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Post by kay on Dec 27, 2012 12:37:39 GMT -5
Hope everyone survived this storm system without a lot of damage! I know a member of this forum had a tree land on the roof. Another member had wind damage to the green house. Is everyone okay?
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Post by gardencrazy on Dec 27, 2012 19:17:48 GMT -5
No storm damage here. Just a sore back from shovelling snow. We got about a foot of snow. Sorry that others didn't fare as well.
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Post by marielouise on Dec 28, 2012 23:46:54 GMT -5
This part of Texas had snow fall on Christmas Day, we had over 6 inches , daughter and family live 10 miles to the north east and they had over 18 inches close to 2 foot--- son lives to the south east of us and had between 4 and 5 inches . daughter had power outage lasted 2 or 3 days --they went to the cabin lost power there so went to the farm lost power but had a wood burning stove so stayed there til power in town was back on. Our power flickered on and off all day . Her little town had more downed trees and broken branches than over here from the snow loads especially after temps dropped to the teens and it all froze. Kids had fun!
In the years we have lived here never before saw snow on Christmas Day---- usually it comes in Jan and Feb, one year in April when the iris were blooming --- lol--- been a cold few days here. Its all melted now so its a muddy mess in some areas. We have not even left the house other than doing what needs to be done around here---feeding and such. Getting wood in and restacking some that was knocked over ---wasn't stacked properly.
Sorry for those who live with snow for any length of time . It can be a witch to deal with. and the damage it can do .
I remember being snowed in when we lived in the mountains of New Mexico, 2 weeks , couldn't get out and Daddy couldn't get back in . Our down the mountain neighbor(2 miles) came to check on us in a horse drawn sleigh once the snow froze over . No autos were moving on the road during that time .
water froze in a bucket on the way out to our chicken house, we dumped it out and finished breaking a trail then went back for more water after going inside to warm up .
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Post by garrett on Jan 8, 2013 20:47:01 GMT -5
justwet here.stay safe my friends
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Post by marielouise on Jan 17, 2013 15:55:14 GMT -5
Wet is good for Texas--- we been dry for so long any wet is welcome to stay awhile....
Everybody stay warm!
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Post by LinFL on Jan 17, 2013 17:01:16 GMT -5
I am glad to see you Texans getting some good rain. I hope you get more this growing season, too.
Thanks for being neighborly and sharing that nice cool air with us over here in Florida. With that crazy warm weather, I was beginning to worry that mosquito season would start up in January!
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Post by marielouise on Jan 19, 2013 2:43:03 GMT -5
We are sure glad to get rain !!! Shoot my brother in the Az desert was getting more than we were... Haaaaa
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Post by dirtdobber on May 21, 2013 6:24:01 GMT -5
Hope all our friends are fairing okay with all these tornadoes going on.
Saying we have a very good chance for tornadoes and massive hail here in the DFW area today. Everyone stay safe.
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Post by jillybeantx on May 22, 2013 8:31:04 GMT -5
We got lucky with the cold air outflow yesterday, DD - just wind and rain. Based on the school's early release, and the storm chasers and first responders that were "strategically placed" around town yesterday afternoon, they were truly ready for the worst. I hope the rest of you had similar results.
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Post by kay on May 22, 2013 9:58:28 GMT -5
Stay safe yall! Just a few more days left of this round.....
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2013 11:01:01 GMT -5
I do not think I would want to be on school board of Moore OK.
An' if I was, I'd want a set of shelter-in-place bunker plans in-hand for the next meeting. it still wouldn't be enough, but I want some anyways.
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Post by LinFL on May 22, 2013 11:27:33 GMT -5
No kidding, Tom. I'm sure a lot of parents expected that the schools would have safe shelter areas.
We don't get the massive F4 or F5 tornadoes AFAIK, but we get weaker tornadoes, mostly when a tropical storm or hurricane is making landfall in the region. Also, we DO need public hurricane shelters here, so many of the schools here are built to serve as hurricane shelters.
My kids' school is not a public hurricane shelter, but the interior hallways in the classroom buildings are reinforced so they can be used as storm shelters in case of a tornado (the weaker tornadoes we get here; I am sure the buildings would not hold up to an an F4 or F5) or strong thunderstorm with damaging winds. I know my kids have been hustled into the hallways a couple of times when possible rotation was spotted on radar. So far we have not had to test the buildings' strength, and I hope we never have to!
Since there aren't many basements or safe rooms in OK, it seems that the school board could solve two problems if they construct shelters when they rebuild the schools. Though they may want to construt separate shelter areas for students and for the general public if they don't want to mix the general public in with the students (child safety reasons). At the very least, I bet the school board will be building shelters for the kids and the kids will be doing tornado drills to practice getting into the shelters fast.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2013 7:59:45 GMT -5
Almost nobody gets a tornado filled with more than F-3 ginger. East of the rocky mountains that is. When the weather conditions are right they gets 'em as north as Maine & Quebec...
But all that said some places are nigh to flat enough and south enough to get visited by a Quetzaquoatle sized bully. Oklahoma City and the neighborhood seems to be so blessed.
If'n I was a school board civil servant in or about Moore OK i dunno if I could face the parents without at least a proposal in hand to forestall a "next" time.
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Post by LinFL on May 23, 2013 12:27:37 GMT -5
Agreed.
There's a whole lot of difference in construction costs needed to build for an F4 or F5 than the weaker ones, too. Given that we already have to build everything to hurricane codes here, it probably doesn't add that much to reinforce the interior hallways. But what they have to do to build shelters for those monster tomatoes is seriously expensive.
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Post by kay on May 24, 2013 6:41:05 GMT -5
Do they still do tornado drills in school?
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2013 18:37:00 GMT -5
I'd be surprised if they did not.
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Post by dirtdobber on May 25, 2013 1:48:39 GMT -5
I know as a kid growing up in Fort Worth that we did them all the time back in the late 60's I would be very surprised in Tornado Alley if it still was not a very common practice. I do remember it was only in grade school that we did this as I went to middle school 6th thru 8th grade where i grew up we did not do it after that no more drills I assume they felt as we got older we would know what to do if the command came out to seek shelter. This was a very common drill. The bad thing is tornado season lasts well after school years end down here so most kids are home.
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