RRKen wrote:Well gee. Switchman killed because his attention was comprimised by a cell phone. But waving is not an at-risk behavior taking your attention away from your work. Right.
Just wondering - would you care to elaborate?
Moo
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....I've seen that done before...{changing the heading}, and wondering how it was done....?
Quentin
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Big line of storms just came through. Nothing much besides rain, lightning and thunder where I was standing, but the folks just south got hammered, including a couple of reports of funnel clouds. Lots of trees, poles, and wires down, and some damage to buildings.
Rumor has it we're getting a second wave a little later.
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Willy2 wrote: There are a lot of unhappy people in Omaha because the tornado sirens didn't sound until the tornado had already occurred and lifted on Sunday morning. This was because the storm was not a supercell, but actually part of a line. In a supercell, the rotation develops aloft and works it's way down slowly enough that the NWS has enough time to issue a timely warning. However, this tornado developed down closer to the surface, thus the rotation was not evident on radar until the tornado was ongoing. All of the true weather lovers understand this, but many people (both who did and did not have their homes damaged by the tornado) are angry. Since I do wish to work for the NWS in the future, and since this was a rather rare situation, I have to side with the meteorologists. However, I'm sure that I might feel differently if I had been startled awake at 2:30 in the morning due to my roof getting ripped off. More storms this evening, but nothing significant. The next big severe weather outbreak for us could be on Wednesday. It will be interesting.
There are a lot of unhappy people in Omaha because the tornado sirens didn't sound until the tornado had already occurred and lifted on Sunday morning. This was because the storm was not a supercell, but actually part of a line. In a supercell, the rotation develops aloft and works it's way down slowly enough that the NWS has enough time to issue a timely warning. However, this tornado developed down closer to the surface, thus the rotation was not evident on radar until the tornado was ongoing. All of the true weather lovers understand this, but many people (both who did and did not have their homes damaged by the tornado) are angry. Since I do wish to work for the NWS in the future, and since this was a rather rare situation, I have to side with the meteorologists. However, I'm sure that I might feel differently if I had been startled awake at 2:30 in the morning due to my roof getting ripped off.
More storms this evening, but nothing significant. The next big severe weather outbreak for us could be on Wednesday. It will be interesting.
m
Hi everyone! Sorry to have been so scarce today; after I finished with Produce this morning, came home, went to sleep; then, when I awoke, I started working on our supper for here at home tonight: chicken & dumplings (dumplings made from scratch).
Also have some chicken & dumplings for you all here in the diner, along with fresh spinach, beef & noodles, baked potatoes, cole slaw or garden salad, and some fresh sliced cucumbers.
Desserts tonight: cobbler: apple, cherry, peach); chocolate cake; strawberry shortcake w/whipped cream, and for the cake and cobblers, plenty of ice cream.
miketx wrote: Willy2 wrote: There are a lot of unhappy people in Omaha because the tornado sirens didn't sound until the tornado had already occurred and lifted on Sunday morning. This was because the storm was not a supercell, but actually part of a line. In a supercell, the rotation develops aloft and works it's way down slowly enough that the NWS has enough time to issue a timely warning. However, this tornado developed down closer to the surface, thus the rotation was not evident on radar until the tornado was ongoing. All of the true weather lovers understand this, but many people (both who did and did not have their homes damaged by the tornado) are angry. Since I do wish to work for the NWS in the future, and since this was a rather rare situation, I have to side with the meteorologists. However, I'm sure that I might feel differently if I had been startled awake at 2:30 in the morning due to my roof getting ripped off. More storms this evening, but nothing significant. The next big severe weather outbreak for us could be on Wednesday. It will be interesting. It's been so hot and dry here in central Texas that any kind of rain would be welcome, even a bit of a severe storm (no tornadoes, thanks!) m
I wish I could send you some of our rain (without the severe storms). We're going to get dumped on again tomorrow. Hopefully there won't be any additional tornadoes.
Willy
miketx wrote:It's been so hot and dry here in central Texas that any kind of rain would be welcome, even a bit of a severe storm (no tornadoes, thanks!)
I have a nice crunchy brown lawn here. No chance (or hope) for rain for the next week at least. The temp here was a balmy 98 degrees.
