Re: OT: Severe storm images


"Belba Grubb From Stock" <barbb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> George wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Yes. Go ahead, but I can't guarantee how long I'll keep them up.
>
> Posted at http://www.talkweather.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=318214#318214
>
> Note what I mentioned about your hearing the freight-train sound and the
> wind picking up. You had a closer call there than you knew. It happens
> that way sometimes. Tornadoes do not wait for the siren to announce
> them; they have their own agendas.

Oh I know that I was close. The damage wasn't more that a couple of miles
away. I've heard the sound a couple of times before, but this one, I think
because of the hail, was much louder.

> I've only heard the sound once, during the outbreak we had here on April
> 30 last year, when in retrospect a funnel cloud that had been on the
> ground previously (because it splattered 'green hail' all over the west
> side of my house that didn't come from the local vegetation) passed by
> the NW corner of my house at 4:30 a.m. Heckuva way to be woken up but we
> had no damage here, though the neighbors on either side of me did get a
> little bit. It does sound like a freight train, but this one also had a
> similarity to a conveyor belt. Of course, I wasn't in my most objective
> frame of mind just then (BG).
>

<snip>

> Ah, springtime in the South. But wait, it's only January, isn't it.
> (Shrugs shoulders) Folks who haven't been here in the springtime have to
> take it on faith that the rewards more than compensate for the occasional
> moments of sheer terror.
>
> Thanks again, George, and keep yer feet on the ground there.
>
> Barb

De nada. Will do.

George


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