Bad STORMS?? - Page 2

Reba · 05-16-2008, 09:35 AM

I've experienced small earthquakes, and several small or close hurricanes.

The worst experience was Hurricane Hugo in 1989. It hit our area in South Carolina during the night, with 140 mph winds. It was awful, worse because we couldn't see anything in the dark. We lived in a one-story ranch house at the time. Hubby, our daughter, our two Labs, two cats, and I spent the night in our hallway. It was the safest area because it was in the middle of the house, no windows. We kept hearing loud crashing noises and whistling wind. The inside walls of the hallway kept heaving in and out, like breathing. In the middle of the night, there was a brief period of quiet during the passing of the eye. We went outside for a few minutes to check for damage. We couldn't see much because it was totally black outside, except for flashlights. We didn't go far from our yard, so we didn't see the whole neighborhood during eye. Our car was parked outside, and looked OK. Then, the winds began again, and we went back inside. It was even worse. We expected to die but we didn't panic. We are all Christians in our family, so we had peace about death. But listening to the crashing, and feeling the walls move was still scary.

Finally, it was morning. The sun came up, and we could see the damages. Our yard wasn't bad. It was waist-deep in broken tree limbs and leaves but no trees fell in our yard. Our fence gate blew off the hinges but was easy to fix. The car was damaged but it was weird. Our car was maroon color but it looked green. It had thousands of pieces of green leaves stuck on it, like decoupage. When I opened the car doors, there were pieces of leaves inside the car (but no water).

As we looked up the street, we saw much more devastation. Trees were on roofs, on cars, on the street. We had no electricity or running water. The land line phones did work. We had a battery radio but the closest station we could get was from Florida. All the radio and TV stations in the Charleston area were wiped out.

We drove around the local towns looking for friends and helping them because they had worse damage. One family of friends had all the pine trees fall on their house, crisscrossing the roof. You could see the sky from inside their house, which was full of wet insulation and pine trees. The trees also fell on their car and truck. We helped them for a while, then went on to the next town.

It was very hard to find places. Every (and I mean every) street sign, billboard, and traffic light was gone. We couldn't even recognize familiar neighborhoods. For one family that we checked on, we had to leave our car and go several blocks on foot in her subdivision. We climbed over, and crawled under the huge trees that blockaded the roads.

We didn't have it so bad as many people. We got water back in less than a week, and electricity in a couple of weeks. But many neighborhoods had no water or electricity for months.

We had to be careful how much gas we used because there was no gas for sale because there was no electricity. Hubby had a special pass from the Navy so he could travel beyond curfew. He went to another town inland, about 50 miles, to get gas, ice and supplies for our neighborhood. The National Guardsmen let him thru because he had a permission letter from his commanding officer.

Hurricane Hugo 1989

sara1981 · 05-17-2008, 01:44 AM

my aunt and uncle,cousin lives in Stuttgart,Ar have little damages after torando but still clean-up and also several storms too.

i went tours throught busniess,stores,golf course,gas and home have several damages dues torando last weekend before mother's day and my Aunt took pics everythings include my Uncle's work got damages and automobiles i says oh WOW! and also i saw movie gallery got whole damages! but i cant enter movie store but im just look and i says oh my!

but im sure my uncle's work will repairs very soon

Freaky Cat · 05-17-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Reba

I've experienced small earthquakes, and several small or close hurricanes.

The worst experience was Hurricane Hugo in 1989. It hit our area in South Carolina during the night, with 140 mph winds. It was awful, worse because we couldn't see anything in the dark. We lived in a one-story ranch house at the time. Hubby, our daughter, our two Labs, two cats, and I spent the night in our hallway. It was the safest area because it was in the middle of the house, no windows. We kept hearing loud crashing noises and whistling wind. The inside walls of the hallway kept heaving in and out, like breathing. In the middle of the night, there was a brief period of quiet during the passing of the eye. We went outside for a few minutes to check for damage. We couldn't see much because it was totally black outside, except for flashlights. We didn't go far from our yard, so we didn't see the whole neighborhood during eye. Our car was parked outside, and looked OK. Then, the winds began again, and we went back inside. It was even worse. We expected to die but we didn't panic. We are all Christians in our family, so we had peace about death. But listening to the crashing, and feeling the walls move was still scary.

