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Rosie
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11-12-2003

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
That daycare center that got over 100 children over to the bank was awesome!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
I didn't see that Rosie. Just heard on Channel 7 that over 100 people were brought to the Med Center with injuries.

Now they are locking down Ft. Collins schools.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
And we've been given the all clear! Yay!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Sis is fine. Well, weather wise anyway. Her kitty passed away this morning, so she's in a pretty depressed state.

Phones are working. We called over to Milliken with no problems. But sis said she tried to call us earlier and couldn't get through. The power is out at their house too.

We're watching Channel 4. I just can't believe all the damage in Windsor. My heart goes out to them.

Guinluvsc is staying at her Dad's house (house sitting) somewhere north of Ft. Collins. Hope she's ok!

Other sis's house is in Cheyenne, and the storms seem to be moving in that direction. But at least she's currently visiting BIL's family in Virginia right now.

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Well, tentative all clear anyway. We still have a watch out till 8pm tonight for most of Northern CO.

I'm assuming you came through unscathed Kar?

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Who, I'm okay. Just going out now to check on the horses and the trees!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 12:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Well, not so bad. Got some fence down, and an aluminum gate twisted in half. Some big branches, and a few birdhouses. Nothing major!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 1:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    
Whew. Good to hear that Kar. I hope your horses are ok!

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
The death toll is now up to three....

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 2:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Juju2bigdog a private message Print Post    
Wow! I don't think I have ever heard of a tornado in Colorado before. Glad y'all are okay.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
(((((Kar, Who, Rosie, and everyone else who was in harm's way!))))) Just heard about it now. Geez, it sounds absolutely terrifying! Glad it's over.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 4:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Kar, I had no idea of your situation.. hold on tight.. hope you have some place to hunker down.

Rosie.. seems like there are TORNADO warnings and flash flood too in SO Cal.. Riverside county, so please be safe, Sincebb1, Emmy, Starshine, Scooter and anyone else in threatened areas. I'm hoping Pamy doesn't have a crazy drive home. Also slides/flooding in areas where there were fires, so Beek, stay safe there.. I know there are problems all too near to you, if not right there! What is bizarre is that other than wind and some overcast, all is fine (for now) near the beach.. of course if there are floods that could funnel down here but the So Cal areas of concern are more inland for now.

And yes, Karin, hope the horses stay safe too.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 4:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
San Gabriel Valley added too..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Good on the all clear for Who and extended family and Kar too..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 5:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Dovez, if you are "up the hill".. SNOW?? I guess they had hail in Placentia too..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 5:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
OMG, I spoke too soon about right here... great big roll of thunder right now! And in the last few minutes they put up coastal flood warning and high surf advisory too. And rain too.. I had no idea..

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 5:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Actual twister in Moreno Valley! (admittedly it is a little one compared to most, but we don't actually get tornadoes here, much at all)

Texasdeb
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05-23-2003

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 5:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Texasdeb a private message Print Post    
Hot & windy here in Abilene, TX today

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 6:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    
Glad things seem to have settled down in Colorado.

SEA, I was watching CNN while the storm hit Colorado and I was not about to mention that it was raining here. It was just rain.

Now is another story. Getting pounded with rain, thunder, lightning.

Tornado reported on a golf course in Riverside, a few minutes ago.

Another one south of Riverside.

Storm re-grouping and heading back to you, SEA.

Waiting for Pamy to check in...

ETA: Just saw a Pamy post in a reality thread. Yay.

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Our tornado warnings/watches are now completely over. Lots of devastation in Windsor, my heart goes out to those who have lost their homes. It's really a mess. They've evacuated one neighborhood and not allowing anyone in until tomorrow.

We're all fine; but my DS is pretty traumatized. They had the kiddos move to a central room with no windows and kept them sitting under tables for 2-1/2 hours! They weren't allowed to phone home, and were given very little information. Kids were crying, hysterical....many were thinking their parents were dead. You can bet that school is going to get some strong feedback from me tomorrow!

Treasure
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06-26-2002

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 7:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Treasure a private message Print Post    
I am really glad that your tornados in Colorado are over and sorry about the devastation that occurred. My local news was reporting one death.

Yep, Kar, I bet you will have a lot to say to the school officials. Why would they not try to relieve the worry of those kids!

Sea and Rosie and all you Californians, looks like you all are having it really rough....AGAIN!!

Thing is, your weather pattern is doing strange things here, too. Usually, the weather fronts are still coming at us from the west. That is, you get it and we get what ever makes it over the mountains.

