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March 04, 2004, 01:55:15 PM
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BobTheJanitor

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Hooray, it's tornado season again! Tornado just hit a city west of here and is now headed this way.

Actually... I was just told it's weakened to just 40-80 mph straight line winds. That's no fun.

Well, anyway, it's tornado time again in Oklahoma, so if I suddenly go afk and you hear the sound of a freight train over the voice comm, don't worry, I'll be right back in the game as soon as the water drains and the power comes back. I'll just use this thread for fun updates on tornadoes as they strike. Since tornado season in Oklahoma seems to last from about march until... march of the next year, watch this space for updates on the mayhem. Anyone else live in a natural disaster prone area?

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March 04, 2004, 02:07:22 PM
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Man, in Chicago or lot was right in this terrible little ditch. We had an ASSLOAD of rain in 1994, made headlines as a huge flood, and all the neighbors, hell, EVERYONE got flooded...

except us in this horrible little ditch :D

Though all my years of living there, only had a real tornado scare once.
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March 04, 2004, 04:31:44 PM
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Nope, no natural disasters here.

*knock on wood*

March 04, 2004, 05:06:05 PM
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ooooooooOOooOOOOK lahoma where every night my honey wife and i, sit alone and talk, and watch a house, being thrown by a crazytornado in the SKY!!!!!


we know we cannot hold to the ground, when the tornado is getting ready to pound...

gah, i'll just stop this butchering of the song now.

but anyhoo, how exciting Bob :) tornadoes!!! frightening to me, tbh. but i guess it's a point of state pride and such?
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March 04, 2004, 05:15:51 PM
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yay for kansas we gots 'yer torn-adies right 'ere

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March 04, 2004, 05:19:19 PM
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but anyhoo, how exciting Bob :) tornadoes!!! frightening to me, tbh. but i guess it's a point of state pride and such?
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March 04, 2004, 08:20:33 PM
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I used to be so damn scarred of tornado(e)s when I was little.

...anyway we don't get that many here in Michigan, but I have been through two. One went right through our backyard (:o), and the other got close to us but never made it all the way. There's my two cents.
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March 04, 2004, 11:28:07 PM
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Ahhh, so BM knows what I'm talking about. We get them so consistantly each year that you get into a mindset of 'tornadoes, yawn, if you need me I'll be out back gardening'. I mean, we do get those occasional F5's that stir people up, but generally if it's not on your lawn, you sort of ignore it.

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March 05, 2004, 02:54:54 AM
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tornadoes are one of the few things that make me glad to be english.

March 05, 2004, 03:02:55 AM
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tornadoes are one of the few things that make me glad to be english.
At least we don't have to MIND THE GAP![/size] for fear of some tentacle monster sucking you under the train... ;)
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March 05, 2004, 04:45:27 AM
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March 05, 2004, 07:12:19 AM
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I'm in Arizona, and being ringed with mountains, there is a complete lack of any weather change at all, natural disaster or otherwise. Most exciting phenomenon that occurs is weak shocks from quakes in California.  :D
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March 05, 2004, 09:19:50 AM
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Climate. My arch-nemesis. As a kid I used to see these "Family Christmas" movies and ask my parents what all that strange white stuff was that the kids were building human-resembling sculptures with. Or packing it up into small balls and flinging them at each other. They called it "snow". Well, in winter, we don't have snow, we have rain. Just like spring, summer and fall. In fact, it rains all the time here. Except for the rare occasions when it's just overcast. The most extreme sorts of weather we have here is minor floods, meaning that the people living down by the harbor get all the stuff they keep in their cellars wet. I, on the other hand, live on a hill. The icecaps would have to melt four times over before our cellar gets flooded. Considering the natural disasters I don't have to watch out for, the rain doesn't seem so bad anymore.

March 05, 2004, 10:25:30 AM
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Well, in winter, we don't have snow, we have rain. Just like spring, summer and fall. In fact, it rains all the time here. Except for the rare occasions when it's just overcast.
HOLY SMOKEROONIES!! do you live in Vancouver too!! :o
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March 06, 2004, 07:15:22 AM
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March 06, 2004, 05:57:51 PM
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for us its a little like northerners and snow



foreigner " OMIGOSH! WINDSTORM!"

Oklahoman " Where? how fast?"

foreigner "50 MILE AN HOURS STRAIGHTWINDS"

Oklahoman *grabs a piece of straw and chews*

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