Finally, it was morning. The sun came up, and we could see the damages. Our yard wasn't bad. It was waist-deep in broken tree limbs and leaves but no trees fell in our yard. Our fence gate blew off the hinges but was easy to fix. The car was damaged but it was weird. Our car was maroon color but it looked green. It had thousands of pieces of green leaves stuck on it, like decoupage. When I opened the car doors, there were pieces of leaves inside the car (but no water).

As we looked up the street, we saw much more devastation. Trees were on roofs, on cars, on the street. We had no electricity or running water. The land line phones did work. We had a battery radio but the closest station we could get was from Florida. All the radio and TV stations in the Charleston area were wiped out.

We drove around the local towns looking for friends and helping them because they had worse damage. One family of friends had all the pine trees fall on their house, crisscrossing the roof. You could see the sky from inside their house, which was full of wet insulation and pine trees. The trees also fell on their car and truck. We helped them for a while, then went on to the next town.

It was very hard to find places. Every (and I mean every) street sign, billboard, and traffic light was gone. We couldn't even recognize familiar neighborhoods. For one family that we checked on, we had to leave our car and go several blocks on foot in her subdivision. We climbed over, and crawled under the huge trees that blockaded the roads.

We didn't have it so bad as many people. We got water back in less than a week, and electricity in a couple of weeks. But many neighborhoods had no water or electricity for months.

We had to be careful how much gas we used because there was no gas for sale because there was no electricity. Hubby had a special pass from the Navy so he could travel beyond curfew. He went to another town inland, about 50 miles, to get gas, ice and supplies for our neighborhood. The National Guardsmen let him thru because he had a permission letter from his commanding officer.

Hurricane Hugo 1989

I remember Hugo as my class were talking about it and how we hope it didnt leave damages in the wake but sadly it did.

Wow thanks for sharing your experience with us. I am sure it was very scary to go thru that. You must have been very brave to stay at your home instead of going to shelter! Whew!

gmcman1996 · 05-22-2008, 09:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Freaky Cat

I remember Hugo as my class were talking about it and how we hope it didnt leave damages in the wake but sadly it did.

Wow thanks for sharing your experience with us. I am sure it was very scary to go thru that. You must have been very brave to stay at your home instead of going to shelter! Whew!

Nah... Katrina outdid Hugo... Slapped New Orleans upside down... Guess New Orleans isn't the same, ever since... Blame it on mayor, Governor, and George Bush, for slow response to help be sent to New Orleans....

Never understand why help was quick in New York, on 9/11 but slow getting help to New Orleans.... Shame on all 3 morons.. Mayor, Governor, and Bush.. All 3 should be sued for loss of life, and homes, and all or better I'd take care of that with my trusted

jiro123 · 05-22-2008, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by gmcman1996

Nah... Katrina outdid Hugo... Slapped New Orleans upside down... Guess New Orleans isn't the same, ever since... Blame it on mayor, Governor, and George Bush, for slow response to help be sent to New Orleans....

Never understand why help was quick in New York, on 9/11 but slow getting help to New Orleans.... Shame on all 3 morons.. Mayor, Governor, and Bush.. All 3 should be sued for loss of life, and homes, and all or better I'd take care of that with my trusted

Actually no - FEMA did extraordinary great job in handling New Orleans. There were over 100,000 emergency personnels within 3 days and dozens and dozens of Coast Guards + National Guards were mobilized to search for survivors within couple hours. The largest mobilization ever in very short amount of time. They have rescued over 33,000 survivors. You have to understand that it is NOT FEMA nor Federal Government's responsibility to handle this crisis. It is local and state matters. Blame Louisiana, not Bush or incompetent Michael Brown. FEMA ARE NOT first responders. They are simply an organization run by people who can coordinate responses and provide federal fund.

