Today [7]

[iseeuu]

89 116 confirmed dead. 7 rescued.

Joplin, MO Takes Direct Hit By Tornado - KTVI

Joplin Devastated By Tornado -- KTVI

The death and destruction is sobering.

This area is about in the middle of what we call "tornado alley". So many tornado and storm warnings every year, it is easy to become complacent when no tornado actually arrives. Like this one, by the time the "hook echo" radar sees as the tornado arrived in my back yard, some 5 miles away, the only damage was from strong winds. I did hear a tornado over my home once, it damaged some buildings just north of me. Hope I never hear another one!

Have not received any news yet of any personal acquaintances in Joplin who have been affected. But my heartfelt prayers go out to those who have experienced this tragedy, and there are many.

Robert

 

[Hopalong X]

I'm glad to see you are safe.

Mike

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Robert and Mike,
Glad to hear you and your loved ones stayed out of harms way.
Next couple of days are not looking much better so stay alert.
THW

 

[noobvious]

89 116 confirmed dead. 7 rescued.

Joplin, MO Takes Direct Hit By Tornado - KTVI

Joplin Devastated By Tornado -- KTVI

The death and destruction is sobering.

This area is about in the middle of what we call "tornado alley". So many tornado and storm warnings every year, it is easy to become complacent when no tornado actually arrives. Like this one, by the time the "hook echo" radar sees as the tornado arrived in my back yard, some 5 miles away, the only damage was from strong winds. I did hear a tornado over my home once, it damaged some buildings just north of me. Hope I never hear another one!

Have not received any news yet of any personal acquaintances in Joplin who have been affected. But my heartfelt prayers go out to those who have experienced this tragedy, and there are many.

Robert

I'm glad to see you are safe.

Mike

You guys should dig tunnels......maybe living underground would be safer!:shock:
Glad to see you're both still with us.

 

[Hopalong X]

It seems that way Noob!

The one that hit St. Louis about a month ago almost all the residences had basements to got to. No deaths. Only a couple of injuries.

The one that hit Mississippi. Alabama and Georgia about 3 weeks ago. No basements.

Joplin almost all no basements.
Slabs and crawl spaces. No underground cover.
They had I heard about 20 minute siren warning but no place to hide.

May they rest in peace!

 

[StalkeR]

Today I bought new monitor. Philips 192EL2SB/00

 

[A Guy]

I'm glad both of you and your loved ones were unharmed. Truly a horrifying experience I'm sure. A Guy

 

[Hopalong X]

I have rode out several Hurricanes in New Orleans area but I really will take a pass on the tornado's.

100 MPH plus hurricane winds was quite sufficient thank you.

 

[noobvious]

It seems that way Noob!

The one that hit St. Louis about a month ago almost all the residences had basements to got to. No deaths. Only a couple of injuries.

The one that hit Mississippi. Alabama and Georgia about 3 weeks ago. No basements.

Joplin almost all no basements.
Slabs and crawl spaces. No underground cover.
They had I heard about 20 minute siren warning but no place to hide.

May they rest in peace!

QFT

 

[iseeuu]

Thanks, Mike, Dennis, Randy, and Bill!

Actually an underground storm shelter is not a bad idea in this part of the country! But, if not a tornado there are always ice storms, flash floods, or earthquakes! It can be a dangerous world out there. Sometimes what is needed is good ol' common sense to keep us safe?

Cheers!
Robert

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Thanks, Mike, Dennis, Randy, and Bill!

Actually an underground storm shelter is not a bad idea in this part of the country! But, if not a tornado there are always ice storms, flash floods, or earthquakes! It can be a dangerous world out there. Sometimes what is needed is good ol' common sense to keep us safe?

Cheers!
Robert

Robert hi..I'm soooo glad you and your family are safe.. these things have no heart.. they seem to blast through where ever they want to go... leaving such horrific destruction. Prayers for all those who have lost love ones.. everything they had.. along with the sorrow they must deal with.. Life is so hard at times like this.

 

[iseeuu]

Thanks, Mike, Dennis, Randy, and Bill!

Actually an underground storm shelter is not a bad idea in this part of the country! But, if not a tornado there are always ice storms, flash floods, or earthquakes! It can be a dangerous world out there. Sometimes what is needed is good ol' common sense to keep us safe?

Cheers!
Robert

Robert hi..I'm soooo glad you and your family are safe.. these things have no heart.. they seem to blast through where ever they want to go... leaving such horrific destruction. Prayers for all those who have lost love ones.. everything they had.. along with the sorrow they must deal with.. Life is so hard at times like this.

Thank you M'Lady.

And well said. We will keep watch for weather coming from the West!

You keep safe as well!

Robert

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

This video shows the power of a tornado .. and a train..
I hope I've posted this correctly.

 

[Dave76]

4 days!!

how bad were the withdrawal symptoms?

It's not a pretty sight to behold.
The wife and kids had a harder time with it, to my surprise...

Tornado hits Joplin, Mo. Wipes out hospital.
The Weather Channel Livestream

That storm has a "bulls eye" on my location!!

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I am good here. Just rain, thunder and lightning until about 10pm then just rain for a couple of hours.

I posted just in case someone else was in the line of fire from the Joplin storm.
What was the chance someone would actually be on the forum who possibly lived in the path of that storm?
Not likely but I posted anyway.

Up popped Iseeuu.:shock:

I guess it was worth a post after all.

89 confirmed dead.
http://www.fox2now.com/videobeta/?watchId=4a382165-fe37-43f2-8bb4-863f7a13777a

1 mile wide path 4 miles long.

Feel for all affected, it can be fierce.

Our typhoon/tropical storm season is just starting, almost didn't get off the island two weeks ago due to a nasty TS.

Another typhoon barring down tonight, suppose to be the usual high winds and lots of rain.

 

[Shadowjk]

Today was somewhat Frustrating - I shall explain

In my Graphics lesson my teacher was wondering if he could rip a DVD He had created to his HDD - And with me being the only Tech savy person there I said Yes you can - you need some software

So I went ahead and Ripped the DVD and is all working fine (Installed on the Local Disk not Network)

After doing so another student came up to me and said - That software has viruses - It has "Holes" In the software to allow hackers to attack the school network.

I explained to him what I had done and I got it from a legit webiste

Xilisoft Video Converter, DVD Ripper, iPad, iPod video converter, AVI to DVD

He said to me that his Dad has a master degree in Network Administration and he should know what he is talking about

I decided to just leave him be

Sometimes I just do not know what people are "smoking" Sometimes :huh:

But that was today,

Josh

 

[Teerex]

I think that at this point I got cozy with Windows 7 x64. I think that playing MKV and FLV files in 64 bit WMP without shark007's help signifies this.

 

[Hopalong X]

89 116 , 124 confirmed dead. Joplin, Mo.


Oklahoma was hit today and the storms are moving towards Joplin, Mo. again.

No info on Oklahoma yet.

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Watching CNN with possibility of 8 tornado's going through Oklahoma.
Joplin has 9PM curfew as storms headed there way.

 

[ionbasa]

I reached my 600th post today!

 

[derekimo]

I reached my 600th post today!
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Well done, Congrats!