Re: ATTN: Rev

Sycho wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:11:58
-0500 it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd
Fredericks <turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following declaration and
shocked the world when the following was announced:

Sycho wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:57:44
-0500 it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd
Fredericks <turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following declaration and
shocked the world when the following was announced:

Sycho wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:24:35
-0500 it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd
Fredericks <turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following declaration and
shocked the world when the following was announced:

Sycho wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:56:24
-0500 it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd
Fredericks <turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following declaration and
shocked the world when the following was announced:

Sycho wrote:
** Update #2 **

SPC has just issued a brand new tornado watch for parts of
central/southern Ohio, parts of central/southern Kentucky, parts of
western West Virginia and eastern Tennessee. This watch will be in
effect until 9 PM EST.

Hail to one half inch and wind gusts to 70 MPH are all possible in and
close to the watch area.
Yeah, I am watching the weather channel right now. The wind is really howling, but not much rain at about 3pm. I live in Jesamine county by the way, just about 1 mile from the Fayette county line (just to the west/southwest). For all intents and purposes anything affecting Fayette will affect us as well. Thanks for the updates.
No problem at all.

The tornado that killed those folks yesterday in Lone Grove, Oklahoma?
I saw that monster on radar before, during and after it hit. The wind
profile on that thing was incredible. I just knew in my gut that one
was going to be a killer. I wish I'd been wrong. :(
That was pretty bad. At least I think the danger is over for us. Watching the weather channel this afternoon they said "prepare for a severe storm, traveling eastwards and has just passed Nicholasville (the town I live in) and is making it's way towards Lexington, it will pass through eastern Jesamine county at 3:05 pm" at the time I saw that it was 3pm. I went to look out the window, and like clockwork the wind racheted up to about 60 mph, and it started to rain horizontally and within 5 minutes the storm was gone. I told my wife who works in the center of Lexington and within 5 minutes it hit her too. So the storm was moving at about 65mph.
The winds were howling here last night as well. Since I no longer have
an anemometer, I have no idea what the actual wind speeds were. So I
would say they were around 60 to 65 MPH gusts easily.
One of the news channels reported gusts in excess of 70mph and some possible tornadoes but that hasn't been confirmed yet
On the day of the high wind there were only two reports sent to SPC on
tornadoes for that day (2/11/2009). One was in Indiana and the other
in Tennessee.

The one in Indiana was rated an E F1 on the enhanced Fujita scale with
a path of approximately two tenths of a mile and was about 100 feet
wide.

The one in Tennessee had brief information, but nothing regarding
strength, width or length of time it was on the ground.

So going to the Nashville, TN NWS office, they confirmed that one was
also an E F1. The damage path was between 50 to 70 yards wide and
traveled for about a half a mile. They reported that the tornado was
on the ground for about a minute or less.

The estimated wind speed for that tornado was about 90 MPH.
I forget where in Kentucky, but there was one area they were looking into that they suspected a tornado, but now the weather is over, I doubt we'll hear anything about it.

Hmm.. It might have been straight lined winds. I'm not sure if you've
heard maybe on the news or a tornado documentary, but there a few
things that the NWS staff does when they survey storm damage. They'll
talk to the people in the area to get eyewitness accounts as well as
examine the damage itself. Both on the ground and from the air.

There's two things they look for in any debris field.. Is the damage
falling in one direction, signs of straight lined winds or is the
damage twisted and scattered in all different directions.. Signs of a
tornado.

Myself I've got myself to the point that after a tornado hits an area
I can tell you within minutes, depending on the structures, what the E
F rating would be.

Here's another interesting and unknown fact that the general public
probably isn't aware of.. In order for a tornado to be given an E F
rating it has to do damage to a structure. If there is no damage
reported or observed, regardless the size and strength of the tornado,
it's automatically given a rating of E F0.

What they showed on the news looked like it had once been a small barn or a trailer, there wasn't much left of it, it looked like a giant rock had been dropped on it.

It knocked out our electricity around 11:30 last night. Power wasn't
restored until around 10:30 this morning.

Off to the north and west of my house you could see bright blue power
flashes from transformers exploding. It really lit up the night sky.
We had power, no problems in that respect. Watching my windows bend in was a bit nerve wracking. I have a large 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 foot window in my kitchen and a couple of 3 X 9 foot windows in my livingroom. The one in the kitchen was actually bending with the wind, it was taking the full force head on. The livingroom ones were too high up to tell, but were facing the same way.
I can imagine what was going through your mind. I was worried about a
large maple tree that's in our backyard. I'm surprised it's still
standing.

A house on my street had one side that faced west blown off. It's
missing siding, wood and some insulation on that part of the house.

The same house suffered minor damage when the remnants of Ike went
through the state last year in September. They had siding blown off
the front of the house near the roof which faces south during that.
I didn't see any real damage in my neighborhood, just storm debris like tree branches and stuff.
No noticeable damage on my property. The only minor damage that I
could see from my front door is across the street from me. The
neighbor's gutter was ripped off the roof and is laying in their front
yard.

As soon as I get woke up enough I might take a little tour around the
area to see what, if any damage occurred. Maybe take a few pics and
send them off to the NWS office.
I had no damage, although my lawn furniture wasn't where I left it.
Two large 90 gallon trash drums were the only casualty. They were both
knocked over by the winds. Fortunately nothing was in them at the
time.

That would have been one hell of a mess to clean up if it had been
full.
What do you need 2 90 gallon trash bins for? I was surprised to see that Kentucky has no recycling program to speak of. If you want to participate in the only recycling program we have locally (bottles and cans) you actually have to pay extra. WTF? They don't even have a bottle return program.

We ended up having no other choice at one time because we had one of
my other two brothers usually staying with us for a week or so and the
trash bin would get so full we had to spend the $80.00 to get another
one.

You would surprised at how little garbage you generate when you recycle, compost, and just generally reduce your waste (buying large containers of some items reduces packaging for example). Back in California my wife and I generated maybe two plastic shopping bags a week of *real garbage*, and even some of that could have been recycled if we had been bothered; stuff like paper towels soaked with cat puke could technically be recycled but we didn't want to deal with it. Here in Kentucky, because they have no real recycling program, and we have a septic system so we have to throw coffee grounds and stuff like that in the garbage (at least until summer comes and I set up a composter), we generate a fair bit of garbage, most of it paper.

Empty cans, Pepsi, juice or beer we rinse, crush and save. There's a
metal recycling plant about 10 minutes from here that pays I think .34
a pound. We usually get 4 or 5 trash bags full of them to turn in. In
the end we get back between $11 and $13 dollars to use for gas, smokes
or more beer. lol

I've got 4 bags all ready to go, but I'm saving up a bit more before
turning them in.

Bottles haven't been done is years AFAIK. I remember many a times we'd
save the empty glass Pepsi bottles that were worth .10 at the time.
We'd save up enough of those to spend on more eight packs of Pepsi and
a lot of time we'd actually get change back.

I think they were, what? 16 ounce bottles? It's been so many years I
forgot.

In California, you have to pay a deposit on soda cans, soda bottles and beer bottles. The deposit for a typical 12 oz soda can is 5 cents, 24oz is 10 cents. So I'll be damned if I was going to throw them out. I started saving them in separate containers and bringing them in once every month or two to the recycling center and then I used the money when I went to Vegas. It wasn't much, maybe $15 every two months, but money is money :-)
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