I Was Good

[tjm]

House across the street from my daughter's had about 15-20 chunks of hail through the roof and ceilings about 20 years ago. Only house in the subdivision hit that hard, although some others had shingles broken. Biggest I've seen were hen egg size and bounced high when they first hit.

1 hour ago, oneshot said:

general operating tools that the community counts on is a little ridiculous.

I don't believe any community "counts on" weather warnings from the government. Not at all.  By the time your warnings go out the time to take action is past or it never happened. The whole program is just a way to pump money into the communities through government jobs and no one ever expected any actual results or benefits other than making jobs. Just have fun and cash the pay checks, taxpayers love you all. 

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1 hour ago, tjm said:

House across the street from my daughter's had about 15-20 chunks of hail through the roof and ceilings about 20 years ago. Only house in the subdivision hit that hard, although some others had shingles broken. Biggest I've seen were hen egg size and bounced high when they first hit.

I don't believe any community "counts on" weather warnings from the government. Not at all.  By the time your warnings go out the time to take action is past or it never happened. The whole program is just a way to pump money into the communities through government jobs and no one ever expected any actual results or benefits other than making jobs. Just have fun and cash the pay checks, taxpayers love you all. 

If our equipment is working we can warn way ahead of time but we do much more than just storms.

Had a big fire here Fire Department was asking why we was there well because it is our Job. At the time we gave Counseling and Assistance.

Our Department was started after 9/11 and we still have other Departments in the area not wanting to work with us.

Our area covers a very isolated area of the state running East of Springfield, South of Camdenton  , North to almost St. Louis .

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

The twister that hit me showed up in total darkness (10:15pm), no sirens or anything, and I still had plenty of WARNING and about 40 seconds more time than I needed to put together a staying alive plan.

The FEMA folks were actually pissed that I had good insurance.  They must get paid "per victim" for their assistance.

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55 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

The twister that hit me showed up in total darkness (10:15pm), no sirens or anything, and I still had plenty of WARNING and about 40 seconds more time than I needed to put together a staying alive plan.

The FEMA folks were actually pissed that I had good insurance.  They must get paid "per victim" for their assistance.

What did you do in that 40 seconds?  Did you have a basement?

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2 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

What did you do in that 40 seconds?  Did you have a basement?

No basement but I have a 5' tall crawlspace.  I didn't really think it was going to hit us directly though, and we had a heavy butcher-block kitchen table, so I shoved the table into the hallway, got the kids, wife and dog under it, then I got in on top of them.   About 8 seconds later the house exploded.   

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Dang!  We had two that just missed us.  One was the one that hit the STL Airport.  We watched it go just north of us.  The other went east of us scoured some house down to the foundations a couple streets over.  There wasn't even anything left for them to pick through or pick up.  Just gone!

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1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Dang!  We had two that just missed us.  One was the one that hit the STL Airport.  We watched it go just north of us.  The other went east of us scoured some house down to the foundations a couple streets over.  There wasn't even anything left for them to pick through or pick up.  Just gone!

Lambert? I remeber pictures of a shuttle bus hanging off the parking garage from that one.

My office was out at Spirit, I watched the one that hit Francis Howell years back from my parking lot. Had an employee take cover in the gas station at kisker and 94, that may have been the one that just missed you.

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Before, I had always thought that people living in trailers in tornado alley were idiots.   But I came to the conclusion that's the way to go!    Just haul in a new one and you're only homeless for a week at most.    That whole ordeal of cleaning up the mess and building a new house and shop while taking cold showers under a garden hose, living on credit cards, camping on the property, fighting with insurance companies, contractors, and the law.... was a miserable character building 7 months.    

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1 hour ago, semble said:

Lambert? I remeber pictures of a shuttle bus hanging off the parking garage from that one.

My office was out at Spirit, I watched the one that hit Francis Howell years back from my parking lot. Had an employee take cover in the gas station at kisker and 94, that may have been the one that just missed you.

Yep lambert.  I live a half mile from kisker and 94.  

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1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Yep lambert.  I live a half mile from kisker and 94.  

My wife had a couple co-workers in your area that had houses in their neighborhood leveled from that storm.