Sabres Fan in NS Posted May 8, 2018 Report Posted May 8, 2018 wut. Big wind storms that knocked down huge trees and power in Ontario and Québec and terrible flooding in New Brunswick. Quote
Doohicksie Posted October 21, 2019 Report Posted October 21, 2019 Tornado touched down in Dallas yesterday during the Cowboys game. Kind of weird to be showing the game, then switching to local weather coverage during breaks (no commercials). I heard Tyler Seguin of the Dallas Stars had heavy damage to his home. The tornado track which was 16 miles long went through a heavily populated area north of downtown. No reports of deaths; three taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Quote
Lanny Posted October 21, 2019 Report Posted October 21, 2019 I saw the photos of Seguin's house on twitter. He stated no one was living in it at the time he has moved and it's currently on the market. The house was destroyed. Quote
Doohicksie Posted October 21, 2019 Report Posted October 21, 2019 (edited) This is the one. Edited October 21, 2019 by Doohickie 1 Quote
MattPie Posted October 22, 2019 Report Posted October 22, 2019 11 hours ago, Doohickie said: This is the one. The after has a very Gone with the Wind feel to it for some reason. Quote
SwampD Posted October 22, 2019 Report Posted October 22, 2019 6 minutes ago, MattPie said: The after has a very Gone with the Wind feel to it for some reason. Absolutely. That sky is intense. Quote
josie Posted October 24, 2019 Report Posted October 24, 2019 My good friend lives in Cloverdale, CA. He currently has his car packed, ready to go- the Kincaid Fire that exploded overnight is 10 miles south of him. His wife works at a winery 5 miles south of the fire. The highway is single lane either way right now and I'm just hoping they don't get cut off from each other. He can see the fires over the next hill, and says there are firefighters wandering around his street, setting up stations to fight if necessary. I'm absolutely terrified for them. Wind is gusting up to 80mph and it's dryyyy dry dry. He says it's "very disaster movie". I grew up with tornadoes, but there's something insidious about a firestorm. A hurricane is horrifying, but man... I think a wildfire might scare me more. I'll take the great lake blizzards. You couldn't pay me to live in CA. Quote
darksabre Posted October 24, 2019 Report Posted October 24, 2019 2 minutes ago, josie said: My good friend lives in Cloverdale, CA. He currently has his car packed, ready to go- the Kincaid Fire that exploded overnight is 10 miles south of him. His wife works at a winery 5 miles south of the fire. The highway is single lane either way right now and I'm just hoping they don't get cut off from each other. He can see the fires over the next hill, and says there are firefighters wandering around his street, setting up stations to fight if necessary. I'm absolutely terrified for them. Wind is gusting up to 80mph and it's dryyyy dry dry. He says it's "very disaster movie". I grew up with tornadoes, but there's something insidious about a firestorm. A hurricane is horrifying, but man... I think a wildfire might scare me more. I'll take the great lake blizzards. You couldn't pay me to live in CA. They might as well just leave. Why wait for the evacuation order if you can see the fire? Quote
josie Posted October 24, 2019 Report Posted October 24, 2019 Just now, darksabre said: They might as well just leave. Why wait for the evacuation order if you can see the fire? Because right now there's fires everywhere and you can see fires everywhere. Quote
darksabre Posted October 24, 2019 Report Posted October 24, 2019 23 minutes ago, josie said: Because right now there's fires everywhere and you can see fires everywhere. That sounds even worse! Quote
Tondas Posted October 24, 2019 Report Posted October 24, 2019 7 hours ago, josie said: My good friend lives in Cloverdale, CA. He currently has his car packed, ready to go- the Kincaid Fire that exploded overnight is 10 miles south of him. His wife works at a winery 5 miles south of the fire. The highway is single lane either way right now and I'm just hoping they don't get cut off from each other. He can see the fires over the next hill, and says there are firefighters wandering around his street, setting up stations to fight if necessary. I'm absolutely terrified for them. Wind is gusting up to 80mph and it's dryyyy dry dry. He says it's "very disaster movie". I grew up with tornadoes, but there's something insidious about a firestorm. A hurricane is horrifying, but man... I think a wildfire might scare me more. I'll take the great lake blizzards. You couldn't pay me to live in CA. I lived through Katrina in New Orleans. You're right about wildfires. They are fast moving and unpredictable. At least with hurricanes, you usually get several days notice to evacuate. Not so with wildfires, earthquakes, tornados. Quote
