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[radar]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: radar

We had an EF-3 tornado plow through our neighborhood last night. Seven trees in our yard went down due to the 135+ mph vortex winds, but none of them struck the house. We had some minor roof damage, but not much else. Unfortunately, many of our neighbors did not fare as well.

radar-glad you're mostly OK. No one in the neighborhood seriously hurt, I hope? Any hail damage?

We had an EF-3 that came within a few hundred yards of our house in Minnesota (!) two years ago. Pretty scary stuff. Superficial home damage, but some neighbors had lots worse.

We had plenty of warning and I don't believe there were any serious injuries. We were about 5 blocks from the most serious damage.

It's strange having TV news vans and emergency crews parked in front of your house. No hail in this particular storm cell, but baseball-sized hail was reported in nearby areas. Duke Energy did a great job of getting the power lines back up.

[scott64]

Not sure which is worse an EF-3 or F-5
14 were killed in my hometown [:(]
http://charlescitypress.blogspot.com/20 ... rnado.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may15196 ... rsaccounts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_1 ... 8page1.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_1 ... 8page1.pdf

[scott64]

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may151968

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: radar

We had an EF-3 tornado plow through our neighborhood last night. Seven trees in our yard went down due to the 135+ mph vortex winds, but none of them struck the house. We had some minor roof damage, but not much else. Unfortunately, many of our neighbors did not fare as well.

Wow, glad you were spared, radar. I saw some pictures of the damage around the state. [:(]

[USSAmerica]

As far as I know, we just had some thunder and a lot of wind with our rain last night.  [&o]

[USSAmerica]

Good night, Thread.  [>:]

[DuckofTindalos]

Today and tomorrow and then a five-day weekend tithe...

[Grollub]

Mornin' gents.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Good morning!


Leo "Apollo11"

[comte]

Good Morning Guys [:)]

[comte]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Also, an interesting tidbit. I decided to watch Band of Brothers for the umpteenth time the other day, and then went to Google a few things I was wondering about. Came upon a bit of info I found facinating. It seems that the neither the 506 PIR nor the 501 were part of 101 ABD TO&E for the entire war (seems it was only the 502, the two glider regts and an airborne arty btn, everything else was attched). The 506 was officially attached only after the German surrender and the 501 never was. Although when the division was reactivated in the 50s, it was made up of the 501, 502 and 506.

It was even stranger with the 82nd. They started the war with 505, 504 and 2 glider regts). Seems they left the 504 in Italy and jumped into Normandy with 2 attached PIRs, one of which they kept for the duration. Not sure what happened to the second one.

Anyway, thought someone would find that interesting. [:)]

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm not sure if the 82nd had one glider regiment or 2. [&:]

Interesting stuff. The 501st and the 506th went on to Fight in Vietnam at Hamburger Hill and at the battle of FSB Ripcord I believe.

[comte]

And a new Page

[USSAmerica]

Good morning - tithe. [&o][&o][&o]

[sprior]

Good afternoon. Just finished authoring my first managemant pack for Ops Manager. My head hurts.

[Onime No Kyo]

Morning tithe.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Good afternoon. Just finished authoring my first managemant pack for Ops Manager. My head hurts.

I'm not sure what that is but I imagine youre glad its done. [:)]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

As a side note... anyone here playing "EVE Online"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve_Online

No answers... thus it is most likely that nobody here played it... I heard it is Elite-sque and I loved Elite 20+ years ago... my first truly "drug" game...



Leo "Apollo11"

[sprior]

I Loved "Elite", apart from matching rotation with that space station.

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: scott1964

Not sure which is worse an EF-3 or F-5
14 were killed in my hometown [:(]
http://charlescitypress.blogspot.com/20 ... rnado.html
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/arx/?n=may15196 ... rsaccounts
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_1 ... 8page1.pdf
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/Image/arx/May_1 ... 8page1.pdf

EF-5 is pretty nasty stuff. Pretty rare. IIRC, sustained winds of >200MPH, pulls up pavement, no standing structures of pretty much any sort survive.

When I lived in Dallas in 1979, Wichita Falls and N. Texas got whalloped by a tornado cluster. April 10th, 1979 sucked if you lived around there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Red_R ... o_outbreak

[Chickenboy]

And a good morning tithe.