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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:19 PM
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Tornado in Topeka!
Bad rainfall and lots of hail also. Tornado just spotted. Storm moving towards Lawrence.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:22 PM
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1. Deleted
Edited on Thu Jun-12-08 06:41 PM by terrya
Insensitive post. I apologize.

I hope everyone in Topeka is ok.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:24 PM
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2. As much as I despise Fred Phelps...
I don't wish a tornado on anyone.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:26 PM
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4. Deleted
Edited on Thu Jun-12-08 06:41 PM by terrya
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:25 PM
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3. God's judgement against Wesboro Baptist Church!
Hey, I figure that if Disneyland's Gay Days or New Orlean's Southern Decadence are worth hurricanes, then certainly WBC is worth a tornado or two. Or three or four, if we're lucky.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:32 PM
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5. A lot of good people live in Topeka.
If you want them to suffer, then go fuck yourself.
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:39 PM
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8. A lot of good people lived in New Orleans, too
That didn't prevent the Talibangelicals like Pat Robertson or the fringe extremist nutters like Phelch from proclaiming that Katrina was God's judgement against sin. I say: if it is sauce for the goose then it is sauce for the gander, too.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:52 PM
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13. So you seek to emulate the behavior of those scumbags?
That's smart.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:34 PM
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6. One of our best DUers lives in Topeka
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:36 PM
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7. Not to mention one of the best governors in the country.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:51 PM
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12. you have that right
.
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Telly Savalas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:54 PM
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14. But according to the poster above she deserves to die in a tornado
because of remarks made by people who have probably never even set foot in Topeka.
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:57 PM
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16. Stop telling lies
Show me where I said ANYONE should die in a tornado.
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Shoelace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:40 PM
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9. 9 tornadoes today so far, 58 yesterday!
my God, I can't believe it. The folks on Weather Channel can't either.
NOAA's Severe Weather/Storm reports page is here so you can check back on other days to see what has happened in this area. There were 70+ tornadoes in the same areas just a few days ago!! I wouldn't wish this weather on anybody and have learned the hard way that the one time I did, it came back and hit me square in my own backyard.
I think they call that instant Karma?

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/

Here's yesterday's weather graph which includes large hail, severe winds:
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:49 PM
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10. in between wall clouds
A sighting at the intersection by my house.I have pictures. It came right over us. We could hear it. I have to go check the barn before the next warning;
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:00 PM
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17. Stay safe Muse!!
:hug:
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:06 PM
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19. is it coming your way?
We have no sat at the moment. Using my blackberry to find out what I can. It looks very dark again and the trees are doing a low hula! We are going to be flooded out again.

Be safe. This is a very nasty storm and I love storms.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:40 PM
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25. Looks like it might be
But also could swing north.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:50 PM
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11. Good luck and stay safe
we are in a watch...it is getting cloudy and has been VERY humid all day
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 06:57 PM
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15. there is a photo
On the WIBW site taken from Forbes field. That is what came over us. The photo was taken pointing at my house about 2 miles away.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:03 PM
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18. Whoa! Topeka was hit once before, too. Way too many tornadoes. Thanks, proud2Blib. n/t
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:12 PM
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20. just lost two trees
To lightning. Boom Boom right outside the window. Rats.

This is kinda fun blogging the storm.
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:24 PM
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22. you okay?
it has gotten REALLY dark in the last 20 minutes


called daughter and told her she had to come home from the Y right this very minute
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:10 PM
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27. It was very dark
but now it is light and the darkness has moved on to the East. That was a hairy storm but aren't they all? Very electric and loud. I hope you all are OK down there.

It was so humid that this morning at 70 degrees I was soaking wet unloading hay. It should have been nice but wow, it was hard to breathe.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:20 PM
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30. The sky right before we went to the basement, yes it was dark!
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:28 PM
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23. Damn it! Didn't you loose a couple last month?
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:15 PM
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28. I have a lot of trees
thankfully. Big old trees that you hate to lose but I have lots of them that I have kept to for several small woods on the place. I don't know yet how badly they suffered, there is a river running between me and them that does not belong there! It will go down by tomorrow morning. Weeeeee! I love storms.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:18 PM
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21. I'm beginning to think hurricanes are OK
Damn when will this stop??

In real terms what does this mean for supermarket shopping, work, kid's activities?

Stay safe and try not to get depressed about this awful weather.
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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 07:31 PM
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24. Keep your heads down

But keep your head above the follow up flooding.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:06 PM
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26. Photo taken from 2 miles NE
looking SW. This is what came directly over our house. Was reported to ?touchdown? at the intersection 1/4 mile from our house. I don't see any indication from here that it actually touched down but then I have not been out yet.

Looks like we are in the clear now. We heard that sucker as it went over. Scary. We were lucky. Much flooding around here and up in Topeka. If anyone is interested in pictures I took as it was coming in let me know. I have not looked at them yet and they were from the camera in my phone so they might be crappy but I stayed on top of the house until it got too windy.
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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-13-08 11:16 AM
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32. OMG!!!!!!
:scared: You guys are NUTZ!!!!!! :silly:

I'm happy to hear you still have your house!!! :wow:
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:17 PM
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29. Warning for parts of Kansas City. Be safe Proud!
Let us know when it is over how you are.
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:31 PM
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31. One more picture then I will stop.
I do this because I love the storms. I did not take this. It was taken a couple of blocks from my house. They are just such amazing things but I fear I am only entertaining myself here. Last one, I promise.

PROUD! Let us know when you are out of danger!
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