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On 7/24/2018 at 6:26 AM, Doohickie said:

Cold front came through yesterday.  It's supposed to get up to only 98 today.

We have yet to hit 90 this year.

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27 minutes ago, JJFIVEOH said:

We have yet to hit 90 this year.

That's very surprising.  We've been there at least 6 times already in Ra-cha-cha.  Would've figured you'd easily top that in the Carolinas.

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It was 87 at midnight this morning.  It's 72 now.  The rain finally broke through.  When I was driving to work there were 30-40 mph winds out of the north.  Weird.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Taro T said:

That's very surprising.  We've been there at least 6 times already in Ra-cha-cha.  Would've figured you'd easily top that in the Carolinas.

The elevation helps. 

Posted
21 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

And let's not forget 1987, when on this date, a tornado hit Cheektowaga.  It missed the house I grew up in by a couple blocks.

Passed about 100yds in front of me.  I was driving home from work on Union Rd. when it went by.  Didn't actually see a funnel though.  Just tons of debris flying around.

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1 hour ago, Weave said:

Passed about 100yds in front of me.  I was driving home from work on Union Rd. when it went by.  Didn't actually see a funnel though.  Just tons of debris flying around.

The tornado that hit the van I was in once when I was younger looked like that. Rain, rain, suddenly nothing, then just a wall of flying dirt and we were sort of airborne. Some of them are pretty amazing looking if you're far enough away to really see the structure, though. 

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3 hours ago, Weave said:

Passed about 100yds in front of me.  I was driving home from work on Union Rd. when it went by.  Didn't actually see a funnel though.  Just tons of debris flying around.

My brother was working at Town & Country Restaurant.  They were watching the tornado and saw the Holiday Showcase go *poof* in a cloud of debris.

Posted
8 hours ago, Doohickie said:

My brother was working at Town & Country Restaurant.  They were watching the tornado and saw the Holiday Showcase go *poof* in a cloud of debris.

Was your brother working at Town and Country when a guy with a shotgun was in the parking lot threatening to shoot up everything/everyone ovet a dispute with his landlord?  It was the same year I think.

I got caught in the intersection for that one too.  Absolutely chilling to be trapped in gridlock with a guy waving a shotgun all over the place.

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Lol... I don't know I'll have to ask him!  I missed all the excitement that year; we were living in Los Angeles and my first son was born a couple weeks before the tornado.

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No tornadoes, but back in late August of '92 we got hit by a waterspout while fishing 3 miles out in Lake Ontario ........ that was exciting. Scared the crap out of everyone on board to the point that we quit for the day...... Spent the afternoon cleaning up crap.

Posted
9 hours ago, Weave said:

Was your brother working at Town and Country when a guy with a shotgun was in the parking lot threatening to shoot up everything/everyone ovet a dispute with his landlord?  It was the same year I think.

I got caught in the intersection for that one too.  Absolutely chilling to be trapped in gridlock with a guy waving a shotgun all over the place.

Speaking of which.... that was where my First Communion Party was, ca. 1970.

Posted
52 minutes ago, N S said:

I am on the countdown to fall.  My favourite time of year and is about 7 weeks away.

I do love me some fall. I just hate highschool football season. But that's my problem for buying a house with a football stadium for a back yard. 

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*comes in to poo-poo N S's weather complaining*
*does the conversion to Farenheit*

HOLY ####, NS.  THAT'S HOT!

I know it's hot cuz we have the same heat index (humidex) here in Ft Worth!

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2 hours ago, Doohickie said:

*comes in to poo-poo N S's weather complaining*
*does the conversion to Farenheit*

HOLY ####, NS.  THAT'S HOT!

I know it's hot cuz we have the same heat index (humidex) here in Ft Worth!

The humidex reached 42 in Bedford (where we live ... about 15 KM, or 10 miles, from downtown Halifax) this afternoon at 3:00 PM.  That's 108 for you yanks.  This has been going on for 2 weeks, with no real end in sight.  Never has been like this for such an extended period in NS.  We normally get a day, or 2, like this each summer.

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20 hours ago, N S said:

The humidex reached 42 in Bedford (where we live ... about 15 KM, or 10 miles, from downtown Halifax) this afternoon at 3:00 PM.  That's 108 for you yanks.  This has been going on for 2 weeks, with no real end in sight.  Never has been like this for such an extended period in NS.  We normally get a day, or 2, like this each summer.

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