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Tornadoes
« on: December 11, 2021, 08:30:26 AM »
I'm seeing some pretty significant destruction this morning across several states where I know APS members live. You guys want to check in and let us know how you're doing?
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2021, 10:26:06 AM »
Reported likely over 50 dead here in Kentucky.
I'm in the Louisville area and we got just got a bunch of wind and rain, some power lines down. They're saying at least 4 tornadoes in Ky with one on the ground for over 200 miles. Was watching that one get closer and closer but it slid to the south and faded before getting here.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2021, 10:51:45 AM »
Mayfield
https://www.wdrb.com/news/devastation-images-reveal-severe-storm-damage-in-mayfield-kentucky/article_6261c15e-5a88-11ec-a3de-93957062b84f.html

Reported there were 110 people in the candle factory there when it was hit. "Dozens" reported dead.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2021, 10:57:23 AM »
Southern part of Illinois hammered but we are north 1/3rd. Very high winds during the night and until this afternoon here. We have some branches and smaller limbs down and my barn doors were latched but banging all night. When I got on the highway a mile from the house I had to drive around a piece of roof with nails and all laying in the middle of our lane.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2021, 11:40:33 AM »
Lot of rain during the sleeping hours and now that the front passed us here between Dayton and Columbus Ohio, it’s windy as hell.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2021, 12:26:06 PM »
Very high winds in NW IN, little rain.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #6 on: December 11, 2021, 01:51:20 PM »
https://fox4kc.com/news/multiple-workers-trapped-after-collapse-at-amazon-warehouse-in-edwardsville/
2 workers killed after collapse at Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville

I guess this might be related. 
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #7 on: December 11, 2021, 02:10:30 PM »
I was watching the weather channel last night - for the first time I can remember they were showing a (mostly) red map with a very defined green dot in the red field - they said the radar was looking at the debris cloud - either vegetation or pieces of structures being sucked up into the air by an active tornado.

I'd hate to see something like that headed my way - I hope some people in the target area had enough warning from this and were able to take shelter.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #8 on: December 11, 2021, 03:32:27 PM »
Quote from: HankB on December 11, 2021, 02:10:30 PM
I was watching the weather channel last night - for the first time I can remember they were showing a (mostly) red map with a very defined green dot in the red field - they said the radar was looking at the debris cloud - either vegetation or pieces of structures being sucked up into the air by an active tornado.

I'd hate to see something like that headed my way - I hope some people in the target area had enough warning from this and were able to take shelter.

Was watching the local weather talking heads showing a radar detected debris cloud headed my way for almost 2 hours last night. One described it as the radar reflecting off stuff in the air that shouldn't be there. Yeah, it was not fun night watching that green glob get closer and closer.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2021, 03:55:23 PM »
Mayfield, KY Daylight Drone Footage Aftermath - 12/11/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9b7nsJ_M6c&t=2s
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2021, 04:20:50 PM »
With a 227 mile long ground track we may have a new record holder.

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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #11 on: December 11, 2021, 05:04:50 PM »
Oh for *expletive deleted*s's sake.

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    Sorry Kentucky. Maybe if your 2 senators hadn't spent decades blocking legislation to reduce climate change, you wouldn't be suffering from climate disasters. If it's any consolation, McConnell and Rand have f'ed over all of us, too.

    — Noel Scovell (@NellSco) December 11, 2021
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Instant Regret! Hollywood Director Says Kentucky DESERVED Disaster Because Of How They Vote!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3DgOEsYQ7U
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #12 on: December 11, 2021, 05:12:43 PM »
Yikes

Video of the tornado that went through Bremen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyxnyagzL8
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2021, 06:58:44 PM »
I remember there being a line from Tennessee up through northern Ohio back on April 3, 1974...
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2021, 07:08:41 PM »
Quote from: Bogie on December 11, 2021, 06:58:44 PM
I remember there being a line from Tennessee up through northern Ohio back on April 3, 1974...

I remember that day very well. 148 confirmed tornadoes with ~30 of them F4/F5s.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2021, 07:17:26 PM »
Now saying death toll could go over 100 in Ky
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #16 on: December 11, 2021, 07:43:44 PM »
From the videos a lot of the houses were on slabs. Not a good match for tornado ally.

It's going to be a while until they have solid numbers. After Joplin, a friend of mine took a leave to search for his daughter. It was weeks before she was found.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #17 on: December 11, 2021, 07:47:52 PM »
Wind and rain here but nothing to get excited about here in Shreveport, LA.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #18 on: December 11, 2021, 08:19:34 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on December 11, 2021, 05:12:43 PM
Yikes

Video of the tornado that went through Bremen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyxnyagzL8

There is nothing scarier than a nighttime tornado backlit by lightning.  BTDT.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2021, 08:24:15 PM »
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2021, 08:26:11 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on December 11, 2021, 08:24:15 PM
More drone views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZMAmxP5cgs

Good Lord.  If there were craters, it would look like bomb damage in Germany after WWII.
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2021, 09:43:37 PM »
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Hundreds of people are missing in Mayfield after a swarm of tornadoes ripped across the United States, killing dozens in Kentucky and neighboring states.

There were around 100 workers working at a Mayfield candle factory at the time the tornado hit the town of 9,800. Only 40 people had been rescued as of early Saturday morning.
https://www.wave3.com/2021/12/12/search-rescue-efforts-continue-after-tornado-strikes-mayfield/
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2021, 09:50:27 PM »

Joe Biden thinks a Hurricane hit Kentucky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbk8WGUcCmQ&t=48s
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2021, 10:26:03 PM »
12-11-2021 Dawson Springs, Ky destroyed by massive tornado- drone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzoSADijLCQ
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Re: Tornadoes
« Reply #24 on: December 12, 2021, 11:27:53 AM »
Quote from: Jim147 on December 11, 2021, 07:43:44 PM
From the videos a lot of the houses were on slabs. Not a good match for tornado ally.

It's going to be a while until they have solid numbers. After Joplin, a friend of mine took a leave to search for his daughter. It was weeks before she was found.
What common home construction would be better?  I know there are designs that are resistant, but those are normally more expensive.  I guess the question would be what is better that subdivisions are likely to see.

Down here, everyone builds on a slab and 3 to 5 feet up on a pad to avoid flooding.  Tornadoes aren't exactly rare, but hurricanes and flooding happen a lot more. 
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