The people were issued a voluntary evacuation order. MANY MANY people choose not to leave. Of course many of them were too poor to leave as well.

DO NOT SOLELY BLAME federal government on this mess. Also it is THOSE people who choose to live in high-hazard area. They understood the risk of living in New Orleans. Yes we can blame local bureaucrats for failing to provide fund to fix the levees. But oh come on.... stop being a crybaby. How the hell are we supposed to foresee ANY problems at any time? There's a crack on my wall. Contractor tells me there is a chance my wall can collapse someday. Does this mean I have to pay to fix crack every single time I see the crack? Can you imagine if we have to repair every single bridges in USA? We'd be broke and stay broke for at least 20 years!!!

The lesson of this is - KNOW VERY WELL of the risk level of your area is. Are you flood-proned? tornado-proned? Always have evacuation plan for yourself.

and one more thing - that's not fair to compare 9/11 to New Orleans. 9/11 has no environmental difficulty and no mass evacuation. It's just 2 collapsing buildings in a very localized area. But New Orleans? you're talking about Category-5 Hurricane + levee collapses + flooding + evacuation of 1.5 million people.

NorCal20 · 05-22-2008, 10:28 AM

i mentioned in other thread in somewhere.

IN 2002, i drove my 4x4 Tahoe all the way from Rochester to DC to visit my girlfriend. That time we had a weather is snow but i didnt know that there will snowstorm upcoming approached in southeast Pennsylvania. Were in that place of storm and happened hailstorm was poured, i drove and allow my brake release (didnt not attempt to brake) and controlling my steering wheel. There were black ice spot and my suv slipped right through and spinned, then front of suv (grilled mask) boomed and continue slipping till end of the wall between the highways. Thank god that there is no cars accidents front of me, and i decided to brake the pedal and my suv almost flip but lucky got it down and saw: GASOLINE SEMI TRUCK passed by right front of me!!! I was so SCARED like i saw Freddy came out from the movie. I often imagined if i didnt brake the pedal: gone to heaven. Jeez, i got second chance. Thank god.

Yes, my 4x4 Tahoe is terrible whacked on front

NorCal20 · 05-22-2008, 10:30 AM

i experienced a lot of earthquakes, you know where i came from- North california. 1989 Quake is my worse experience as survivor of earthquake as known as "The Bridge of the Quake" or "World Series Quake".

gmcman1996 · 05-22-2008, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by jiro123

Actually no - FEMA did extraordinary great job in handling New Orleans. There were over 100,000 emergency personnels within 3 days and dozens and dozens of Coast Guards + National Guards were mobilized to search for survivors within couple hours. The largest mobilization ever in very short amount of time. They have rescued over 33,000 survivors. You have to understand that it is NOT FEMA nor Federal Government's responsibility to handle this crisis. It is local and state matters. Blame Louisiana, not Bush or incompetent Michael Brown. FEMA ARE NOT first responders. They are simply an organization run by people who can coordinate responses and provide federal fund.

The people were issued a voluntary evacuation order. MANY MANY people choose not to leave. Of course many of them were too poor to leave as well.

DO NOT SOLELY BLAME federal government on this mess. Also it is THOSE people who choose to live in high-hazard area. They understood the risk of living in New Orleans. Yes we can blame local bureaucrats for failing to provide fund to fix the levees. But oh come on.... stop being a crybaby. How the hell are we supposed to foresee ANY problems at any time? There's a crack on my wall. Contractor tells me there is a chance my wall can collapse someday. Does this mean I have to pay to fix crack every single time I see the crack? Can you imagine if we have to repair every single bridges in USA? We'd be broke and stay broke for at least 20 years!!!

