OH MY GOSH people! UGH. TWO of my friends were in peril! What a terrifying story! I have been through enough of that crap in Texas to know those sounds all to well. Can I call an act of nature "crap?" It's a false masculine way of expressing my inner angst that you all were in danger. :) Back to the point, Cindy, hurricanes are like hours and hours of non-stop worry and prayer. It's like a tornado that just keeps coming and getting stronger and stronger and won't leave. That said, they are not as random and quick as tornados. They are two different beasts but both are their own special kind of threat. Well, hurricanes do spin off tornados... :-/ We need a tornado nazi, "NO more storms for you!"
LuCindy
· 3 years ago
Kurt--We heard on the news last night that Bentonville (or parts of it) was getting softball sized hail. Often when thunderstorms/tornados are in the area, I pray as I'm newswatching, for the people beneath them. Honestly, I don't remember if I prayed for you folks in Bentonville or not, but now that I know you're there, I will. :) So glad you and yours were unharmed. Randy--If you find it comforting, go right ahead with your act of nature beration. It's a guy thing. I understand. :) So...hurricanes are bigger and longer and add flood damage, but also give you time to know they're coming and get out of the way. Tornados can literally get you while you sleep and are less predictable, but are shorter in duration (although a destroyed house is still a destroyed house) and have a smaller path of destruction. I'll still take the tornados. :)
Kurt Wayne
· 3 years ago
Randy, The tornado which went through Bentonville, AR last night went right over my house. It came from a gorgeous, moonlit supercell with a scalloped anvil that had lightning "zits" (as the storm chasers call them) crawling constantly on it...I remember telling my daughter how majestic God created even things like supercell thunderstorms. The thing looked like it would drop its payload directly on us, but the TV meteorologists were unsure. Just as they were saying it was about 10 miles away the power went out. We put the kids in our bedroom closets for shelter with their pets. I told my wife to get in the bathtub. I was going to join her but I couldn't resist looking through the front window. When I did, I saw three stalactite looking clouds bunched together what appeared about 1/2-3/4 miles south of us. Then I saw a power flash or two from exploding lines/transformers (telltale tornado sign) THEN I saw square chunks of debris spinning aloft around the area of the Wal-Mart technology center, and I was off to the tub myself. I seemed to hear things hitting our house, though not hard. I thought I heard a small "clang" like a hailstone (we got no stones but the storm was a big hailer to our north and west). The house seemed to shake slightly...I was praying to God (as was my son in his shelter). Then I heard an odd "HISSSSsssss....HIISSSSSSssss..." I don't know if these were secondary tornadic vortices or suction spots. At the time I started thinking of an old "Star Trek" episode where Captain Kirk and his crew kept hearing buzzing noises which turned out to be alien people moving and talking at incredible speed. After the last "hiss" everything got dead quiet...the low had just passed over us. When I saw that the danger appeared to be past, I watched the wall cloud recede off to the northeast amid lightning bolts and power flashes. Then all the neighbors started coming out. Our neighbor to the west had a hole in his roof and his children's playset was smashed. To the north, our neighbors had missing shingles and broken fences. To the east, our neigbhor's roof had been scoured to the wood (on OUR side of his roof) and the backglass of his van was smashed...the top of a street sign had careened across the block and was sitting next to his garage door. To the south, our neighbors had the circular rim of a broken trampoline set down right over their sapling in their front yard, and their hot tub had been lifted then dropped. Fences were missing everywhere, and some had windows, walls and ceiling parts missing, too. It looks like our house proper sustained no damage, nor did our vehicles. Our outside air-conditioning unit may have been damaged, but if that's all that happened I'll take it. Best of all, our family, and pets, are all safe. The moral of my story? Prayer works...
Grumpy Teacher
· 3 years ago
The night was certainly eventful. I'm pretty sleep deprived today. We all are, I think. Otherwise, we're okay. Whew.
Grumpy Teacher
· 3 years ago
The night was certainly eventful. I'm pretty sleep deprived today. We all are, I think. Otherwise, we're okay.
Whew.
