What's more current than the weather? - Page 36

xoxoxoBruce · 11-19-2013, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by fargon

Bruce is that your house?

No no, I'm snug in eastern PA. That was a picture I gleaned off the web, which I thought was unusual.

glatt · 11-20-2013, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

The tornado lifted the roof, blew the window in, blew the shade up an out, and dropped the roof on it.

That's amazing.

Tornadoes are so freaky. This picture is right up there with the famous pictures of the stalks of straw blown through a telephone pole.

DanaC · 11-20-2013, 01:51 AM

One of the things I love about my country is that the weather is rarely lethal.

Clodfobble · 11-20-2013, 08:31 AM

The pinpoint path of destruction always amazes me as well. One house in a tornado's path will be gone, completely leveled to the ground, and the house next door will appear untouched. At least with flooding, you know that all your neighbors got equally screwed.

tw · 11-20-2013, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

The pinpoint path of destruction always amazes me as well. One house in a tornado's path will be gone, completely leveled to the ground, and the house next door will appear untouched.

Detailed pictures for Hurricane Andrew in Time Magazine demonstrated why. Look closely. An aerial photo showed the entire block leveled. Look closely at houses across the street. Not one destroyed.

If its roof is not properly attached, it will lift off. Then the entire structure has been compromised - will easily fall like stacked cards. Those houses across the street apparently had hurricane straps. Those roofs did not fly. So those houses remained intact.

Visit a house being framed. Atop each stud are two horizontal 2x4s. It is called the plate. Observe outside corners. Do those 2x4s overlap? Or just butted together.

If corners are not properly constructed, then the house will fall like cards. If those 2x4s are not overlapped, then butted walls easy separate. Also half way up corner 2x4s MUST be blocks. So that intersecting walls are also joined half way up (4 feet). If these required construction practices do not exist (maybe half of homes are not done this way), then the house is an easy victim of any severe storm. And so across the street (on the edges of those Time Magazine pictures) was another block of houses that remained intact.

A devil is found in those details. Since I don't entertain the devil, then god recently visited me. But that's another topic.

footfootfoot · 11-20-2013, 10:53 AM

Or a redneck divorce...

busterb · 11-23-2013, 07:03 PM

If this is right? Will be lots of rednecks in the ditch on the way to Grandmaws house for Turkey.

Griff · 11-23-2013, 07:36 PM

Looks like a couple inches of effect snow tonight, but maybe something significant for the holiday.

Where I'd like to be:
http://www.killington.com/winter/multimedia/webcam

Gravdigr · 11-25-2013, 04:21 PM

RFN.

Well, RFfifteenminutesago. 35°, & falling.

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orthodoc · 11-26-2013, 11:00 PM

We've had a light snowfall, very snow-globe, although the snow is heavy and will likely bring tree limbs down. Hopefully it won't result in power outages.

I'm surprised at how mild the whole Winter Storm Boreas thing is so far. I guess Boreas lost some momentum crossing the midwest.

Lamplighter · 11-30-2013, 06:27 PM

Google Public Alerts: Special Weather Statement in Southwest Washington
Powerful Cold front to move through the Pacific Northwest Sunday and Monday.
Active for next 14 hours
National Weather Service

A "blue norther" is also coming down thru the Canadian Rockies

You all look out now... winter'll be in your neighborhood next.

glatt · 11-30-2013, 07:23 PM

The refrigerator was too full to store the turkey broth I made yesterday, so I put it in the pot out on the back stoop under an inverted recycling bin, weighed down with several bricks to keep animals out. Anyway, the broth was frozen this morning.

Winter is here.

Griff · 11-30-2013, 08:10 PM

Cross country skied three straight mornings. Same conclusion.

Lamplighter · 12-04-2013, 07:57 AM

Grass fires across New South Wales

Winter blizzards (2 fronts) from Utah to Minnesota

PDX is setting new records in the low 20's - clear and cold
The City has opened emergency shelters.
Blankets and coats given out to the homeless

And with a low front hanging off the coast, we may get freezing rain
in the near future and/or black ice on the roadways

... a favorite time of the year

Gravdigr · 12-04-2013, 02:26 PM

74° here today.

Freaky.

11-20-2013, 08:31 AM	#4
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	The pinpoint path of destruction always amazes me as well. One house in a tornado's path will be gone, completely leveled to the ground, and the house next door will appear untouched. At least with flooding, you know that all your neighbors got equally screwed. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

11-20-2013, 10:53 AM	#6
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Or a redneck divorce... __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-23-2013, 07:03 PM	#7
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	If this is right? Will be lots of rednecks in the ditch on the way to Grandmaws house for Turkey. Attached Images __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

11-23-2013, 07:36 PM	#8
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Looks like a couple inches of effect snow tonight, but maybe something significant for the holiday. Where I'd like to be: http://www.killington.com/winter/multimedia/webcam __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

11-25-2013, 04:21 PM	#9
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	RFN. Well, RFfifteenminutesago. 35°, & falling. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

11-26-2013, 11:00 PM	#10
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	We've had a light snowfall, very snow-globe, although the snow is heavy and will likely bring tree limbs down. Hopefully it won't result in power outages. I'm surprised at how mild the whole Winter Storm Boreas thing is so far. I guess Boreas lost some momentum crossing the midwest. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

11-30-2013, 06:27 PM	#11
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Google Public Alerts: Special Weather Statement in Southwest Washington Powerful Cold front to move through the Pacific Northwest Sunday and Monday. Active for next 14 hours National Weather Service A "blue norther" is also coming down thru the Canadian Rockies You all look out now... winter'll be in your neighborhood next.

11-30-2013, 07:23 PM	#12
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The refrigerator was too full to store the turkey broth I made yesterday, so I put it in the pot out on the back stoop under an inverted recycling bin, weighed down with several bricks to keep animals out. Anyway, the broth was frozen this morning. Winter is here.

11-30-2013, 08:10 PM	#13
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Cross country skied three straight mornings. Same conclusion. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

12-04-2013, 07:57 AM	#14
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Grass fires across New South Wales Winter blizzards (2 fronts) from Utah to Minnesota PDX is setting new records in the low 20's - clear and cold The City has opened emergency shelters. Blankets and coats given out to the homeless And with a low front hanging off the coast, we may get freezing rain in the near future and/or black ice on the roadways ... a favorite time of the year

12-04-2013, 02:26 PM	#15
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	74° here today. Freaky. __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

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