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Date Posted: Tuesday, April 19, 11:17:09pm
Author: Lij
Author Host/IP: kntpin04-nas-01-s170.cinergycom.net / 216.135.24.170
Subject: Up to 40,000 lightning strikes in one 30 minute period.

Several tornadoes, possibly up to 10 or more.

Maybe 30,000 people without power in Illinois.

Straight line winds up to 80 mph.

And it hasn't hit here yet.

But it will.

Scared I am.

DishTV just went out. Which means a wall of water is in the atmosphere to my southwest.

Quiet just heard a thunder clap in the distance.

Heard one closer, and now the lights are flickering

Now the lights are gone.

I wonder if it is a rolling blackout.

Oh well...

There were tornado warnings to the west, north and south.

Wind picking up. More lightning. Sounds like something cracking outside. One of the old oak trees? Damn.... At least I didn't hear it hit the house, but I felt a tremor, so did a large limb hit the ground?

Thought the wind was subsiding, but it came back. Lightning all around.

Signing off.

Bye.

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[> Keep us updated, if you can. -- AurraSing, Tuesday, April 19, 11:33:42pm (out-bc-253.wireless.telus.com/209.121.225.253)

People here bitching about the cold and wet days, I feel like pointing them to the websites with tornado/storm news and telling them to shut the hell up....

I hope you'll be safe. I will be thinking about you!

*hugs*

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[> Well the power is still out. Called the automated reporting center.... -- Lij, Wednesday, April 20, 12:18:50am (kntpin04-nas-01-s186.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.186)

Found a flashlight.

Cannot see any trees down in the backyard.

It's still raining and lightning.

This is what the radar looked like before it hit. Mean looking isn't it? I'm just north of the left-hand upright of the first 'n' in Vincennes. The red zones are tornado warnings for tornadoes on the ground or spotted on radar.

This is what it looked like after it blew through. Not quite so mean looking... But it still had tornado warnings off to my southeast, so I guess the worst that was closest stayed south. I turned off the computer when I signed off because I didn't want it hit by lightning.

It is still raining and lightning, but not as much lightning as before (though it seems to be more intense).

I can do without power, I guess, I'm not opening the frig. Not sure what will happen with the TV. I was trying to get the weather radar for channel 10 out of Terre Haute (north of me) when the power went out but evidently channel 10 got knocked off the air. 65% left on my computer battery.... better go.

Odd the captcha phrase was rOevv.... and Evv (for Evansville) was in the filenames for the pics above... Hmmmm.....

Yep, there was a good lightning bolt!

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[> [> Jeebus! -- AS, Wednesday, April 20, 12:49:54am (NoHost/66.183.77.136)

Never been through a tornado watch...all the years I was on the prairies, I recall a few really intense thunderstorms but nothing like what you are seeing. Saw the pics last night from the storms down in the Carolinas, really horrible devastation.

Hope you get power soon, the crews will be out checking lines I am sure!

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[> Well, I've got limbs down all over the backyard and east-sideyard.... -- Lij, Thursday, April 21, 06:47:39am (kntpin04-nas-01-s130.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.130)

But the biggest mess is from a big tulip tree at the bottom of the hill about 100 feet behind the house. It had all its upper limbs stripped from it and deposited north and west of that tree. Another cherry tree out the east side of the house lost a limb and it was laying north of the tree. With straight-line winds blowing out of the west or northwest, I find it difficult think straight-line winds did this. I think there might have been a mini-tornado run through here and not miss the house by more than 100 feet!

On the electric front power was down from midnight to just after 6pm the next night - a bit more than 18 hours. I ate peanut butter sandwiches and drank tap water.

So now after dropping below flood stage from the last flood - which lasted over a month:

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?cb_00060=on&cb_00065=on&format=gif_default&period=70&site_no=03342000

They are now predicting a new flood of about 21 feet:

http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=ind&gage=rvti3

It looks like it will be up for at least a half a month and possibly more if other storm cells come through. So I doubt we're planting corn on the river farm this year. Soybeans should suffice though.

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[> [> Pleased to hear it wasn't worse than that.... -- AurraSing, Thursday, April 21, 10:22:56am (NoHost/66.183.77.136)

Sorry about the trees, those tulip trees are very pretty.

You might want to stock up on a small Coleman stove and some small propane canisters for the next time-we have a lot of camping gear and at least when we've lost power,can boil water or cook simple meals out on one of the decks here. Just a thought.

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[> [> [> I measured that tulip tree once about 1997..... -- Lij, Thursday, April 21, 11:14:36am (kntpin04-nas-01-s239.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.239)

.....it was 3 foot in diameter then. It's had a good part of its top taken out of it. I guess that is what I heard snap and hit the ground.

I have a small hibachi grill and charcoal if I really need to fix something. I prefer keeping something like that in reserve rather than gas.

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[> [> Limbs ? -- Chani, Thursday, April 21, 12:59:56pm (81-65-158-43.rev.numericable.fr/81.65.158.43)

Now that's truly a vision of Apocalypse!

Yeah I knew that "limb" works for trees too, but at first I was picturing human bits all over your backyard...

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[> [> [> Move that wind/tornado 100 feet south and it might have been mine! -- Lij, Thursday, April 21, 09:57:07pm (kntpin04-nas-01-s172.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.172)

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[> [> [> [> It's really scary -- Chani, Friday, April 22, 05:19:24am (81-65-158-43.rev.numericable.fr/81.65.158.43)

I have never seen a tornado in my life, and I bet I would be freaking out.

Stay safe, tr�sor.

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