LuCindy
· 3 years ago
No, not our house. THAT house is one that had just been rebuilt after being flattened by the May 4, 2003 series of tornados went through. This round followed the same path, and the poor guy who owned that house said he won't be rebuilding in that area again. We watched an interview with him while waiting for that same storm to get to us last night. Ah, the wonders of modern technology. :)
Thank you VERY much for the prayers, Randy. If you want to keep them going lightly throughout the spring, we won't be unappreciative. Tornado weather is just starting here in the Ozarks and such storms will likely not be uncommon for the next two months or so. You get hurricanes. We get tornados. As bad as last night was, I think I'll still take the tornados. :)
Kurt Wayne
· 3 years ago
Randy,
The tornado which went through Bentonville, AR last night went right over my house.
It came from a gorgeous, moonlit supercell with a scalloped anvil that had lightning "zits" (as the storm chasers call them) crawling constantly on it...I remember telling my daughter how majestic God created even things like supercell thunderstorms. The thing looked like it would drop its payload directly on us, but the TV meteorologists were unsure. Just as they were saying it was about 10 miles away the power went out.
We put the kids in our bedroom closets for shelter with their pets. I told my wife to get in the bathtub. I was going to join her but I couldn't resist looking through the front window. When I did, I saw three stalactite looking clouds bunched together what appeared about 1/2-3/4 miles south of us. Then I saw a power flash or two from exploding lines/transformers (telltale tornado sign) THEN I saw square chunks of debris spinning aloft around the area of the Wal-Mart technology center, and I was off to the tub myself.
I seemed to hear things hitting our house, though not hard. I thought I heard a small "clang" like a hailstone (we got no stones but the storm was a big hailer to our north and west). The house seemed to shake slightly...I was praying to God (as was my son in his shelter). Then I heard an odd "HISSSSsssss....HIISSSSSSssss..." I don't know if these were secondary tornadic vortices or suction spots. At the time I started thinking of an old "Star Trek" episode where Captain Kirk and his crew kept hearing buzzing noises which turned out to be alien people moving and talking at incredible speed.
After the last "hiss" everything got dead quiet...the low had just passed over us. When I saw that the danger appeared to be past, I watched the wall cloud recede off to the northeast amid lightning bolts and power flashes.
Then all the neighbors started coming out. Our neighbor to the west had a hole in his roof and his children's playset was smashed. To the north, our neighbors had missing shingles and broken fences. To the east, our neigbhor's roof had been scoured to the wood (on OUR side of his roof) and the backglass of his van was smashed...the top of a street sign had careened across the block and was sitting next to his garage door. To the south, our neighbors had the circular rim of a broken trampoline set down right over their sapling in their front yard, and their hot tub had been lifted then dropped. Fences were missing everywhere, and some had windows, walls and ceiling parts missing, too.
It looks like our house proper sustained no damage, nor did our vehicles. Our outside air-conditioning unit may have been damaged, but if that's all that happened I'll take it. Best of all, our family, and pets, are all safe.
The moral of my story? Prayer works...
Randy
· 3 years ago
OH MY GOSH people! UGH. TWO of my friends were in peril! What a terrifying story! I have been through enough of that crap in Texas to know those sounds all to well.
Can I call an act of nature "crap?" It's a false masculine way of expressing my inner angst that you all were in danger.
:)
Back to the point, Cindy, hurricanes are like hours and hours of non-stop worry and prayer. It's like a tornado that just keeps coming and getting stronger and stronger and won't leave. That said, they are not as random and quick as tornados. They are two different beasts but both are their own special kind of threat. Well, hurricanes do spin off tornados...
:-/ We need a tornado nazi, "NO more storms for you!"
LuCindy
· 3 years ago
Kurt--We heard on the news last night that Bentonville (or parts of it) was getting softball sized hail. Often when thunderstorms/tornados are in the area, I pray as I'm newswatching, for the people beneath them. Honestly, I don't remember if I prayed for you folks in Bentonville or not, but now that I know you're there, I will. :) So glad you and yours were unharmed.
Randy--If you find it comforting, go right ahead with your act of nature beration. It's a guy thing. I understand. :)
So...hurricanes are bigger and longer and add flood damage, but also give you time to know they're coming and get out of the way. Tornados can literally get you while you sleep and are less predictable, but are shorter in duration (although a destroyed house is still a destroyed house) and have a smaller path of destruction.
I'll still take the tornados. :)
Kurt Wayne
· 3 years ago
Thanks, all! LuCindy, thanks for the prayers...we got NO hail, and (while waiting for word from our estimator) virtually NO damage save possibly to our air conditioning unit (which won't be needed for awhile now with cooler weather coming in) while a mile away (photo courtesy of CNN(!)).... They're saying now that the tornado which hit near our store and around our house may have been an F3...only 6% of all tornadoes are F3 or greater... Whew! (And, Randy, you're right...to paraphrase Him, it comes like a thief in the night...)