Gotta love springtime in Texas!
morning
well mookie 2 of your pumpkins are in our siding for the 2nd day.warm today warmer tommorow and rain friday sat & sunday.juice and lemonade are ready to go.Mookie here is your coffee mug.whose up for some cinnamon rolls?
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
....Our morning has started with clear skies....sunshine.....and mod. temps. Finally, was able to turn off A/C yesterday afternoon and open windows for fresh air...Believe just to low 80's today.
Mowing done yesterday so that looks rather nice now.
Now today a new water heater to be installed....One that runs only at night. Also provides overall house useage with lower kw / hr. price. Home is total electric. Figured I wanted to have one installed before the next cold season. Current one is still working fine but it's 27 years old....so now it will be changed.
So that's the start of our day.
Yessss - cinnamon roll with coffee over here! Sunny/hot/humid/windy - all heading east later today - sorry about that! Think Omaha got some hail last nite. Murray - I wonder what will happen in the lower 1/2 of the US when all this water gets down there.
Joe - keep punkins - send green(ies)!
Mookie wrote: Yessss - cinnamon roll with coffee over here! Sunny/hot/humid/windy - all heading east later today - sorry about that! Think Omaha got some hail last nite.
Yessss - cinnamon roll with coffee over here! Sunny/hot/humid/windy - all heading east later today - sorry about that! Think Omaha got some hail last nite.
Omaha did indeed get some hail last night. 1.00" diameter hail was reported in both Omaha and Papillion. La Vista, where I'm located, was in-between the two storms and didn't even get much rain. It's just as well, because we certainly don't need the hail. A much more significant severe weather outbreak/heavy rain event is on the way for this evening, so we'll see how that goes. My one concern is that clouds are not clearing very quickly. This may lead to limited instability and thus keep storm intensities down somewhat. Something to watch.
The after-effects of those storms have finally made it here- raining as I type, adding insult to injury (see Upper Midwest Flooding thread).
Someone please throw me a life preserver...
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Good afternoon, everyone! I know, I'm really late getting in today. Took advantage of the cool temps this morning, and actually did some housework.
Joe, thanks for taking care of breakfast this morning. I do have lunch ready for everyone, and on the warmer bar you will find:
Roast, taters, carrots & onion, creamed corn, homemade buttermilk biscuits, tuna noodle casserole.
Desserts today: chocolate cake, carrot cake, yellow cake w/chocolate icing, and the following pies: apple, blueberry, cherry, peach and strawberry.
Hope everyone has a great afternoon, and I'll see you all later on this afternoon.
Brian, here's a life preserver for you, and one for Joanie!!
really want to skip lunch and go for each one of the desserts. Maybe just a small lick on each one....
(got carried away on the chocolate frosting and - well yellow cake is still good even with no frosting.)
Brian et al - with water problems - guess I shouldn't complain about Lincoln not having oceans and sandy beaches. Or even good lakes and rivers around us.
Dan
afternoon
matt and I went to town and mowed and took care of what the city didn't pick up as far as branches goes.We have also been watching the weather as well.When matt saw the video of the house in wisconsin he said"holy shoot!!!". mookie I will see if the pumpkins are still there tonight.Brian and Dan if needed I can bring you a boat.Carl said stuff on the UP isn't going to go too far past chicago.Cw thanks for supper.
I just got home from work, and we have a 70% chance of rain for tonight. Right now we have a temp of 78 degrees here in Sioux Falls and the humidity is sitting at 66%. A tornado advisory has been issued until 10:00 tonight for the counties south of here, and this also includes a small portion of Iowa.
I was getting ready to go to work this morning when the civil defense sirens in my neighborhood went off and continued to blair for a few minutes. We had violent winds, and I looked out my front door to see a fairly large tree across the street from me at the Sioux Falls Federal Credit Union had been uprooted or snapped at the base of it's trunk. The power of Mother Nature is something to consider, and I am sure that others would tell me that I have seen NOTHING yet.
Ray
Hello my friends,
Just stopping by to say hello and wish everyone a great week.
