Well we had about 90 seconds of really strong winds and driving rain. The sirens were going off and they had us under a tornado warning, but by the time we got into the bar in the basement, it was gone.
Well we had about 90 seconds of really strong winds and driving rain. The sirens were going off and they had us under a tornado warning, but by the time we got into the bar in the basement, it was gone.
All is well in Bowling Green... Lots of wind, but that's normal here. Apparently a tornado in Rossford, basically on the outskirts of Toledo.
Just north of Nashville now tornado warning just to the NE of us. Thin line of storms moving through.
all good in C-bus. i guess carol had some nasty wind, (just S of c-bus, but nothing horrific...
-J0N
Bloomington, IL checking in here... about 30 miles away, a tornado just about destroyed Washington, IL. The girlfriend, in Peoria Heights, was thankfully at her parents house in the Chicago Suburbs. I was at the ice rink in Bloomington reffing a couple hockey games, we had a 30 minute delay and were hunkered down in the locker rooms for the warning to pass. When I got done with the games, it was beautiful, albeit windy out. I had the top down in the Miata. Power was out from about noon (estimated) to 7 at my house.
The wind took off the roof of an apartment I lived in a few years ago. This is about 4 miles away from where I live now:
This was Washington. It is a small town, I've been through it a time or two, meaning I've probably been past here. No idea where that is now though.
North on 75, in KY now, rain is all so far. We are towing the.challenge car to Ohio.
got hammered with 70+mph wind for 3 minutes. calmed down to 30 with gusts around 50 now, supposed to be like this all night. nothing major. tornado 30 miles south. all i can see is a branch down on my wife's buick but doubt it hurt anything. i'm more concerned about the giant maple tree 5 feet from the front door that dropped a branch through the roof in wind like this last fall.
I just realized this--my hockey game (again, reffing) was cancelled for reffing tonight, and I had just assumed it was because of closed roads. Nope, visiting team was Washington, the town that was hammered by the tornado.
StL got the squall line as the storm was building strength, it seems. Some power outages around the city and I heard a truck got blown over on the bridge on one of the bridges across the Mississippi. My neighborhood only got a sudden burst of about 60mph wind a blowing rain, then 5 minutes later it was blue skies without a cloud in sight - still 40mph winds, though. Very strange.
JFX001 wrote: Central Ohio just has some wind and rain.
HAH.
I drove in a big 550 mile circle today. OH-PA-WV-OH. Around 3pm-ish, I was on I-70/I-470 through PA, crossing WV, and into OH. The winds were BRUTAL. Like, car felt sketchy and I made uncommanded half-lane changes. Like, at 75mph, the rain spray from cars was going at a right angle.
The part that had ME worried was the winds were going north. That never happens unless the E36 M3 is about to hit the fan.
In downtown-ish Columbus around 8pm, the tornado sirens were going off. "Oooh, it's odd to hear those in November."
Nearly got blown off the road a couple times on 71 around 10:30ish. The weird part is that the strong winds seem to stay in one place. Like, I'd see the car ahead of me jump a half car width to the right, then when I crossed that spot, WHAM. The side winds now were strong enough to make my hood bang against the pins, too. But, at least the wind was coming from the correct direction. At the roads were mildly bent instead of the whoop-de-do twisty turny rollercoasters in PA and WV...
Its blowing like mad here, but I've still got power.
And now we have the wind here, too. It's occasionally howling over the rooftops about half as bad as when Sandy's tail flicked us.
Weather Underground shows 29mph wind with gusts to 40 or so.
We are getting some serious stuff here in western PA. My temporary pipe-and-tarp garage was very effectively relocated and my neighbor's boat was flipped off its trailer, but it seems to be a quick gust and now its done.
Just a few minutes of heavy rain and wind in western Ohio, nothing worth noting.
Dayton OH- we had two bits of heavy rain/wind for 10 minutes each. Tornado sirens. then it was over. Not before both the news and a friend of mine assaulted me with dire warnings all berkeleying day. He's one of those certified weather spotters and takes this E36 M3 reaaal serious.
I didn't even lose any limbs from the dead tree in the front yard. That's pretty lame.
We actually had a little flooding, garbage cans blown all over the place, and some limbs down in my neck of the woods. Nothing serious, of course, but it was certainly trying. The weather guys on the teevee, though, were having the time of their lives.
Lebanon, IN. Tornado passed 5 miles straight across from the house. Everything went north or south of us. Still windy. Had 60mph winds yesterday afternoon for some time.
Meanwhile, in Alexandria, IN
A man with a beard threatens mother nature, town was spared.
I effin love this state. 
We are running on a generator. The storm took down a big pine in my front yard. The main electric line for the road is under it. The top of the pole to my house is broken and the transformer appears to be in at least 2 chunks.
Jerry wrote: Not before both the news and a friend of mine assaulted me with dire warnings all berkeleying day. He's one of those certified weather spotters and takes this E36 M3 reaaal serious.
My cousin has be a spotter for a little over a year now and when she started blowing up my phone at 6:30 am yesterday, I proceeded to go off on her.
I've been dealing with severe weather all my life living in the country. I don't need to be told repeatedly like I'm a second grader that I have to get in the basement. I take weather seriously. I'm not an idiot, thanks.
In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:
Those who grew up/live in the country are rarely victims of these things.....
The tri-state tornado is the only exception to that statement I can find.
Cincinnati: 2 hours of wall to wall TV coverage on 4 major networks for a Storm that never occurred.
yamaha wrote: In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid: Those who grew up/live in the country are rarely victims of these things..... The tri-state tornado is the only exception to that statement I can find.
+1. I've seen my fair share of twisters that came REALLY close (within 1/2 mile) of hitting us over the years. I've lived in this state my entire life. If, after almost 38 years, I don't know what to expect than I should probably just get out of the gene pool. Wait... I already did. snip-snip.
Everything was alright where I live in NW Toledo, but I work in Perrysburg, just SE of I-80/I-75. Storm hit around 5:30PM while I was at work, everyone was told to go to the middle of the store while the storm passed. Lost power at about 5:45PM, generator kicked on, and we were the only place that I could see in P-burg that had power until I left work at 7:30PM. Not sure how long people in that area didn't have power for. Seemed like nearly everyone south/east of the Maumee river didn't have power. People came in around 6PM until closing like moths to a flame, nearly wiping out our flashlights, batteries, sumps/battery backups, etc. I think we sold out of generators in that last hour the store was open. Only other storm damage I saw was a big tree down on some power lines across from my parent's neighborhood near the western edge of Sylvania.
Bobzilla wrote: Lebanon, IN. Tornado passed 5 miles straight across from the house. Everything went north or south of us. Still windy. Had 60mph winds yesterday afternoon for some time.
Do you know of any damage on the north side of town? I've got and aunt and uncle who live off W250N.
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