Randy
· 3 years ago
Cool, I am glad you encourage the embracing of my inner red-neck child crap. Your comment reminds me of when I told that Californian lady that I prefer hurricanes to earthquakes because in a hurricane you just get blown across land, in an earthquake you get swallowed up in it!
As if we get to be picky about doom ... :)
Kurt Wayne
· 3 years ago
Thanks, all!
LuCindy, thanks for the prayers...we got NO hail, and (while waiting for word from our estimator) virtually NO damage save possibly to our air conditioning unit (which won't be needed for awhile now with cooler weather coming in) while a mile away (photo courtesy of CNN(!)).... They're saying now that the tornado which hit near our store and around our house may have been an F3...only 6% of all tornadoes are F3 or greater...
Whew! (And, Randy, you're right...to paraphrase Him, it comes like a thief in the night...)
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Can I call an act of nature "crap?" It's a false masculine way of expressing my inner angst that you all were in danger.
:)
Back to the point, Cindy, hurricanes are like hours and hours of non-stop worry and prayer. It's like a tornado that just keeps coming and getting stronger and stronger and won't leave. That said, they are not as random and quick as tornados. They are two different beasts but both are their own special kind of threat. Well, hurricanes do spin off tornados...
:-/ We need a tornado nazi, "NO more storms for you!"
Randy--If you find it comforting, go right ahead with your act of nature beration. It's a guy thing. I understand. :)
So...hurricanes are bigger and longer and add flood damage, but also give you time to know they're coming and get out of the way. Tornados can literally get you while you sleep and are less predictable, but are shorter in duration (although a destroyed house is still a destroyed house) and have a smaller path of destruction.
I'll still take the tornados. :)
The tornado which went through Bentonville, AR last night went right over my house.
It came from a gorgeous, moonlit supercell with a scalloped anvil that had lightning "zits" (as the storm chasers call them) crawling constantly on it...I remember telling my daughter how majestic God created even things like supercell thunderstorms. The thing looked like it would drop its payload directly on us, but the TV meteorologists were unsure. Just as they were saying it was about 10 miles away the power went out.
We put the kids in our bedroom closets for shelter with their pets. I told my wife to get in the bathtub. I was going to join her but I couldn't resist looking through the front window. When I did, I saw three stalactite looking clouds bunched together what appeared about 1/2-3/4 miles south of us. Then I saw a power flash or two from exploding lines/transformers (telltale tornado sign) THEN I saw square chunks of debris spinning aloft around the area of the Wal-Mart technology center, and I was off to the tub myself.
I seemed to hear things hitting our house, though not hard. I thought I heard a small "clang" like a hailstone (we got no stones but the storm was a big hailer to our north and west). The house seemed to shake slightly...I was praying to God (as was my son in his shelter). Then I heard an odd "HISSSSsssss....HIISSSSSSssss..." I don't know if these were secondary tornadic vortices or suction spots. At the time I started thinking of an old "Star Trek" episode where Captain Kirk and his crew kept hearing buzzing noises which turned out to be alien people moving and talking at incredible speed.
After the last "hiss" everything got dead quiet...the low had just passed over us. When I saw that the danger appeared to be past, I watched the wall cloud recede off to the northeast amid lightning bolts and power flashes.
Then all the neighbors started coming out. Our neighbor to the west had a hole in his roof and his children's playset was smashed. To the north, our neighbors had missing shingles and broken fences. To the east, our neigbhor's roof had been scoured to the wood (on OUR side of his roof) and the backglass of his van was smashed...the top of a street sign had careened across the block and was sitting next to his garage door. To the south, our neighbors had the circular rim of a broken trampoline set down right over their sapling in their front yard, and their hot tub had been lifted then dropped. Fences were missing everywhere, and some had windows, walls and ceiling parts missing, too.
It looks like our house proper sustained no damage, nor did our vehicles. Our outside air-conditioning unit may have been damaged, but if that's all that happened I'll take it. Best of all, our family, and pets, are all safe.
The moral of my story? Prayer works...
Whew.
Whew.
