T-storms and Sharknados

Hope everyone is safe with the storms and tornados that recently battered the midwest and are moving through the south

All we got is cold and rain. Not even a little hail to claim against the MINI.

SWMBO's dad was doing clean-up/recovery in Vilonia, AR, his opinion is that the damage is worse than the when he was doing clean-up after the '11 tornado that hit the town. Last nights tornado took almost the exact same path as the '11 tornado.

Rumor-mill is that the death toll is going to increase as clean up gets well underway. Eleven deaths in Vilonia now. Recovery effort has been ceased.

Vilonia lost ~90% of their businesses.

Edit: Fifteen now, confirmed deaths in Arkansas as of the moment.

What should be a 20-30 minute trip from Conway to Little Rock is now a 2+ hour trip.

Got better updates on family in area, significant home damage, a lot of trees down, fences down, Uncle had to euthanize their bull, tree feel on it and broke it's back. Immediate family made it mostly unscathed. The fatality in El Paso/White Co (AR not TX, my hometown). was a distant relative/family friend. Sickening to think how terrified she had to have been when her house was hit. News said she was found 200 Yds from where her house was.

Governor Beebe, mentioned during his press conference that one of the deaths, the victim was actually in their safe room, the house is completely gone, safe room still standing, but the door was caved in on the victim.

Continue to pray, send good thoughts/vibes, whatever your religious leanings may be, there's a lot of folks in the area in pain/need right now.

Sounds like it's giving Mississippi the business now, stay safe folks!

• Lee

Dr. Hess is an Arkansan; I hope he checks in to let us know everything is ok in his world.

The Weather Channel looked to be pretty useful this afternoon by skipping the usual sensationalizing and providing good real time coverage. This is a big, slow moving and violent system so the misery is far from over. We'll see how they do tomorrow when the e36m3 hits the fan in the Atlanta area.

At least I'll get to see how well Juan did when he cleaned the gutters this weekend.

And then when the storm gets past atl, greenville/spartenburg will be next up then here around charlotte. They are calling for 3-5 inches of rain here by the time its all done

We're OK up here in NW AR. The worst was at about 11PM last night. We went to our "safe room," downstairs bathroom, and waited it out there. Lexuses were in garages with only the Camry and RN Truck outside, besides a Europa body. Small hail and wind, plus rain is about all we had, fortunately.

There was a tornado in Quapaw, OK in the NE corner, however, that killed 2. You don't hear about that one. It was maybe 30 miles from Joplin, 70 miles from us.

http://www.thv11.com/videos/news/local/2014/04/28/8438433/

In reply to oldsaw:

In my experience, you would be better off browsing NOAA's website from your smartphone......

Glad our members are chiming in safe & sound(knocks on wood)

My Dad had a near miss in northern Alabama. The high school that was hit in the Athens area is about 2 miles from his house. He is more down the hill in the river valley so it's not as common for him to get hit. It was a mess though. Hopefully he gets power back soon.

all we've gotten (so far) is heavy rain with lighting and high winds … no power outages, no tornados (they really don't do well here in the mountains, though we do get the occasional one), no flooding (yet) … we'll see how the rest of the week goes

I see a few shingles in the yard but can't quite see where they came from. I sure as berkeley am not going up on the roof in 30+ mph winds so... I hope I don't figure out where they go from relative position of a bucket.

wbjones wrote: all we've gotten (so far) is heavy rain with lighting and high winds … no power outages, no tornados (they really don't do well here in the mountains, though we do get the occasional one), no flooding (yet) … we'll see how the rest of the week goes

That part that hit you swept right by me and never saw a drop at my house, we are expected to get pounded here with bad t-storms this afternoon

Just some thunder so far here, but the dog is ready. She is under the dining room table at this very moment.

1pm 4/30, haven't seen anything but clouds and breeze here in The Armpit of South Cackalackey.

more rain last night … don't think it was as bad as the night before

dry right now … time to start loading the car for CMP

Rain and wind was all I had to put up with. The news had to scare everybody with coverage of one of last year's tornadoes. Sweet....

Just rain here in central MD. Have had 2.17" since midnight and 3.58" since it started Monday night. They are saying we might get 5+" by the time it is all over. Sister-in-law called this morning to tell the wife she wouldn't be coming in to town, road to house is flooded and she can't get out to the main road. Probably will be stuck at home for another day, but she is used to that.

One of the subdivisions blown away in Vilonia, Before & After areal shots. http://imgur.com/a/1KQ6N

I heard on the news this morning that Northern Florida/Alabama got 23" of rain in 24 hours. That's arc building weather!

Meanwhile it's 90+ degrees in SD with strong Santa Ana (hot and dry) winds. Annoying, but a lot better than the alternatives. Unless a wildfire breaks out

bigdaddylee82 wrote: One of the subdivisions blown away in Vilonia, Before & After areal shots. http://imgur.com/a/1KQ6N

All that open space surrounding that......stupid population density.

And thats probably middle to high end eF3 damage, we all know cookie cutter homes aren't built worth a berkeley.

I miss the santa annas

we got over 3 inches of rain here in Southern New Jersey.. the Culvert across the street is full and we have some standing water on the pavement from it.

Cone_Junkie wrote: I heard on the news this morning that Northern Florida/Alabama got 23" of rain in 24 hours. That's arc building weather! Meanwhile it's 90+ degrees in SD with strong Santa Ana (hot and dry) winds. Annoying, but a lot better than the alternatives. Unless a wildfire breaks out

I'm guessing that SD is San Diego, and not South Dakota

edit: figured it out …. I looked at your profile …

mad_machine wrote: we got over 3 inches of rain here in Southern New Jersey.. the Culvert across the street is full and we have some standing water on the pavement from it.

Wifes somewhere in southern jersey for business said it was raining like hell there last night. Got pissed when I told her we hadnt had any at that point. Still havent had squat other than a few sprinkles early this morning The weather people have been on all day telling us about how were supposed to get between 3-5 inches by tomorrow afternoon, me thinks their running outta time for that

We had an interesting drive home from the Mitty. Used weather radar to keep up with the storms on Sunday and spent the first night at the MS/AL border on Hwy 82. Went through the tornado track the next morning - wow. Tornados don't leave much behind.

We got some rain and serious thunderstorms, but that was it until we got to Kansas. Then the wind. 35-45 mph head then side winds, with gusts to 65. Part of I-70 was closed due to semis blowing over - we saw about a half dozen. I was fine in the big trailer with the real truck, but the little Toyota with the small trailer was getting pushed all over and lighting up the anti-sway electronics. Oh, and all the topsoil was heading for Mexico, so visibility dropped to 50' occasionally.

Once we'd managed to get to the mountains, we drove into a snowstorm