I have been intouch with a guy at this site named Cuda Ken and he has taken me under his wing and has been a great sorce of help and insperation for a new guy in the hobby such as myself.
Ken has been at this HO modeling hobby a long time and has saved me countless headaches and dollars with his experiance and suggestions.
I have ordered my first Athern Locomotives through him and I'm excited as I wait for their arrival, up too this point I've only bought Manuta, Bachmann and model power locos, they run good for me but I'm told by many that I'm lucky as most are low end locos.
My layout is on Santa Fe south modern day in HO scale and a large selection of military trains.
Ken has been teaching me so much about couplers, trucks and wheel sets , track and too many things to list here.
I just wanted to thank him and the other guys like him that I've met through this site that have made my HO modeling experiance unforgetable and some day I hope that I may keep the torch going by helping a new modeler as I have been helped.
With out finding this site I'm affraid I would have become frustrated and given up already, it is people like Ken that are the reason that this hobby will continue to grow, one new bee at a time.
Today I'm grateful and I wish to buy a round of Milk shakes at the Cafe for everyone.
Thank you all, I'm in your debt.
Jess Red Horse of the "Humbled people" Tribe.
This just in on the Weather Channel - Mookie, Duck!
Tornado on the ground 27 miles north of Lincoln....
tree68 wrote: This just in on the Weather Channel - Mookie, Duck!Tornado on the ground 27 miles north of Lincoln....
Fortunately, that tornado is moving away from Mookie, but perhaps toward some part of the Omaha Metro. Other storms developing as well, so it looks like the severe weather outbreak is underway. The NWS and our local news stations are really concerned about the heavy rain potential, and I have to agree based on computer model data. Plus, the fact that these storms are developing into a line (with a second line not far behind) and moving slowly means that they will train over the same locations, thus causing prolonged heavy rain. And all of that will head into Iowa later tonight and tomorrow. I enjoy the storms a lot, but pray that everyone will remain safe tonight.
Joe I might take that boat just yet!
We are forecast for "up to 3 inches or more of rain" for the next 36-48 hours. Hooray...
For those that are interested, the Mid-Continent Railway Museum is underwater. It sounds like most of their rolling stock (locos and cars) has water damage and parts of their 1894 CNW depot have washed away. It was told to me that this is the first year that they won't be able to run trains in 46 years. Track, bridges...it doesn't look good. Time to go and hang my head.
Multiple tornadoes have hit the Omaha area this evening. I am hoping we will hear from Mookie yet this evening to make sure that all is well in Lincoln. There were reports of tornadoes or at least strong straight line winds in that area.
None of the tornadoes were too strong, but one to our northeast in Little Sioux, Iowa hit a Boy Scout camp. Reports indicate at least 4 fatalities and up to 40 injuries.
In addition, a large area has seen between 1 and 3 inches of rain and some areas have seen as much as 4 or 5 inches. This is causing significant flash flooding in the area and will probably lead to more proglonged river flooding over the next few days. My weather station at home has measured nearly 2.5 inches of rain and some more is coming. The severe weather threat seems to have shifted east and south, though. Quite the evening.
.....So many people having damage and some worse with these storm patterns. Sure hope we soon get a pattern change of weather activities.
I wonder how severe it will be down in the delta areas on the Mississippi River when all this from the planes and upper and lower mid west reaches down into that area.
Our White river is still high here in Muncie and the sun has been shining all day. It's back to the river bed here now and off the flood planes but south of Indy there are miles and miles of flooded towns and farm lands.....
RRKen wrote:It is raining again in MC. Like we really need rain. Hundreds of homes damaged, some red tagged. Still waiting for tap water to be approved for drinking.
Holy Cow! More rain is the last thing you need up there Ken.
You guys be careful...and keep the weather radios on...I see more rain headed your way.
Murray wrote: RRKen wrote:It is raining again in MC. Like we really need rain. Hundreds of homes damaged, some red tagged. Still waiting for tap water to be approved for drinking. Holy Cow! More rain is the last thing you need up there Ken.You guys be careful...and keep the weather radios on...I see more rain headed your way
You guys be careful...and keep the weather radios on...I see more rain headed your way
I have two radar screens going, and the latest on http://207.199.206.112:9001
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