Thank you VERY much for the prayers, Randy. If you want to keep them going lightly throughout the spring, we won't be unappreciative. Tornado weather is just starting here in the Ozarks and such storms will likely not be uncommon for the next two months or so. You get hurricanes. We get tornados. As bad as last night was, I think I'll still take the tornados. :)
The tornado which went through Bentonville, AR last night went right over my house.
It came from a gorgeous, moonlit supercell with a scalloped anvil that had lightning "zits" (as the storm chasers call them) crawling constantly on it...I remember telling my daughter how majestic God created even things like supercell thunderstorms. The thing looked like it would drop its payload directly on us, but the TV meteorologists were unsure. Just as they were saying it was about 10 miles away the power went out.
We put the kids in our bedroom closets for shelter with their pets. I told my wife to get in the bathtub. I was going to join her but I couldn't resist looking through the front window. When I did, I saw three stalactite looking clouds bunched together what appeared about 1/2-3/4 miles south of us. Then I saw a power flash or two from exploding lines/transformers (telltale tornado sign) THEN I saw square chunks of debris spinning aloft around the area of the Wal-Mart technology center, and I was off to the tub myself.
I seemed to hear things hitting our house, though not hard. I thought I heard a small "clang" like a hailstone (we got no stones but the storm was a big hailer to our north and west). The house seemed to shake slightly...I was praying to God (as was my son in his shelter). Then I heard an odd "HISSSSsssss....HIISSSSSSssss..." I don't know if these were secondary tornadic vortices or suction spots. At the time I started thinking of an old "Star Trek" episode where Captain Kirk and his crew kept hearing buzzing noises which turned out to be alien people moving and talking at incredible speed.
After the last "hiss" everything got dead quiet...the low had just passed over us. When I saw that the danger appeared to be past, I watched the wall cloud recede off to the northeast amid lightning bolts and power flashes.
Then all the neighbors started coming out. Our neighbor to the west had a hole in his roof and his children's playset was smashed. To the north, our neighbors had missing shingles and broken fences. To the east, our neigbhor's roof had been scoured to the wood (on OUR side of his roof) and the backglass of his van was smashed...the top of a street sign had careened across the block and was sitting next to his garage door. To the south, our neighbors had the circular rim of a broken trampoline set down right over their sapling in their front yard, and their hot tub had been lifted then dropped. Fences were missing everywhere, and some had windows, walls and ceiling parts missing, too.
It looks like our house proper sustained no damage, nor did our vehicles. Our outside air-conditioning unit may have been damaged, but if that's all that happened I'll take it. Best of all, our family, and pets, are all safe.
The moral of my story? Prayer works...
Can I call an act of nature "crap?" It's a false masculine way of expressing my inner angst that you all were in danger.
:)
Back to the point, Cindy, hurricanes are like hours and hours of non-stop worry and prayer. It's like a tornado that just keeps coming and getting stronger and stronger and won't leave. That said, they are not as random and quick as tornados. They are two different beasts but both are their own special kind of threat. Well, hurricanes do spin off tornados...
:-/ We need a tornado nazi, "NO more storms for you!"
Randy--If you find it comforting, go right ahead with your act of nature beration. It's a guy thing. I understand. :)
So...hurricanes are bigger and longer and add flood damage, but also give you time to know they're coming and get out of the way. Tornados can literally get you while you sleep and are less predictable, but are shorter in duration (although a destroyed house is still a destroyed house) and have a smaller path of destruction.
I'll still take the tornados. :)
LuCindy, thanks for the prayers...we got NO hail, and (while waiting for word from our estimator) virtually NO damage save possibly to our air conditioning unit (which won't be needed for awhile now with cooler weather coming in) while a mile away (photo courtesy of CNN(!)).... They're saying now that the tornado which hit near our store and around our house may have been an F3...only 6% of all tornadoes are F3 or greater...
Whew! (And, Randy, you're right...to paraphrase Him, it comes like a thief in the night...)
As if we get to be picky about doom ... :)
LuCindy, thanks for the prayers...we got NO hail, and (while waiting for word from our estimator) virtually NO damage save possibly to our air conditioning unit (which won't be needed for awhile now with cooler weather coming in) while a mile away (photo courtesy of CNN(!)).... They're saying now that the tornado which hit near our store and around our house may have been an F3...only 6% of all tornadoes are F3 or greater...
Whew! (And, Randy, you're right...to paraphrase Him, it comes like a thief in the night...)