But there is a massive jet stream that is coming all the way down your coastline to Baja and then making a sharp u-turn right up over Arizona! It is bringing us the strangest of strange weather.

Oh, and usually during the summer months (mostly July and August) the weather patterns do come up from the south, but not that sharp u-turn like this one. It should be later and it should be more gradually moving over into Mexico before it comes up to us.

No pending disasters, just strange! It is SNOWING in Flagstaff,(northern AZ) right now!! Local weather reporters are saying they already have 3 to 4 inches on the ground and it could be over a foot of snow by the weekend. There have been very heavy thunderstorms in Southern AZ all day. This afternoon Phoenix was hit with spotty but heavy rains. Some places even had HAIL!! It is suppose to be fairly steady rain tomorrow. Now that may sound ok in most places, but here is the thing. May usually only has about .l2 inches of moisture...in the whole month!

Well, as strange as this all is, I do hope that there is lots of rain in the Santa Cruz mountains to help put out that fire.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I didn't get much in comparison.. I'm worried about the fire areas.. I know there have been slides in Modjeska (where I once lived) and close to Beekindpleez. Didn't know about more twisters but the "cells" over that county looked really nasty.

At the moment I just have flood and high surf warnings for my area and being 4 miles inland I'm not worried about the high surf.. that is just to warn people from getting too close.

I'm not surprised about your snow and hail, Treasure.. snow here up in Big Bear and hail in Placentia, not too far from where Scooter lives.

It has stopped raining here, for now.

Beekindpleez
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07-18-2006

Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 8:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Beekindpleez a private message Print Post    
Bad day here in Trabuco. Two...yes, two...major flash floods.
First one hit shortly before noon. DH and I were about to go out, and it started to rain. Then it started to thunder and lightening. Then major rain. We went out to check the road, the fence, etc. and he was up on the berm making sure the water was flowing when I heard something. I turned, and saw a five or six foot wall of mud and water headed right toward him. This flow of mud/water was filled with boulders the size of beach balls and larger, huge portions of trees that had burned in October, lots of football sized rocks, chicken coops, fencing. I've never in my life seen anything like this. There were pieces of tree trunks that neighbors had chopped up...huge pieces, like the kind you might sit on...and they were bobbing in this like corks. I screamed to him to jump, that it was coming and he literally missed this by a second. It just kept coming and coming. We could feel the ground shaking, like an earthquake. And the boulders and rocks were clinking against eachother like marbles. We stood and watched as it continued for fifteen or twenty minutes, all the while pouring down rain. (We later heard that it rained an inch in ten minutes) We watched trash cans (still filled with garbage) roll and break up in this wall of mud. We watched as it took out fences and gates, rock walls and cut four foot deep crevices in the dirt along the sides of the road. It was one of the most frightening events I've ever seen...and I have been in several strong earthquakes, including the great one in Alaska in the '60s, and tornadoes. I am still reeling from it.
However...no one was hurt, no homes were destroyed...so I can be nothing but grateful.

We set to work immediately. Neighbors came with bobcats and tractors, shovels and hoes and we unburied cages and such to set trapped animals free. We mangaged to carve enough of the mud out for emergency vehicles to get through...and when they did, they came in and told us we were under mandatory evacuation. Sirens blaring, loudspeakers yelling. But they also understand that we are a different breed out here and knew none of us were going to leave.
We worked all day, and just as we had most of the road safe to travel again, another storm came crashing through. This one was not as big as the first one, but managed to undo most of the road clearing we had achieved.

We are now in the house, fire blazing, wet work gloves and boots drying by it. I have just received another reverse 911 call that says the mandatory evacuation remains in place. But we're not leaving. (We will, if we feel in true danger)

Sea...you may be interested to know that Cook's Corner took quite a beating today. The creek overflowed and the mud went inside. So, even our "place of refuge" in times of danger suffered this go-around. I've heard it's horrible in Modjeska, too.

Been a pretty rough seven months or so here in my household.

My thoughts and prayers go out to those involved in even worse catastophes today. May you and all your loved ones stay safe.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 12:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
I had a feeling you were hit like that. And you are right, there was that much rain all at once in more than one place. I've also heard Modjeska is bad, and I "think" it might have been shown on tv but it might have been one of the other narrow canyon roads with trees meeting overhead. Cook's Corners was shown sweeping out water that was flowing through. Moreno Valley had three twisters touch down, flipped a huge big rig and scattered freight cars on a train

I'm glad you could save those poor caged animals!

Hope it misses you tomorrow..

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Friday, May 23, 2008 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
oh dear, Beekind. That sounds scary and awful. Stay safe!