pi2000 Posted October 25, 2019 Report Posted October 25, 2019 (edited) I'll take an occasional shake and a few weeks of fire weather over a guaranteed 5 months of Buffalo winter. Edited October 25, 2019 by pi2000 Quote
SwampD Posted October 25, 2019 Report Posted October 25, 2019 7 hours ago, pi2000 said: I'll take an occasional shake and a few weeks of fire weather over a guaranteed 5 months of Buffalo winter. No way. 1 Quote
darksabre Posted October 25, 2019 Report Posted October 25, 2019 7 hours ago, pi2000 said: I'll take an occasional shake and a few weeks of fire weather over a guaranteed 5 months of Buffalo winter. We always knew you were crazy, but this proves it lol 1 1 Quote
ubkev Posted November 1, 2019 Report Posted November 1, 2019 (edited) On 10/25/2019 at 1:38 AM, pi2000 said: I'll take an occasional shake and a few weeks of fire weather over a guaranteed 5 months of Buffalo winter. But, like, winter is the best season.... -----------------------------------------------post merge Oneida county has some pretty bad flooding going on right now. I don't remember that happening ever in my life growing up there. In the past 2 years they've had 2 evacuations. Edited November 1, 2019 by ubkev Quote
Marions Piazza Posted November 1, 2019 Report Posted November 1, 2019 I joined the military in 2004 and have moved around the country quite a bit and dealt with all sorts of natural disasters. I lived in Ohio from 04-08 and nothing too bad other than nasty wind and midwest cold. I lived in VA for 3 years and other than some really nasty snowstorms in 08-11 it wasn't worse than Buffalo snow storms, except VA doesn't know how to deal with it like back home and stores would be closed for days if a foot of snow fell. I spent 4 years in California and went through a lot. Flooding from so much winter rain the first year to severe drought the next three years, wild fires were so close that ash was falling and it smelled like a campfire for weeks at a time, been through a few earthquakes as well. Spent time in TX, flash flooding, severe thunderstorms with nasty hail happened all the time. I have now lived back in Dayton OH since 2016 and nothing can compare (for me anyway) to the Memorial Day 2019 tornadoes late at night. We had something like 15 confirmed touch downs. I was in bed at 1030 and couldn't sleep because there was so much thunder and lightning, my wife came running into the room saying the tornado sirens were going off, grabbed the kids and my dog and went into the basement. we have a walkout basement so not fully underground but good enough. An F4 went by our neighborhood, within a quarter mile, it was so loud and my house was shaking, things kept hitting my basement door and i was legit terrified. fortunately it barely missed us but other neighborhoods weren't so lucky. Whole neighborhoods and businesses were destroyed throughout the area because there were so many tornadoes. Amazingly only one person died. an 80 year old man sleeping in bed had a car thrown into his house. there has been a tornado here every year since I moved here in 2016 and they have been getting worse. we had several close calls. Quote
ubkev Posted November 1, 2019 Report Posted November 1, 2019 @Marions Piazza ***** that! I'll just live in my mountains and enjoy my winters. Well, I'll enjoy them while we still have them. 2 1 Quote
Marions Piazza Posted November 1, 2019 Report Posted November 1, 2019 10 minutes ago, ubkev said: @Marions Piazza ***** that! I'll just live in my mountains and enjoy my winters. Well, I'll enjoy them while we still have them. once the zombie Apocalypse happens, you'll be nice and safe in those mountains. I read they don't like cold and walk very clumsily, so mountains are the place to be! 1 Quote
ubkev Posted November 1, 2019 Report Posted November 1, 2019 Just now, Marions Piazza said: once the zombie Apocalypse happens, you'll be nice and safe in those mountains. I read they don't like cold and walk very clumsily, so mountains are the place to be! I'll be headed north to my home turf when that happens. Colder, bigger mountains, more snow. I could out last them in the heart of the Adirondacks. No problem! 1 Quote
Doohicksie Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 Yay. We're under a tornado warning. I'll let you know how things go. Quote
Doohicksie Posted January 10, 2020 Report Posted January 10, 2020 Yay. We're under a tornado warning. I'll let you know how things go. I hate tornado sirens. Quote
Doohicksie Posted January 11, 2020 Report Posted January 11, 2020 I think it's past us now. This storm produced ping pong ball size hail. Quote
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