The lesson of this is - KNOW VERY WELL of the risk level of your area is. Are you flood-proned? tornado-proned? Always have evacuation plan for yourself.

and one more thing - that's not fair to compare 9/11 to New Orleans. 9/11 has no environmental difficulty and no mass evacuation. It's just 2 collapsing buildings in a very localized area. But New Orleans? you're talking about Category-5 Hurricane + levee collapses + flooding + evacuation of 1.5 million people.

Matter of fact.. My best friend, who lives across the street, is one of the lucky refugees to get the hell out of New Orleans.. Yes.. They gave a 2 week advance warning.. for people to get out... but see.. the people were poor, but did not have cars... and since Louisiana spent 5.8 million dollars on a total fix up top to bottom of the Governor's Mansion... Just wasted that money.. for nothing.. The Louisiana government, is so damn corrupt.. There is no way to clean it up... Hence Louisiana has had a long and distinquished history of corruption within it's state government... Mind you me.. Huey P. Long was one to name... Remember the movie Blaze Starr, with Paul Newman playing that role as Huey P. Long.. and so damned corrupt as hell..

Me have no worries, about flood issues.. Cuz I am in ALABAMA and in one hell of a very good spot... Careful where you pick your location to live...

TweetyBird · 05-22-2008, 05:05 PM

tonight will be bad storm

gmcman1996 · 05-22-2008, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TweetyBird

tonight will be bad storm

Oh shit.. not again!

Mother Nature needs a bullet up her ass for trying to ruin Memorial Day Weekend...

Oceanblue7 · 05-22-2008, 05:38 PM

No storms just lots of rain here which is very unusual for this time of year.

jiro123 · 05-22-2008, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by gmcman1996

Matter of fact.. My best friend, who lives across the street, is one of the lucky refugees to get the hell out of New Orleans.. Yes.. They gave a 2 week advance warning.. for people to get out... but see.. the people were poor, but did not have cars... and since Louisiana spent 5.8 million dollars on a total fix up top to bottom of the Governor's Mansion... Just wasted that money.. for nothing.. The Louisiana government, is so damn corrupt.. There is no way to clean it up... Hence Louisiana has had a long and distinquished history of corruption within it's state government... Mind you me.. Huey P. Long was one to name... Remember the movie Blaze Starr, with Paul Newman playing that role as Huey P. Long.. and so damned corrupt as hell..

yup yup pretty much. and also one of the most corrupted police forces in USA as well. I think the lesson that the government learned from this is to effectively account for people who are poor to move.

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Me have no worries, about flood issues.. Cuz I am in ALABAMA and in one hell of a very good spot... Careful where you pick your location to live...

alabama!?!? a hick town! you redneck or something! I joke I joke. a very good spot? hmm not prone to tornado or whatsoever?

JClarke · 05-22-2008, 10:32 PM

I remember that bridge which collasped in LA in 1994 or something - I saw it on TV and I remember when I went to the States in 1999, the tour bus took us to the excat bridge where it was collpased, they now have steel braces underneath the bridge to avoid repeatition. I believe it has been there ever since I saw it in 1999.

jiro123 · 05-22-2008, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jclarke

I remember that bridge which collasped in LA in 1994 or something - I saw it on TV and I remember when I went to the States in 1999, the tour bus took us to the excat bridge where it was collpased, they now have steel braces underneath the bridge to avoid repeatition. I believe it has been there ever since I saw it in 1999.

wasn't it earthquake?

JClarke · 05-22-2008, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jiro123

wasn't it earthquake?

Oh sorry I was referring to the earthquake, yes

Blackpaws76 · 05-23-2008, 12:26 AM

Hey guys and gals... Colorado got hit by tornado (6 tornadoes) May 22 at noon. Windsor (one hour and half north of Denver) got hit badly by tornado.

