are earthquakes- which are fairly common here, especially in Southern Missouri. Usually, they'll do nothing more than shake shit off of shelves, tables, and walls (sometimes, with older homes, windows will bust out or the glass will crack). At worst they'll crack brick and concrete structures.
But the larger ones can cause pretty extensive damage. And then we have the New Madrid fault line which we're going to have to contend with someday. And it will rape pretty much every living thing in the area. The 1811 and 1812 Earthquakes that came from it made the Mississippi flow backwards in places for several hours, unleashed sand blows all over the place, and knocked chimneys over as far away as [i]Maine[/i].
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Downtown West Liberty, KY
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Gonna get more pictures of the town as I get them. I used to go there a lot as a kid, so it's weird seeing it almost completely gone.
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Jesus that's insane.[/QUOTE]
Have any idea of what the brown might indicate?
It passed over us here in Lexington, Ky. I'm here for college, but I drive past West Liberty every time I go home to see the family, whom evacuated our house. It's safe, luckily. From what I've heard West Liberty, Saylersville, and quite a bit of Morgan County have areas completely leveled. I feel so bad for the families that have lost everything, and to those dead.
One thing that never ceases to surprise me with these US tornado stories is the relatively low death toll. Entire towns flattened, yet the vast majority of residents survive. Kind of a nice "fuck off" to nature's destructive force.
A good example of disaster preparedness in action, I suppose. Those whose homes were destroyed have probably lost everything, except for their lives at least. Those who have lost someone, christ I can't imagine how shit things are for them to lose both a family member and their home.
It did nothing except rain and thunder. I swear, Atlanta has like a barrier or something.
[QUOTE=Sodisna;34972387]It did nothing except rain and thunder. I swear, Atlanta has like a barrier or something.[/QUOTE]Pretty much. Large urban centers have such vastly different climates from the surrounding areas that they may as well have a bubble around them.
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