Have any of you had the expeinced severe storms? Last sunday we had golfball sized hail and 70MPH straight winds, 4 tornadoes, bad enough, it totaled my friend's car, and took out the windows of several friend's houses. Tonight we had a "Supercell" develope, drop 2 tornadoes, and softball sized hail, along with 70 - 80 MPH winds, and 6 1/2 inches of rain. Damn am I'm glad I live in a brick house. Isn't life lovely in Tornado Alley

and all along I thought Kansas was tornado alley...

it used to be part of it, but ya know
"We're not in Kansas anymore"

Wow, Ace I didn't know they made brick trailers! :wink:

Tornados scare me, I've lived through hurricanes on the east coast and earthquakes on the west. but will never live in the middle.

go outside with a baseball bat and protect you car

We had 4 tornados within 5-10 miles of our house a couple weeks back. Quite a bit of damage to a few town, but we got lucky. I was playing BHD, having a couple beers and watching the local warnings and radar.

Where is Old Mil when i need them, "It don't get any better that this".

I still haven't gotten my claims from last year's hail storms rectified yet. The Ram and the wife's Grand Prix still look like golf balls. And our roof needs replacing as well.

Problem is, the body shops keep getting slammed about the time I'm ready to put one of the vehicles in. And there's never a reputable roofer in my neighborhood that can speak English enough to understand that I want an estimate.

Texas sucks... that's all there is to it.

had thunder storm here last night worse one for some yrs id say..new it was comming get head achs just before they come...well coz i dont belive in surge protection ...mainly coz that cost money switched comp of and pulled plugs out....well things go by as normal

nice light show

next morning plug everything in switch comp on all fine but moniter pretty but wrong yellows purples and alsorts screen was lopsidded every fuck up u could name

the storm was so bad it fucked up my moniter even though it wasnt pluged in

funky
degaus

Nice thing about living in the north east is the weather we have a lot of it but very seldom severe. In the last ten years there was a couple of tornados 100 mi south of us that wrecked some houses. We ocationally get some small hail big enough to ruin corn or apples but not a roof. sometimes a northeaster that will dump alot of snow but all in all pretty tame

And that's the very thing I love about Salt Lake City, Utah. Severe weather (as it's become defined over the past several years) just doesn't happen there. Sure, there are rainy days... but there's hardly ever an insurance claims filed afterwards. It snows a lot there as well during the winter... but nothing that's been considered 'severe' since 1971 or so. We did have some flooding from winter run-off during the '83-'84 school year, but the snow was in the mountains.

Thunderstorms and lightning shows up there are awesome as well... and rarely deadly or damaging. Also, tornados and hail are infrequent (tornados being rare to the point of one might happen every 40 years or so - I like those odds).

I maintain... Texas just sucks.