Re: David, a question please unrelated to Thiering..

Rod wrote:

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We were hit by a tornado yesterday evening about 6:40 pm CST. I was
standing in the
front yard watching the clouds whan it dipped down briefly. Wind
speeds hit approx.
100 mph as the wind twisted the tops from trees just north of my
house, and ruflled
the shingles on our homes. We sustained minor damage, but my security
camera caught
it all on tape. I've got to contact the insurnce people this morning
and have them come and
look the roof over.

I just hate to see the season start again, and so early !

I"d love to see a tornado - from a safe distance. I've been fascinated by
them - and weather in general - from a very early age, so much so that my
preferred proffesion would have been meteorology. However, at the time of
high school graduation (when we had to choose which path to go on) I found
out that Australia only hired two meteorologists a year, and there was no
meteorology course offered in Australia. I fell back to my second choice:
chemistry, and have been working as an industrial chemist ever since.

Perhaps if I lived in 'Tornado Alley' where property is regularly destroyed
and lives are often lost, I might feel differently about these incredibly
violent storms. The 'best' I've seen is a 'willy willy' - which you folks
might know as a 'dust devil', and stood inside it as the litter of the
playground swirled around me. It was awesome.

Yowie
PS, Sorry for being Off Topic, but figure this thread would be plonked by
most if not all because of the subject line anyway.


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