Roll Call

[Mookie]

After all the tornados yesterday and last nite - are we all present and accounted for?

Lincoln had a 70% chance of rain and got squat.

Illinois, Indiana - are you ok.

Mook

[JoeKoh]

Heard Ft wayne got an inch of rain in less than an hour.We here in Nw ohio are ok.
stayin safe
Joe and Matt

[tree68]

Little twister about 60 miles SW of here on Sunday, minor damage, no injuries. Just rain and a little wind here since. Got a max wind of 23mph on the home wx station.

Present and accounted for.

[CShaveRR]

All OK here; the Illinois tornadoes were south and west of us. We spent the evening watching a movie...when we got out of the theater we knew it had rained, but didn't know about the wild stuff until we got to the (late) TV news at home. Lombard got about 0.4" of desperately-needed rain; things are damp but very green this morning.

[Anonymous]

Everything's OK here.

I've never been in/seen a tornado, we just don't get them up here.

Thank Goodness [:)]

[rrnut282]

Had 6 funnel clouds spotted within 50 miles N NNE W and SW of home last night. We only got about a 1/2 inch, so it skipped over us.

[Anonymous]

the tornadoes hit south and west of me, we aren't in what's called the Alley, but we're really really close.

Jay

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by NTDN

the tornadoes hit south and west of me, we aren't in what's called the Alley, but we're really really close.

Jay

close as in horseshoes and hand grenades - can still be a problem!

Mook

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by NTDN

the tornadoes hit south and west of me, we aren't in what's called the Alley, but we're really really close.

Jay

close as in horseshoes and hand grenades - can still be a problem!

Mook

LOL, yes it can, there's been times they've hit right here, as well as to the east. so we don't consider ourselves Lucky by any means, just not as likely to get them as others.

Jay

[zardoz]

I'm not sure, but I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore.

I'll just follow the yellow brick road........

[Noah Hofrichter]

A news flash for those of you that didn't hear. For a short time, Wisconsin split off and floated away from Minnesota and Illinois out into lake Michigan. Several railroads were called, including BNSF, UP and WSOR, to haul it back into place. Large ropes were attached to several trains and WI was dragged back into place and spiked down good by the WSOR. Nobody got hurt, and this time it was spiked by WSOR and Not UP, so hopefully this will never happen again.[swg][swg][swg]
Noah[:P][;)]

p.s. My 300th post!

[Willy2]

Everything is fine here in Omaha.
Omaha had an 80% chance of rain and guess what we got? 0.08 hundreths of an inch.
Sunday we had an 80% chance and got nothing.
Yesterday in the late evening we had a 40% chance and got nothing. I think that the forecasters need to sharpen up on their skills. I do know that Norfolk was under a tornado warning on Sunday and yesterday evening. I guess I'm finally done griping!

Willy

[Modelcar]

....It did get pretty nasty last evening and during the night in this part of the country. Indiana had tornado activity moving from the southwest to the norheast in the evening....and some small towns and Kokomo did have damage...We here in Muncie had them passing about 10 miles west of us in their trip to the northeast part of the state. Yes, we are in an area of the state that does see this kind of activity but once again remained lucky while they passed us by.
Forecast is possibly more of the same this late afternoon or evening....

[Puckdropper]

I'm present and accounted for. Fort Rain may have gotten an inch of rain in an hour, I don't doubt that. (See the pun of Fort Wayne.) The road outside our house was covered with at least a half-inch of water (it normally fills that ditch, so that's several hundred gallons more.)

Granville, IL got hit by a tornado, but did not seem to be too badly damaged. It'd probably rate a strong F1, weak F2. Utica got hit bad, or just got hit in a more vital location. 8 dead so far from a tavern collapse. (Do go in to taverns, and they won't collaspe on you. Sorry if N E one is offended w/ my remark.)

