It's raining Lions and Tigers here right now. Lots of lightning, some hail and 60mph wind.

I hope this is as bad as it gets.

60 MPH winds aint nothing to sneeze about.........check the local Doppler real time screens dammit! You can narrow it to 20 mile radius until the power goes.

(05-31-2013, 10:45 PM)Maggot Wrote: 60 MPH winds aint nothing to sneeze about.........check the local Doppler real time screens dammit! You can narrow it to 20 mile radius until the power goes.

I know that!! That's why I said I hope it doesn't get any worse. I love this shit...I'm sitting in the Garage watching the storm roll through. The crap they're getting in Oklahoma I can do without. The radar says that shit is headed right to my house by tomorrow. It's usually a lot weaker by the time it gets to my area.

I can understand watching the weather from a garage or back yard its kinda fun, at night I might have a rough time though just because I could not see the clouds, its not a moon night tonight because I can barely see my back yard and its clear.
I think if I lived there I would have a home weather station that especially checks barometric pressure and sudden changes with a ding-ding bell.

(05-31-2013, 11:09 PM)Maggot Wrote: I think if I lived there I would have a home weather station that especially checks barometric pressure and sudden changes with a ding-ding bell.

My last weather station bit the dust & I just got the Acu-Rite 1500 from Lowes. That thing kicks ass, I'd recommend it to anyone. I turned the alarms off though, I was like Pavlov's dog, the alarm would ding & I'd go into immediate panic mode.

(05-31-2013, 08:35 PM)username Wrote: How do you go from hot weather to softball sized hail to tornadoes?

I've never seen hail that big, only golf ball size and smaller. It usually comes after days of very hot, very humid weather and a cold front is moving in. I have rarely experienced a normal thunderstorm here, they usually morph into watches/warnings. Once it starts moving in I watch the temperature, if I could will it to lower I would, the more it goes down the more it lessens my chance for severe weather. I've seen it drop 20 degrees in a matter of minutes.. I know this isn't scientific but it is my experience.

I've had tornadoes go by & hurricanes too but the worse by far were the straight line winds.

Why do some Americans choose to live in areas like tornado alley and the san andreas fault?

Its like living in “you will die here” town or “certain death” county.

In tornado alley you're going to get tornados and one day probably sooner rather than later the san andreas fault is going to crack like a breadstick and dump a large portion of California into the sea.

The native Americans seemed to know not to live in these areas, maybe when the settlers first came they thought “not a bad place and no redskins to worry about either!”

(06-01-2013, 06:19 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: Why do some Americans choose to live in areas like tornado alley and the san andreas fault?

I don't know, many of them are probably born & raised there and these storms are simply a fact of life. I'd get while the gettin' was good.

I was born here. I don't live in the worst part of Tornado ally and I'd move away if I did. A lot of the people who got hit last week are rebuilding for the third time or more. Fuck that. That's insane to keep rebuilding in the same place. There's no where to live without being effected by some kind of weather.

True but the worst I've got to worry about here are cold northerly breezes and occasionally unseasonal rain. If I faced the constant threat of hurricanes or tornados or I was living on a major fault line in the Earths crust I would have moved away frigging years ago.

Plus a lot of the San Andreas fault is frigging gorgeous every other part of the time. California is some of the most naturally spectacular land around, and they don't let a couple occasional earthquakes ruin that. To be honest, the building codes are so strict and quake-resistant, the death tolls from the worst California quakes are in the tens and twenties, when other countries like Mexico etc can suffer losses in the hundreds and thousands.

If you pitched a tent on the fault and it went you would probably be safe. Its the buildings, gas lines, electrical shit and bridges that get you. That and the insurance companies.

Irony -



A Mom & her baby were killed while trying to flee the tornado -



Sheltering under the convention center -

(06-01-2013, 09:17 PM)Donovan Wrote: Plus a lot of the San Andreas fault is frigging gorgeous every other part of the time. California is some of the most naturally spectacular land around, and they don't let a couple occasional earthquakes ruin that. To be honest, the building codes are so strict and quake-resistant, the death tolls from the worst California quakes are in the tens and twenties, when other countries like Mexico etc can suffer losses in the hundreds and thousands.

California hasn't even had “the big one” yet, nowhere near in fact. When it does we will see just how effective those “building codes” are against a quake 9+ on the Richter scale because that's what California is looking at one day, its as inevitable as day following night.

So enjoy that “gorgeous” land while you still can its going to be a major disaster area at some point.

This is the storm system that went through Oklahoma & the mid-west, it's now headed east. I know I have a few Mockers living in the red.

(06-02-2013, 07:35 AM)Cynical Ninja Wrote:

(06-01-2013, 09:17 PM)Donovan Wrote: Plus a lot of the San Andreas fault is frigging gorgeous every other part of the time. California is some of the most naturally spectacular land around, and they don't let a couple occasional earthquakes ruin that. To be honest, the building codes are so strict and quake-resistant, the death tolls from the worst California quakes are in the tens and twenties, when other countries like Mexico etc can suffer losses in the hundreds and thousands.

California hasn't even had “the big one” yet, nowhere near in fact. When it does we will see just how effective those “building codes” are against a quake 9+ on the Richter scale because that's what California is looking at one day, its as inevitable as day following night.

So enjoy that “gorgeous” land while you still can its going to be a major disaster area at some point.

I'm not being a negative nelly just being truthfull. There is a difference between being positive and sticking your head in the sand.

When the big one hits property values in the area are gonna suck.

(06-02-2013, 01:10 PM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: I'm not being a negative nelly just being truthfull. There is a difference between being positive and sticking your head in the sand.

When the big one hits property values in the area are gonna suck.

It was that last sentence about "enjoying while you can" that made me think of Debbie Downer not so much the "truthful" part.

I feel comfortable at home but yeah, I get the jitters on bridges and when I (rarely) visit skyscrapers and such in San Francisco.

My old office building was a 3 story wood structure built right on bay water. I worked there for 9 plus years on the second floor and many days I thought if the big one hit while I was at work, we were all going to get flattened. I was stuck in traffic on a freeway when the bay bridge collapsed (different freeway, thankfully). It's definitely an odd sensation when your car suddenly feels like a boat on the water.

Well let's be honest, after the big one hits its not going to be an area of outstanding natural beauty anymore is it? Let's face it.