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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 9:07 am
Same thing here. All night long and still cabooming. Glad you got home ok, Eggie.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 5:31 pm
Rosie, better check around and make sure I am not down there, or you'll be snowed in next.
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:11 pm
....oh my heck! LOL.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:15 pm
lots of thunder and rain here. lightning strikes real close to thunder sound and torrential downpours. our dsl was out for hours, which was a bummer!
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:23 pm
Tebs, It was stormy most of the day my way. Lots of lightening and thunder and big downpours of rain....the cats and dawgs type. The sun finally broke through around 4pm.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 10:29 pm
LOL, Juju bite your tongue! It poured, thundered, and lots of lightening til about 3:30 this afternoon. Are we done now? Never did get over 70 though, which is probably a good thing. Early this morning it was just miserable with the humidity.
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Spygirl
Board Administrator
04-23-2001
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:31 pm
CNN just broke into their coverage of the Jet Blue airplane that is going to have to make an emergency landing at LAX (landing gear on the nose malfunctioned), they are reporting that there is a tornado on the ground in the middle of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Unfreakin' believable. Tess - are you okay up there??
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Abby7
Member
07-17-2002
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:44 pm
yep, 3 major stories going on. again, prayers for everyone's safety!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:52 pm
The pilot talking with Paula Zahn was on the United flight that crashed in Sioux City....I think he was either the captain or the pilot who was a passenger who wrestled with the hydrolics/flaps (whatever they used to turn). Maybe not news to you, but thanks Spy for making me change the channel from Martha Stewart. I remember sitting here in the exact same way for the Sioux City flight.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 6:22 pm
Looks like a safe landing at LAX....bravo to the pilot! I think that Tess will be ok in MPLS, the tornado was on the other side of the city.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 8:22 pm
Has anyone heard from Tess yet? Was that just a freak tornado? I've been watching the news a lot lately and hadn't heard about Minneapolis getting ready to have one. We saw the plane coverage and saw it landing safely, didn't see much after that though. Was everyone on board ok?
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:01 pm
Tess posted in Hippy's folder, so I'm thinking she's okay ...
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:16 pm
We watched the plane land safely (while hiding from the tornadoes here) and then flipped back to our own weather coverage. Everyone on the plane is fine. The pilot did an amazing job landing. Flames shot out from the front tire when he finally set the nose down and both tires blew out but the strut held (as it was supposed to do) and the fire never posed a danger to those in the plane itself even though it looked scary as heck! We're all fine here. The storm just barely skimmed by us to the north and the worst we got was rain and wind shear. No damage that we can tell in the dark. The suburbs just north and west of us have heavy damage and no power and won't have power for quite awhile. Three huge power towers were taken out. And that's just a small part. The storms haven't ended here. Keep getting more waves and can hear the thunder. It was 88 at our house but 68 (or cooler) just 90 miles north and when those 2 air masses collide, all heck breaks loose like it did tonight. No one is allowed on the streets in Fridley which appears to be hardest hit. No one that I know of from TVCH is located precisely there though there are several TVCHers here in the metro area. There was one fatality as a man was killed by a falling tree, some localized flooding, lots of property damage, widespread power outage, lots of trees down. One of the big power towers collapsed because a driver skidded and couldn't stop. Hit the tower and his car slid under it as it fell. The driver is unhurt, thank goodness. Anyway, though it's not all quiet here by any means, we're fine. I was so glad to get a lull in the storm long enough to watch the plane land. I was more worried about the people on the plane than I was about us. Miss Sarah was scared nearly witless about both. I'm just witless by nature so all's well. 
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:30 pm
Yowsa!
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Tess
Member
04-13-2001
| Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 12:39 am
Wave 2 was a bit more interesting at our house but I rode it out while in chat with War and Ladyt. The family is just fine and all is quiet for now. Will inspect the yard and house exterior tomorrow. No trees fell on us which is always my biggest fear. Our house is surrounded by very large, tall trees. The wind speed in "hurricane terms" was a category 1 only here they are straight line. Don't have much reliable info about the earlier tornadoes.....ie what they rate on the Fujita scale. Just another night in Minnesota with the crazy weather year we've had.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 5:14 am
Glad to hear you are okay Tess and Sarah. Two nights ago we had a windy night that left a large limb lying in the middle of the back yard. S/central Texas is going to have a 100º day today with 20 mph winds and poor air quality. The N/S highways are all full and moving slowly. Schools are being closed in some areas for the rest of the week. Landfall of Hurricane Rita is expected early Saturday morning near Port Lavaca - southwest of Galveston.
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Marej
Member
09-20-2002
| Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 10:39 am
I live about a hour & a half north of Tess and we didn't even have rain.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 11:16 am
Thunder storms in Los Angeles? In October? What's the world coming to?
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Reiki
Member
08-12-2000
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 2:28 pm
It has been windy and raining in this part of New York ever since I got home from Nashville on last Tuesday. We have had intermittent power outages and tree limbs coming down in the neighborhood. There has been some flooding in the surrounding areas, but Albany is high enough elevation not to worry, so far . The Hudson is getting pretty high and the many creeks and streams feeding into are high and running fast. No rain or wind today but it is getting pretty chilly out there.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 2:39 pm
Tish there was snow somewhere in so cal yesterday too! That just shocks me, it seems way too soon. It's not that cold here (sweatshirt weather really) but very windy. I found my patio chairs had blown across the porch sometime last night and into the driveway and they're not that light! It's been drizzling on and off all day today. No ore thunder or lightening since early (about 2-3am) this morning. Reiki is that normal weather for ya'll at this time of year? Ours is totally bizarre. Usually around here it's 85 or so this time of year and then Halloween night is the first real cold day for us. Last week we had temps in the upper 90's, week before that it was cold, it's very odd.
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 9:11 pm
Mother Nature just had to throw in an earthquake on top of this rain didn't she?!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 9:19 pm
4.0 near Cabazon
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 9:25 pm
Ack, Rosie. Our weather got much worse this afternoon. Took my niece home and we got hit with sheets of rain, high winds, and flooding. When we were coming home about an hour later from the car dealership water was actually gushing out of manhole covers and planters along the streets. that was very odd!
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Rosie
Member
11-12-2003
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 9:27 pm
War, I think everyone is getting unusual weather. Heavy rain off and on all day but it did not rain for very long at one time. Landslides in Burbank fire area.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, October 17, 2005 - 10:23 pm
Rosie, I am not within a thousand miles. Really. Well, I guess you knew that. It's not snowing yet, is it?
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