we just had a Tornado warning

Is this late September or May???

:wtf:

The latest we had a tornado warning was November 2 at 4:00am. Yes, am! There was a funnel cloud spotted in the county. Too bizarre.

Your weather will hit us tomorrow. :(

Be safe!

in SW Missouri we have been in torando watch since yesterday...the same storm must be heading your way....stay safe...:) :hi:

Maybe I should stay at work late tonite. (Its a 4 story office building).

Heavy storm, think I heard hail and the wind was blowing like mad.

I hope you don't get hit...

said that this time of year is known for severe storms and tornadoes.

It just looked like a hurricane a few minutes ago here.

(Im in Itasca)

That wind was something else for a bit. Sirens were going off in the near west suburbs.

:scared:

the Tennessee River from south to north, near Rogersville and Wheeler Dam.

not sure of the exact location.

Air-raid sirens all over the city...when the Weather Channel ticker said a funnel cloud had been sighted in Humboldt Park (that's about a mile due west of me), I took the kitty to hang out for a few in the basement.

I can't imagine the damage and loss of life it a big tornado hit Chicago. :scared:

And it could happen. There's no reason why it couldn't. :scared:

I recently moved to the near west suburbs from the Far North Side of the city and had never heard an air raid siren for a tornado. I just stayed in my condo, which is all windows on two sides.

:shrug:

Jeez, I have friends in Humboldt Park. Hope they are all right.

And I looked outside and the sky was that freaky-ass color you only see when it's pretty damn bad.

I don't think anything touched down - it was just a sighting. But in more than one place, from what friends are telling me.

I remember once in the 1960s seeing a sky that color from where I lived far north (6000 north and close to the lake). It was the day of a big tornado that hit Oak Lawn -- which was a long way from us.

Great that nothing touched down.

Tornado Girl!

(From the album "LIVE" by Ellis Paul)


Sandy has seen a tornado more times than she's seen the Grateful Dead...
She lives in Oklahoma,
where the storms come prairie fed,
And the numbers keep on mounting,
It's been twenty times and counting
that she's been in the path of
splintered trees and twisted lead
That connect the dots between trailer parks
with destruction that's painted blood red

And now she wants to chase them,
with ME, in my Honda Civic,
"We'll keep a SAFE distance."
I say, "Give me an instance
where 'safety' is MILEAGE SPECIFIC..."
Okemah is where the last one touched down,
(that's Woody Guthrie's old home town) and,
(as if it would turn me around)
she starts singing "THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND"
I say, "OK, You win.....Terrific."

Now, I've never been to see something
that I wished wasn't even there,
Though I've heard that said of dentists,
and with in'laws, and from victims of the electric chair
But there I was, heading east on 44,
getting pelted by hailstones the size of BARN DOORS
so, of course, NONE of them were missing..
It was as if GOD was keeping score,
and THE HEAVENS were thundering their approval...
Thats when I suggested our hasty removal

Just a mile down the road, this rain of hailstones ceased
and a vaacuum of silence brought a turbulent peace....
The clouds started dancing, dressed up in taffeta green
and enveloped the sky in a jungle party theme--
There they gave birth to a barbed-wire wind
Sandy was frozen, her face had a maniacal grin,
A funnel cloud came roaring, cast down from the sky
like the knife of the Devil but twenty stories high!

Sandy broke from the car in a mad, desperation run
to touch her sole fixation, this wheel where death was spun,
and I could do but nothing, my heart came so undone
for the host of twenty tornadoes,
who died with twenty-one...

My :loveya: likes in OKC and gets tornado warnings and sirens several times a year.

and my nephew chases storms. Some of his video made it to the Weather Channel and CNN last November.

The author is a folk singer who is a disciple of Woody Guthrie. (I hope that clears up the references in the poem.) He performs every year at the festival in Guthrie's hometown.

www.ellispaul.com

Thanks for posting them and the explanation. :hi:

Remember sitting in the basement of my model home last April, funnel in Butler Co., sirens blaring out the wazoo.

i could see the weather was changing from this morning,left at 6 tonight and ran into rain...i`ve missed the bad weather in chicago the last few days...selling coffee in sam`s sucks

:hug:

No damage to me or my home.

:hug:

We were lucky, none of them hit here, but not far from here, homes were destroyed and farms were devastated. For the record, this was in South Dakota. A ten year old girl died in Minnesota because the sirens never sounded. The storms were moving at close to 60 mph.