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    Bok...everyone okay with your family?

    At least 17 killed as tornadoes rip through Arkansas, Oklahoma

    Tornadoes ripped through the south-central United States on Sunday, killing at least 17 people in Arkansas and Oklahoma and wiping out entire neighborhoods, authorities said as rescue workers searched in darkness for survivors.
    Winds ripped houses off their foundations and flipped cars on top of the rubble in the small town of Vilonia in central Arkansas' Faulkner county, one of the worst-hit communities, television pictures showed.
    Arkansas authorities said at least 10 people had died in Faulkner and six more across the state - the first reported fatalities of this year's tornado season. Another person was killed in neighboring Oklahoma, said the sheriff's department.
    Searchers were continuing to dig through rubble in Vilonia and a spokesman for the County Sheriff's office said there was a "mass casualty situation".
    "An entire neighborhood of 50 or so homes has been destroyed. Many homes are completely gone except the foundation ... There is more devastation like this in other parts of Arkansas," state congressman Tim Griffin told Reuters.
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    Yes. Thanks for asking. The tornados were closer to Little Rock. Arkansas got some nasty weather.
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    • #3
      Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
      Yes. Thanks for asking. The tornados were closer to Little Rock. Arkansas got some nasty weather.
      Good to hear. I tried to find info on the exact location, but wasn't very successful. Scary stuff.
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      • #4
        I saw just a little bit of it on the news this morning. LOTS of devastation. We're supposed to be getting it all day here. We had a hell of a fireworks show last night, heavy rain all day today, and likely some tornado-ish stuff right around 4-5 this afternoon, in the middle of rush hour.

        Ironically, I was just thinking the other day that we had just passed the anniversary of the 1998 tornado that struck downtown.
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        • #5
          Wow.

          It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
          In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
          Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
          Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Adam View Post
            Wow.

            So sad to look at.

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            • #7
              Bad stuff.

              Looks like Arkansas has replaced Oklahoma as tornado alley.
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              • #8
                It really does seem like Arkansas is giving Oklahoma a run for wild tornado weather, but the strange reality the most frequent tornadoes occur in a small band that stretches from south-central Mississippi to south-central Alabama. The bigger, more destructive ones tend to happen in OK, but they are overall less common. At least so says the NWS.

                The tornadoes did their thing in central Mississippi and north and central Alabama this afternoon. At one point in the western part of suburban Birmingham there were two distinct side-by-side areas of rotation as a storm tore through Hueytown and Bessemer.

                We're expecting our dose of bad wetter tomorrow afternoon. I'm not looking forward to it.
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                • #9
                  Adam. Where's Adam?

                  A family member of mine that lives near Adam had some bad weather last night. I figured the chainsaw at 6:00 am cutting it up (it blocked the driveway) would have woken Adam up.
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                  • #10
                    BTW, the "it" was a tree that was toppled. A big one.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
                      Adam. Where's Adam?

                      A family member of mine that lives near Adam had some bad weather last night. I figured the chainsaw at 6:00 am cutting it up (it blocked the driveway) would have woken Adam up.
                      Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
                      BTW, the "it" was a tree that was toppled. A big one.
                      Storms are weird. I had no wind to speak of at home in the last 36 hours or so. A couple of blocks away someone lost a tree, apparently due to wind. I had one hell of a light show on Sunday night, and lots of heavy rain, but a friend who lives less than five miles away had virtually nothing: a sprinkle not sufficient to actually wet the street, and she neither saw lightning nor heard thunder.

                      Locally, on my own yard, I've probably gotten 4"-5" of rain in the last 36 hours, most of it a torrential downpour, but barely enough wind to ruffle a leaf. All around us, in every direction, there were fierce winds last night. Just about two miles away, there was at least straight-line wind damage that turned over someone's outdoor shed (wooden, posted into the ground, not a drop-in aluminum one). The church immediately behind me had at least one limb down in their "back yard" this morning.


                      Last spring, we had a storm come through with winds that, oddly enough, knocked over garbage cans (the kind you wheel out to the curb) down one side of the street. The other side's cans were un-touched.

                      Strange.
                      It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                      In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                      Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                      Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Adam View Post
                        Storms are weird. I had no wind to speak of at home in the last 36 hours or so. A couple of blocks away someone lost a tree, apparently due to wind. I had one hell of a light show on Sunday night, and lots of heavy rain, but a friend who lives less than five miles away had virtually nothing: a sprinkle not sufficient to actually wet the street, and she neither saw lightning nor heard thunder.

                        Locally, on my own yard, I've probably gotten 4"-5" of rain in the last 36 hours, most of it a torrential downpour, but barely enough wind to ruffle a leaf. All around us, in every direction, there were fierce winds last night. Just about two miles away, there was at least straight-line wind damage that turned over someone's outdoor shed (wooden, posted into the ground, not a drop-in aluminum one). The church immediately behind me had at least one limb down in their "back yard" this morning.


                        Last spring, we had a storm come through with winds that, oddly enough, knocked over garbage cans (the kind you wheel out to the curb) down one side of the street. The other side's cans were un-touched.

                        Strange.
                        When we lived in Ohio we had a tornado come through the next block over. It literally tore up one side of the street, leaving the other side unscathed.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
                          Adam. Where's Adam?

                          A family member of mine that lives near Adam had some bad weather last night. I figured the chainsaw at 6:00 am cutting it up (it blocked the driveway) would have woken Adam up.
                          Is your family member's family, friends and home now safe?

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by RobJohnson View Post
                            Is your family member's family, friends and home now safe?
                            Oh, yes. He was cutting the tree up so early so he could get to work.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
                              Oh, yes. He was cutting the tree up so early so he could get to work.
                              Good news.

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