driftwoody
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Post by driftwoody on Jul 15, 2024 18:22:50 GMT -8
Sirens blaring now. We're in a middle room away from windows. No basement.
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Post by driftwoody on Jul 15, 2024 18:50:22 GMT -8
We still have a thunderstorm with heavy rain & gusty wind, but the tornado warning has passed.
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 16, 2024 7:03:46 GMT -8
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Post by va3pinner on Jul 16, 2024 7:12:05 GMT -8
Driftwoody, glad you all are OK, the last message I saw was the one about the sirens blaring. I can remember when the derecho ripped through here in 2012, that was scary enough.
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Post by driftwoody on Jul 16, 2024 7:44:54 GMT -8
Driftwoody, glad you all are OK, the last message I saw was the one about the sirens blaring. I can remember when the derecho ripped through here in 2012, that was scary enough. The derecho in Woodridge IL was less than 3 miles from my house.
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 16, 2024 8:10:23 GMT -8
Sirens blaring now. We're in a middle room away from windows. No basement. Yikes! I missed this...glad you're OK. What's a Derecho? And is it called an Izquierda in the southern hemisphere?
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Post by reuben on Jul 16, 2024 9:15:21 GMT -8
What's a Derecho? And is it called an Izquierda in the southern hemisphere? It's a fast moving and persistent bow wave of high wind. It's an izquidera if you cross the international date line.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jul 16, 2024 9:18:17 GMT -8
More tornadoes in our area yesterday evening. That make about 15 "radar indicated" tornadoes within the past week. More possible today. Very weird.
ETA: Today is another day above 90F. Heat index is 106F. ETA#2: Another tornado, just northwest of here
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jul 16, 2024 9:19:16 GMT -8
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 16, 2024 9:30:39 GMT -8
Huh……we don’t have any such thing on the west coast. Never heard of it.
Next you guys are gonna tell me that Sharknadoes are real??
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Post by va3pinner on Jul 16, 2024 9:49:41 GMT -8
I'll explain how I grew to understand the real meaning of Derecho. In 2012 we had a similar heat wave across the country. A big cold front dipped out of Canada and started pushing a line of violent weather across from the Great Lakes south east in my direction (Virginia). It was moving fast, I watched weather for about a day and half and it was very clear we were going to get it.
I wanted to see what a Derecho w as like. As it drew nearer to my area, the news was alive with potential effects, warnings, etc. They were telling everyone to take cover and do it NOW. So I go out on the front porch looking west toward the Blue Ridge Mtns. It was a solid absolutely black wall out there. Usually I can follow the clouds and the rain, but this was ink black, and radar showed it moving really fast.
Off in the distance I could hear the growing roar of the wind & the rain, Before I realized it, the wall was racing up the street, blew me right off my feet onto my concrete porch. I wasn't far from the front door, got it open, and staggered into the house. My wife was waiting for me. She just looked at me and said "You won't try that again now will you??"
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Post by reuben on Jul 16, 2024 10:04:28 GMT -8
Some even come with a soundtrack. The red bow wave is the mosh pit. Sounds like va3pinner ended up in the pit.
I remember one that started in Ohio or somewhere further west, and blasted me in MD.
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Post by swiftdream on Jul 16, 2024 10:46:06 GMT -8
Huh……we don’t have any such thing on the west coast. Never heard of it. It’s Mexican. Derecho means straight ahead. When down there they also use derecha to designate a right turn. So one needs to listen closely because they don’t utter sounds like we do up in El Norte.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jul 16, 2024 11:09:23 GMT -8
I think we just got hit by a "weak" tornado. Trees were falling down near the creek in our backyard while we were headed to the basement. No big crashes on the house. About to get hit by another sqall line. Update: Damage limited to trees near the creek and a piece of fascia was torn from our roof. Rest of the house is fine. Update #2: Yep. Appears to have been a tornado. I can follow it on WUnderground's storm tracks... 35 miles long. ![](https://i.ibb.co/PgNV5HK/Tornado-7-16-24.jpg) ![](https://i.ibb.co/vBb3vRH/Tornado-7-16-24-Tree.jpg)
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jul 16, 2024 11:28:43 GMT -8
I think we just got hit by a "weak" tornado. Trees were falling down near the creek in our backyard while we were headed to the basement. No big crashes on the house. About to get hit by another sqall line. Yowza! What's going on? What did my favorite people do, to incur this wrath of god? Did you put pineapple on pizza? Stay safe...
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