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

A news flash for those of you that didn't hear. For a short time, Wisconsin split off and floated away from Minnesota and Illinois out into lake Michigan. Several railroads were called, including BNSF, UP and WSOR, to haul it back into place. Large ropes were attached to several trains and WI was dragged back into place and spiked down good by the WSOR. Nobody got hurt, and this time it was spiked by WSOR and Not UP, so hopefully this will never happen again.[swg][swg][swg]
Noah[:P][;)]

p.s. My 300th post!

Congratulations and a good sense of humor too! Wonder if we could do that with maybe Nebraska and Colorado - we could use a mountain or two....

Moo

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2

Everything is fine here in Omaha.
Omaha had an 80% chance of rain and guess what we got? 0.08 hundreths of an inch.
Sunday we had an 80% chance and got nothing.
Yesterday in the late evening we had a 40% chance and got nothing. I think that the forecasters need to sharpen up on their skills. I do know that Norfolk was under a tornado warning on Sunday and yesterday evening. I guess I'm finally done griping!

Willy

Willy - could it be that Bergie is in charge of rain for our area? He may be unhappy with one of us -,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, must be you, of course!

We don't need wind - have that year around, but some kind of water would be really nice!

Mookie

[CShaveRR]

Maybe I should bring water instead of popcorn...

Naaah!

[zardoz]

Haven't heard much lately from the Weather Gods......they must be on vacation......hope the weather is lousy for them!

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CShaveRR

Maybe I should bring water instead of popcorn...

Naaah!

Bring water, popcorn and port-a-potty.....Ladies you know....

[cherokee woman]

As of right now, all we've had for the last several days is light to moderate rain showers.

Supposedly, tonight we stand to get thundershowers and possibly some heavy
weather. Sure hope not anything bad.

[Willy2]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Mookie

QUOTE: Originally posted by Willy2

Everything is fine here in Omaha.
Omaha had an 80% chance of rain and guess what we got? 0.08 hundreths of an inch.
Sunday we had an 80% chance and got nothing.
Yesterday in the late evening we had a 40% chance and got nothing. I think that the forecasters need to sharpen up on their skills. I do know that Norfolk was under a tornado warning on Sunday and yesterday evening. I guess I'm finally done griping!

Willy

Willy - could it be that Bergie is in charge of rain for our area? He may be unhappy with one of us -,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, must be you, of course!

We don't need wind - have that year around, but some kind of water would be really nice!

Mookie

I'm not sure that Bergie would be mad at me........ [}:)]I'm thinking you're a much better candidate to make Bergie really mad Mookie!

Willy

[Anonymous]

i live a couple miles away from all the carnage here in IL. sounds a little stupid, but i was driving east down I-80 when all of this was going on and had i not exited i would have crossed paths with the tornado. kinda crazy, eh?!........nah, i'm not canadian. haha

[eolafan]

Have been out of town for the entire week and heard about tornadoes hitting in Illinois abaout sixty miles away from my home in Aurora. Forunately I am married to a Saint of a wife who has all under control at home in Aurora. Eolafan (Jim)[:)]

[CBQ_Guy]

I'm here barely. I'm in Peru, IL which is between Utica and Granville, and barely a couple miles north of the storms track. Only got a small amount of hail and a bit of rain, but the sky sure looked REALLY dark just to the south east of me when I came up from the basement...that was about the time Utica was getting nailed!

[vsmith]

No Tornado's here in LA, had 45 mph Santa Ana winds blowing thru here all night though, its perfect Earthquake weather here...Unusually warm, dry , with Santa Ana winds, kind of weather that makes us nervous.

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

No Tornado's here in LA, had 45 mph Santa Ana winds blowing thru here all night though, its perfect Earthquake weather here...Unusually warm, dry , with Santa Ana winds, kind of weather that makes us nervous.

kinda like waiting for the other shoe to drop.........[:-^]

think I'll go fill up the car and get some ice......

[vsmith]

I hear ya, bro....

[espeefoamer]

Here on the left coast we had rain last Saturday, and even a little thunder.

[Anonymous]

I was afraid Western Illinois was going to have a springtime drought-but ok now it's started raining every week again.