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Tornadoes have hit in major states

Cpvr

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Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak as violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail are expected across the Midwest and South with the cross-country storm moving east.

The same storm system delivered raging winds to the Plains states earlier, leading to wildfires and severe dust storms that left at least 13 people dead in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

Overall at least 28 deaths have been recorded from the cross-country storm system, including 15 related to tornadoes.

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...-updates-18-dead-dozens-injured/?id=119832914

https://twitter.com/x/status/1901020435816607898

https://twitter.com/x/status/1901041401250378193

https://twitter.com/x/status/1901012727700611245
 
I’m west of the storms but it’s really bad for a lot of people. There have been dozens of storms so far and still tonight and maybe tomorrow to go. It’s a huge outbreak both geographically and number of individual storms. I hope no one here is affected.

Latest death toll is 26. 🥲
 
I survived 2 tornados as a kid when I was in Texas. I was evacuated 4 times by forest fires as a young adult living in the mountains. I feel for anyone affected by dangerous weather. Very sad all the hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and now tornados.
 
Faye 2.0 said:
I survived 2 tornados as a kid when I was in Texas. I was evacuated 4 times by forest fires as a young adult living in the mountains. I feel for anyone affected by dangerous weather. Very sad all the hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, and now tornados.
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What part of texas? I’ve heard of tornados hitting texas before, but i wasn’t fully aware of if it was common or not. I know houston recently had one last year.
 
Cpvr said:
What part of texas? I’ve heard of tornados hitting texas before, but i wasn’t fully aware of if it was common or not. I know houston recently had one last year.
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East Texas and the Panhandle are in Tornado Alley.
 
All we've had so far is a lot of rain which we need. But they say that the danger is not over until 10:00 tonight.

I saw that there was a lot of damage in Louisiana. I hope that @Yvonne Smith and @Bobby Cole are OK.
 
Smithy said:
Oh no would be nice to hear an update from @Yvonne Smith and @Bobby Cole :(
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We are both fine, and thank you for asking, @Smithy ! We didn’t have anything more than a few thunderstorms here in northern Alabama, and Marco Poodle spent the evening cuddled up on my lap where he feels safe. He doesn’t shake and shiver like he used to do when I first got him, because now he knows it is just noise and he is safe on my lap.

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I've been avoiding thinking too much about the way some people react to those storms. For some they are rare, or they don't really have shelter, or they're just too hardened to life.

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Years ago, on a Friday night, I was in Norman, Oklahoma when a huge t-storm came thru. I was at a country-western nightclub having a beer and thought I heard thunder. Went to the main entrance, opened the door and WOW, talking about rain/lightning/thunder. I wound up being too tired to stay, so I left the nightclub and headed back to my motel room. I felt like I was driving thru a river of water! I drove slow and headed to a self-storage area parking lot that was on higher ground. Sat there for awhile until the storm passed. I had never seen so much water flowing down a street. This all happened some 10 years before I met my wife.
 
Cody Fousnaugh said:
Years ago, on a Friday night, I was in Norman, Oklahoma when a huge t-storm came thru. I was at a country-western nightclub having a beer and thought I heard thunder. Went to the main entrance, opened the door and WOW, talking about rain/lightning/thunder. I wound up being too tired to stay, so I left the nightclub and headed back to my motel room. I felt like I was driving thru a river of water! I drove slow and headed to a self-storage area parking lot that was on higher ground. Sat there for awhile until the storm passed. I had never seen so much water flowing down a street. This all happened some 10 years before I met my wife.
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Yep, had that happen driving my Ford pickup into Amarillo, Texas back in the late 60s. I was headed up to Lights that made custom trailers (Trevor Brazile's grandpa) when, after plowing water, I went into a dip in the freeway and drown out the engine. No cell phones then, so I had to wait 10 minutes until the flash flood passed and then get out and dry out the distributor.
 
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We had a lot of rain but not much wind. I did see some lightening and hear some thunder just after midnight, but it was in the distance.
 
I think it was March 30th when we had a series of tornados and also very high straight-line winds.

My son lives about 30 miles to the south of me, and he had a tree come down and take his power line down. Last weekend they were still cutting and clearing after the power company had long moved on.

A few miles east of me one of the tornados touched down. Not a big one, but it took out a few homes and buildings. Rural area, so it didn't hit too many.

I drove out that way last Friday. I'd been by earlier and saw the twisted and snapped off trees. Friday there were still broken trees, but also as I approached I thought I saw a flooded field. Turned out that along the track of the tornado last year's tall yellow grasses had been broken down flat and were an eerie grey color. Maybe topsoil particles embedded into the plants or something? Very weird looking, almost as if bleached.
 
So sad to see this. I watch a lot of Reed Timmer on YouTube when he is live, and he does so much to try and help people get shelter before these storms hit.
 
Part of the reason that I couldn't wait to turn 18 and get out of the massive cornfield I grew up in was tornadoes. When I was 12 a tornado tore the roof off of a Wiggly Piggly store that my Mom and Dad had just shopped at. They said they had just come out of the store and were driving out of the parking lot and saw the roof of the store getting torn off. I was glad my Dad had enough common sense to drive away from the line the tornado was moving along.

There were no warnings in 1968, so all they could go by as what the sky looked like. And since they had been in the store, they didn't see the sky turn that distinctive light green or yellow color that it always turns when a tornado is nearby.
 
I’m happy to live west of the tornadoes for the most part.

However, I did hear there was a little one in Utah this week. :oops:
 
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