Give me a week or so. I am heartbroken over the events of last night. Just too much death and destruction in an area I know well, I lived out that way for a year. A friend of mine lost her home...and I mean it was slabbed, there's nothing left. At least her and her family are alive, they had the sense to flee south well ahead of it.
I am emotionally drained from following that one supercell. A several hours long train wreck you get to watch but can't do shit about, the train is going 65 mph and its wrecking for 250 miles and the whole time it is exploding every town in its way. And the worst part about it? After about an hour it was obvious that storm had nothing in its path to cut off its inflow energy for a long, long time. A self sustaining machine. Twenty plus years I've been a chaser and weather enthusiast and I have never seen something quite like this...I've seen bigger storms and stronger tornadoes, but never one that just keep going and going for hours. Most of us from time to time debated if the 1925 Tri State Tornado was really one continuous tornado for 219 miles, surely that's not possible....well now we know.
I'll post some thoughts later this week on building standards and businesses that are too damn stupid to have an action plan in place...my anger on that is slowly simmering and awaiting some more facts.
I am emotionally drained from following that one supercell. A several hours long train wreck you get to watch but can't do shit about, the train is going 65 mph and its wrecking for 250 miles and the whole time it is exploding every town in its way. And the worst part about it? After about an hour it was obvious that storm had nothing in its path to cut off its inflow energy for a long, long time. A self sustaining machine. Twenty plus years I've been a chaser and weather enthusiast and I have never seen something quite like this...I've seen bigger storms and stronger tornadoes, but never one that just keep going and going for hours. Most of us from time to time debated if the 1925 Tri State Tornado was really one continuous tornado for 219 miles, surely that's not possible....well now we know.
I'll post some thoughts later this week on building standards and businesses that are too damn stupid to have an action plan in place...my anger on that is slowly simmering and awaiting some more facts.