I was at home when it happened. I live in Firestone (would say 30 minutes from Windsor). Tornado siren went off in Firestone since someone spotted a tornado 4 miles west of Firestone/Frederick/Dacono. (lucky that my next door was home and telling me that siren went off since I could not hear that siren went off!!!) NOTHING damaged in that area but WINDSOR HAVE a lot of damages - destroyed the homes and people have no power.

here is the link that you can check this out about tornadoes hitting Colorado: 9NEWS - Top News Article - Ritter says Coloradans will respond to help tornado victims

gmcman1996 · 05-25-2008, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Blackpaws76

Hey guys and gals... Colorado got hit by tornado (6 tornadoes) May 22 at noon. Windsor (one hour and half north of Denver) got hit badly by tornado.

I was at home when it happened. I live in Firestone (would say 30 minutes from Windsor). Tornado siren went off in Firestone since someone spotted a tornado 4 miles west of Firestone/Frederick/Dacono. (lucky that my next door was home and telling me that siren went off since I could not hear that siren went off!!!) NOTHING damaged in that area but WINDSOR HAVE a lot of damages - destroyed the homes and people have no power.

here is the link that you can check this out about tornadoes hitting Colorado: 9NEWS - Top News Article - Ritter says Coloradans will respond to help tornado victims

Yeah, saw that... One of the tornadoes was a big one... F-4 or F-5 in a big field... Geeezzzzz!

05-17-2008, 01:44 AM	#32 (permalink)
sara1981 Batista's Fans Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: North Little Rock,Ar Posts: 2,813	my aunt and uncle,cousin lives in Stuttgart,Ar have little damages after torando but still clean-up and also several storms too. i went tours throught busniess,stores,golf course,gas and home have several damages dues torando last weekend before mother's day and my Aunt took pics everythings include my Uncle's work got damages and automobiles i says oh WOW! and also i saw movie gallery got whole damages! but i cant enter movie store but im just look and i says oh my! but im sure my uncle's work will repairs very soon __________________

05-22-2008, 10:28 AM	#36 (permalink)
NorCal20 -superdorky :o) Join Date: May 2008 Location: Golden State Posts: 1,480	i mentioned in other thread in somewhere. IN 2002, i drove my 4x4 Tahoe all the way from Rochester to DC to visit my girlfriend. That time we had a weather is snow but i didnt know that there will snowstorm upcoming approached in southeast Pennsylvania. Were in that place of storm and happened hailstorm was poured, i drove and allow my brake release (didnt not attempt to brake) and controlling my steering wheel. There were black ice spot and my suv slipped right through and spinned, then front of suv (grilled mask) boomed and continue slipping till end of the wall between the highways. Thank god that there is no cars accidents front of me, and i decided to brake the pedal and my suv almost flip but lucky got it down and saw: GASOLINE SEMI TRUCK passed by right front of me!!! I was so SCARED like i saw Freddy came out from the movie. I often imagined if i didnt brake the pedal: gone to heaven. Jeez, i got second chance. Thank god. Yes, my 4x4 Tahoe is terrible whacked on front __________________ Phil.4:13- "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"

05-22-2008, 10:30 AM	#37 (permalink)
NorCal20 -superdorky :o) Join Date: May 2008 Location: Golden State Posts: 1,480	i experienced a lot of earthquakes, you know where i came from- North california. 1989 Quake is my worse experience as survivor of earthquake as known as "The Bridge of the Quake" or "World Series Quake". __________________ Phil.4:13- "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me"

05-22-2008, 05:38 PM	#41 (permalink)
Oceanblue7 Going to see the Patriots Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Gillette Stadium Posts: 3,758 Blog Entries: 5	No storms just lots of rain here which is very unusual for this time of year. __________________ All year round Patriots Gal Ps.103:12 He washes our sins away into the ocean

