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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 10:22 pm
Oh my gosh, Hyper. You stay safe, you hear?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 10:23 pm
My Grandma and cousins live about an hour from Springfield, MO...I better call them in the morning, I had no idea. Jbean lives there too
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 11:47 pm
Bee, we're okay here. I was actually outside trying to get the cat inside when I saw the dark clouds start. It was just north of us. Here are some more photos: This was taken in Harvard, IL.

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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 11:49 pm
This one was taken by a 20 year old college student that is a storm chaser. This is by the area 10 miles from me in Caledonia, IL.

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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 11:50 pm
This is the apple orchard owner's home and what is left of the business:

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Beckie03
Member
07-05-2007
| Monday, January 07, 2008 - 11:52 pm
wow that's just crazy. You know for living in California and the only thing we have are earthquakes...I would just like to live through one tornado...that sounds so suicidal of me though LOL LOL
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Hypermom
Member
08-13-2001
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 12:02 am
LOL Beckie! We've had earthquakes here...you can keep them. Last picture. This is the downtown area in Rockford, IL, where I live. No touchdown here, thank goodness.
There are more photos at: www.rrstar.com
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 12:03 am
They are exciting. I love big storms anyway.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 12:11 am
We get earthquakes here all the time too. We don't get too many great storms though. I miss them.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 1:05 am
I lived in Ketchikan in 1964 when they had a 9.2 earthquake. I lived in California in the '70s during a couple of large earthquakes. I've seen one tornado. I prefer earthquakes to tornados.
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Chiliwilli
Member
09-04-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 1:22 am
There was a 9.something earthquake not far from Fairbanks a few years ago. It was in the middle of the Denali fault line. Still wasn't as exciting as a good storm.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 1:23 am
My river nearby is full of fossils and various types of dinosaur bones /(whole bodies) too. the only thing I've ever found looks like a petrified Hip Joint/bone . I am now going to have to go look it up for you. I know that we have a Huge one in the museum here. Almost ten feet across. Amonite or Ammonite Snip* Ammonites' closest living relative is probably not the modern Nautilus (which they outwardly resemble), but rather the subclass Coleoidea (octopus, squid, and cuttlefish). These creatures lived about 400 Million years ago and are used to 'date' the time period when fossils of other kinds are found. became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous (65 m.y.a.) along with the dinosaurs. WHOA here is a neat website with the whole shell fossilized. Yours looks like it from the Jurassic time period. http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Galleries/Ammonites.htm wikipedia has a drawing showing what the whole animal looked like.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 1:28 am
tornados are scarey. I've not seen one BUT did see a funnel cloud /big storm years ago on the prairies. The funnel never made it down to the ground but I still remember the fear as I drove down the hwy. On the flat prairies with all fields, no trees, there would be NO place to hide.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 1:54 am
thanks, sunsh. It's wild to think that fossil rock we found may be some millions of years old. I think I'm going to follow up on Costa's suggestion to take it to a natural history museum.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 3:12 am
OC Natural History Museum 28373 Alicia Parkway Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 949/841-3287
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 4:05 am
definitely Millions of years old.... Cool find! i think that they are quite common in some areas. It would be neat if they ARENT common in yours, I have no idea where you are based but it is Strange to imagine it being a bottom of the ocean eh??
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Dfennessey
Member
07-25-2004
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 8:56 am
It is great to be a New Englander today it is going to be around 60 in the Boston area
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 9:57 am
Sea...thank you! You ROCK. (get it? lol) That is the thing I love about TVCH. People here know so much more than I do and are always willing to share/help/support.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 3:32 pm
Where Bee is and me too was definitely ocean bottom at some point. Beek how big is your fossil rock? If you happen to go to that place in Laguna Niguel, let me know, maybe we can meet up. I want to see the fossil, even if we don't meet there. Sun, that site you posted had stunning pictures! LOL, Beek, I just googled.. took awhile to find one in OC. Of course there is the one in San Diego and the LA La Brea Tar Pit site.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 3:53 pm
Seems like our area is mostly relatively "new" in geologic terms, but there can be some older "rocks". http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~joel/g148_f06/readings/geol_history/geol_history.html
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 4:28 pm
Sea...The rock is being held in my sons hands in that one pic, It's about baseball sized, I'd say. It is a rectangle, about 3x2, two inches tall in front, three in back. And yes...when I make a plan to go, let's DO meet up. Then when they tell me it's worth 10 million dollars, we can run around and celebrate!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 4:55 pm
That's pretty big, I think! Oh yes, I'm good at celebrating 
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 5:02 pm
if they are chopping some of them up to make jewellery, i'm not sure if they are worth terribly much BUT wouldnt it be neat if your rock leads them to a new area to dig up Dinosaurs!!
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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 8:24 pm
OMG, last night was a horrible night. Storm warnings all night long. I went to bed around 10, then at about 2:30 am the tornado warning sirens start to go off...they are so damn loud, they sound like they are right IN your ears. So I turned on the tv...they were saying if you live in the vicinity of (right WHERE I LIVE!) you need to go to your safe area now. I lay there for a minute, thinking about if it was really worth it to get up and go set in the bathroom...I had about decided against it, when the tv station went off the air. That's when I decided it was worth it, and grabbed Lola (who was asleep right by me) and went and set in the bathroom. No sooner did I shut the bathroom door, than I heard a horrible sounding gust of wind...I thought, oh boy, here we go! But it was just straight line wind...no actual tornado where I am, a few minutes later it died down, and I heard the tv station come back up, so I went back and got in bed. they gave the all clear for severe storms HERE, but they were still traveling east. It SUCKED. It was around 3:30 when the sirens finally quit. I was supposed to go in an hour early to work, but I just couldn't do it. Tonight snow is expected. Talk about JACKED UP. I'm ready to pack up and get the hell out of here. Snow, ice and tornadoes? NO PROBLEM. Some neighboring towns got hit pretty hard. 2 deaths in a town about 20 miles east of here...I believe both were elderly women. Horrible. Also in Republic, MO (10 miles west of here) part of the roof was taken off the elementary school, and a roof taken off a house. Tornadoes suck! I'm just so thankful in my whole life living here, and the many tornadoes that have devastated the area throughout the years, that I've never been personally affected by one. I do hate them though.
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Tuesday, January 08, 2008 - 8:31 pm
We are battening down the hatches...
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