Severe weather season is here

[Burdar]

I'm always paranoid about tornados and severe weather. The sirens just went off and we are in the basement. Tornado warning about 5 miles north and another 20 miles south. At least we have a basement. I'd never be comfortable living in an area that doesn't have them.

Wind is really picking up.

[Brads70]

Ya that would freak me out, I'll take the snow and cold over tornadoes any day.
Stay safe! 

[Cuda Cody]

That's scary.     Can only image how uncomfortable that must be.  Stay safe my friend and let us know when it passes.

[Burdar]

Back in 2011, 100mph straight line winds blew through. The wind was so loud we couldn't even hear the sirens. I woke up when I heard a big wind gust and saw a lot of lightening. I ran upstairs, grabbed the kid and got to the basement. That storm destroyed my 6' privacy fence and tore off a lot of shingles on the house. The ceiling a started leaking in about 5 places.

A town 10 miles away got hit pretty bad in that storm. 90% of the trees in town were split off half way up. 100mph winds for 20 minutes straight will do a lot of damage.

We are going back upstairs. It blew through really fast.

[Cuda Cody]

Scary stuff.  Glad you have a basement.   

[Timbbuc2]

Here in Alabama, its the norm, I had one to go through my sub-division several years back, it was about a 100 yards from my house. I lost a bird house my neighbors wasn't so lucky. Guess what, after that happened I built a storm pit. 10" poured concrete and re bar, will hold up to 20 people. Better to have one and not need it than to need one and not have it

[blown motor]

Glad it blew through and you're ok.

[Bullitt-]

Glad things turned out well Darren 


Guess where I live..... http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/huntsville-ala-is-the-worst-city-in-america-for-tornado-damage

[Burdar]

They are saying 70-90mph winds reported near here. It didn't get that bad at the house.

When you hear of a lot of fatalities, it's usually in an area of the country where the ground is too wet or too rocky to make a basement feasible. A tornado will strip a floor deck clean. Taking shelter in a bathtub won't do much for you in those situations.

My dad built the house I grew up in. The stoop was excavated and a concrete cap poured over it. We used it as a cellar. When bad weather hit, it was the perfect storm shelter.

[HP_Cuda]

Glad everything worked out for you.

A few years back I was visiting family in SW Michigan and had a tornado pass just 3 miles to the south of their place. Sirens were loud as heck and the wind was kicking like no tomorrow.

Oh yeah and the hail was insane too.

[Topcat]

Glad you are all safe.

There was one time in Ft. Campbell Ky. where I was stationed 81'-83'.
We went into a Tornado warning early in the morning.

I was in formation for head count of the platoons.
I vividly remember the horizon.

The most evil looking I ever saw.
This greyish green massive blob of angry energy overhead looking like God's wrath was about to evoke upon us.
The air was nothing like I had felt before.

A Tornado touched down but it  was 20 miles away that day.

[ChallengerHK]

When I first moved to Detroit, my very first night there, the wind picked up and the sirens went off. I turned on the TV to get a map of where the trouble was. Now, I'm from Virginia, and in Virginia most of the county boundaries are determined by rivers and creeks. Because of this, each county has a unique shape. In Michigan, on the other hand, the counties are all rectangles. I was looking at this map with red rectangles and orange rectangles and I thought "I'm gonna die because I can't tell which rectangle I'm in." 

[Spikedog08]

Definitely scary shit!   Basements are the place to be in that type of situation!   Glad it blew through . . . 

[303 Mopar]

Where else but Denver can you tie a record high temperature and have a blizzard warning all in the same day!

[JS29]

Where else but Denver can you tie a record high temperature and have a blizzard warning all in the same day!

Central New York!!!