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JClarke J-Boy Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Coming to America -- AUS. Posts: 10,500 Blog Entries: 3	I remember that bridge which collasped in LA in 1994 or something - I saw it on TV and I remember when I went to the States in 1999, the tour bus took us to the excat bridge where it was collpased, they now have steel braces underneath the bridge to avoid repeatition. I believe it has been there ever since I saw it in 1999. __________________

05-16-2008, 09:35 AM	#31 (permalink)
Reba Premium Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 15,969	I've experienced small earthquakes, and several small or close hurricanes. The worst experience was Hurricane Hugo in 1989. It hit our area in South Carolina during the night, with 140 mph winds. It was awful, worse because we couldn't see anything in the dark. We lived in a one-story ranch house at the time. Hubby, our daughter, our two Labs, two cats, and I spent the night in our hallway. It was the safest area because it was in the middle of the house, no windows. We kept hearing loud crashing noises and whistling wind. The inside walls of the hallway kept heaving in and out, like breathing. In the middle of the night, there was a brief period of quiet during the passing of the eye. We went outside for a few minutes to check for damage. We couldn't see much because it was totally black outside, except for flashlights. We didn't go far from our yard, so we didn't see the whole neighborhood during eye. Our car was parked outside, and looked OK. Then, the winds began again, and we went back inside. It was even worse. We expected to die but we didn't panic. We are all Christians in our family, so we had peace about death. But listening to the crashing, and feeling the walls move was still scary. Finally, it was morning. The sun came up, and we could see the damages. Our yard wasn't bad. It was waist-deep in broken tree limbs and leaves but no trees fell in our yard. Our fence gate blew off the hinges but was easy to fix. The car was damaged but it was weird. Our car was maroon color but it looked green. It had thousands of pieces of green leaves stuck on it, like decoupage. When I opened the car doors, there were pieces of leaves inside the car (but no water). As we looked up the street, we saw much more devastation. Trees were on roofs, on cars, on the street. We had no electricity or running water. The land line phones did work. We had a battery radio but the closest station we could get was from Florida. All the radio and TV stations in the Charleston area were wiped out. We drove around the local towns looking for friends and helping them because they had worse damage. One family of friends had all the pine trees fall on their house, crisscrossing the roof. You could see the sky from inside their house, which was full of wet insulation and pine trees. The trees also fell on their car and truck. We helped them for a while, then went on to the next town. It was very hard to find places. Every (and I mean every) street sign, billboard, and traffic light was gone. We couldn't even recognize familiar neighborhoods. For one family that we checked on, we had to leave our car and go several blocks on foot in her subdivision. We climbed over, and crawled under the huge trees that blockaded the roads. We didn't have it so bad as many people. We got water back in less than a week, and electricity in a couple of weeks. But many neighborhoods had no water or electricity for months. We had to be careful how much gas we used because there was no gas for sale because there was no electricity. Hubby had a special pass from the Navy so he could travel beyond curfew. He went to another town inland, about 50 miles, to get gas, ice and supplies for our neighborhood. The National Guardsmen let him thru because he had a permission letter from his commanding officer. Hurricane Hugo 1989

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Blackpaws76 Newbie and Loving It Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Colorado Posts: 97	Tornado in Colorado Hey guys and gals... Colorado got hit by tornado (6 tornadoes) May 22 at noon. Windsor (one hour and half north of Denver) got hit badly by tornado. I was at home when it happened. I live in Firestone (would say 30 minutes from Windsor). Tornado siren went off in Firestone since someone spotted a tornado 4 miles west of Firestone/Frederick/Dacono. (lucky that my next door was home and telling me that siren went off since I could not hear that siren went off!!!) NOTHING damaged in that area but WINDSOR HAVE a lot of damages - destroyed the homes and people have no power. here is the link that you can check this out about tornadoes hitting Colorado: 9NEWS - Top News Article - Ritter says Coloradans will respond to help tornado victims __________________ . Deaf and HOH Love & Dating

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