Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

[dixiehack]

Either this was the briefest of touchdowns or more likely it gets classified as a microburst. There just isn't a consistent damage track to speak of. From skirting along the edge of the trailer community you can tell they are damaged but I didn't see anything leveled. Some trees down at the intermediate school and a ServPro van out front but no structural damage visible. The back road to the Baptist church is barricaded, but I only caught the faintest whiff of pine driving by.

The only real damage I saw up by the interstate near Walmart was an RV dealership that took a pretty good beating. In the truth in advertising department, one of those RVs got blown into the wall of the neighboring business, Joe Hudson Collision Center.

 

[Neutral Corner]

I drove past the Super-Walmart in out neighborhood yesterday. I counted 22 bucket trucks parked, waiting for the storm to come in.

 

[dixiehack]

I did notice this evening that the National Guard armory just north of the trailer park (and thus a block closer to yours truly) got a sizable part of the roof peeled off. It did wind up rating as an EF1. Plenty scary enough for me.

 

[SixToe]

Back 33 or 34 years ago, I can't remember when, Auburn played MSU in Starkville and Ms. SixToe and I were driving over. Noticed a huge cloud, blackness, lightning, ugliness. No radio reports of anything.

We got to the hotel in Columbus — I think it was the Holiday Inn, by the mall. Parked the shirtty car I was driving at the time and said, "You go in and check in, and I'll bring in the bags." Literally, it started hailing like a MFer right then and then the wind started blowing. We couldn't get out because of the hail, and the wind intensified, and we huddled in my shirtty car probably chanting and praying to every higher power. I could feel my car lifting and rocking, then slamming. It did this several times and then, just like Keyser Söze ... poof. It was gone.

Everything was white from the hail. The 18-wheeler in the mall's empty parking lot was tumbled over. The hotel was, I think, an "L" shape and the roof on the front was sheared away. Power out, Mississippi University for Women campus damaged, other damage. My shirtty car was dented all over. Amazingly, we were unharmed. Ms. SixToe stayed at the hotel and listened to the game on the radio, and I went on to Starkville.

I've waited out, watched or, only a couple of times, been involved in tornadic storms since 1974. They're incredibly amazing, and damned scary.

 

[Chef2]

Less than 12 hours ago, I was playing golf in 85 degree weather with a light breeze. It's now snowing and winds at around 65,

 

[Batman]

Mother Nature was pissed at that particular section of forest.

 

[dixiehack]

I have heard of locations getting two hits from the same storm system, but never from opposite directions.

 

[Driftwood]

Oh, goodie.

"A severe weather threat is in place from the Mississippi and Ohio valleys into the Southeast starting this weekend, with possible damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes,' said Weather.com meteorologist Sara Tonks in an online forecast. Wintry weather will also plague portions of the northern tier this weekend, forecasters said.

Though the threat Saturday will be minimal, a few severe storms could fire up in the Mississippi Valley. Cities at risk for severe thunderstorms Saturday include St. Louis, Memphis, Louisville, and Nashville, AccuWeather said.

Sunday will likely be the most active day for severe storms this weekend, as the threat area stretches across much of the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, Tonks said. Over a dozen states may be at risk of severe weather Sunday, AccuWeather predicted.

On Monday, severe weather will likely continue ahead of the cold front from the Southeast to the mid-Atlantic, possibly including Atlanta; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina; Jacksonville, Florida; Columbia, South Carolina; and Richmond, Virginia, Tonks said.

 

[Twirling Time]

RGV getting a 100-year flood. With the number of tropical cyclones over thatperiod, that's saying something.

Storms stun Valley cities as rainfall shatters records going back to 1911

The Rio Grande Valley was left soaked Thursday after severe thunderstorms brought record rainfall, some reports of damages and promise of continued inclement weather well into Friday.

myrgv.com

 

[Twirling Time]

Everything in the South begins in Texas.


ADD: Never mind that Guymon, Oklahoma is fixing to catch some baby batter.

 

[Batman]

Everything in the South begins in Texas.


ADD: Never mind that Guymon, Oklahoma is fixing to catch some baby batter.

It'd be something if they get some snow out of this.

 

[Twirling Time]

Wouldn't doubt along the southern tip (just the tip) of Michigan.