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Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 07:51 PM
Where is Manny when you need him? :lol

My entire neighborhood is a war zone. And the National Weather Service knuckleheads are saying it wasn't a tornado, just straight line winds.

Bullshit.

I'm no fujita scale guru, but if this shit isn't tornadic damage, they need a new scale...

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/sblack123/trees.jpg

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/sblack123/chimney2.jpg

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/sblack123/chimney1.jpg

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn90/sblack123/brick.jpg


http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/670c26185a3783678135b4697f7dbd1a/47fe646fa386btorn_off_roof.JPG

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/670c26185a3783678135b4697f7dbd1a/47fe63ae9fef7side_of_building.JPG

Those were all within a block of my place (I had a couple of tree branches deposited on my balcony, but already chunked those into the dumpster).

And these were within a mile of me:

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/82f5e54d8e425cf93af25e86b4be04f8/47fe4b3b2abeftornado_damage_2_kindercare.jpg

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/586ee5cb5f17541372cdd7d54b6414d7/47fe58677a546storm2008_24.JPG

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/0a118184382a407bba7aef472932273e/47fe8cda38b42DSC_0625.jpg

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/b7c0c7d6ce233d0fe18625ea3cd5bdb1/47fe375d6aefbPicture_130.jpg

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/b7c0c7d6ce233d0fe18625ea3cd5bdb1/47fe36b5e1445Picture_129.jpg

http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/b7c0c7d6ce233d0fe18625ea3cd5bdb1/47fe388bbe7d3Picture_131.jpg
1369
04-10-2008, 07:56 PM
AHF, where are you at? My sister lives in Allen along the Allen/Plano line (Off McDermot) and her neighbor's chimney wound up in her front yard and she lost most all of the trees on her lot.
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:00 PM
I'm about a block off the Dallas North Tollway, essentially at the intersection of it and Frankford Rd. Basically, the last street in Dallas just before you cross the county line from Dallas County into Collin County and Plano.

There is a clear path of damage from southwest of Addison Airport all the way to EDS Headquarters (about 4 miles NE of me) but like I said, NWS idiots are saying it was just wind, no tornado.

My card reader just crapped out on me, but the Pappadeaux sign across the Tollway from me got mangled and the shopping center around the corner was pretty messed up too (light poles snapped at their bases, trees uprooted, roof partially ripped off).

Crazy.
manufor3
04-10-2008, 08:02 PM
im in arlington and it WAS STORMING last night
Evan
04-10-2008, 08:02 PM
AHF, where are you at? My sister lives in Allen along the Allen/Plano line (Off McDermot) and her neighbor's chimney wound up in her front yard and she lost most all of the trees on her lot.

Thats right where I live. It was effing brutal. I got pretty nervous there for a few minutes.
T Park
04-10-2008, 08:06 PM
That looks like a tornado came through.
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:10 PM
Thats right where I live. It was effing brutal. I got pretty nervous there for a few minutes.

Just nervous? :lol

It was right out of the Twister movie at my place...

* tornado sirens go off

* cable goes out while they're saying a tornado has been indicated on radar and is headed for the Addison Airport (mile SW of me)

* lights start flickering on and off, then go out. I was looking out the window and could see transformers popping off in the distance

(about this point I headed to the bathroom to duck and cover)
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* lightning like crazy, thundering like crazy, wind starts howling

* everything gets dead calm but the lightning is still lighting up my place

* wind starts howling again, loud roar for about two minutes, could hear pops and cracks (knew they were trees snapping)

* then it's just rain...

Came out in the morning to the above....
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:12 PM
That looks like a tornado came through.

What convinced me was the 3rd and 4th pics above (that I linked, sorry too lazy to resize....). Those are those big hundred foot tall power transformers. They are built to withstand high winds, but were crumpled and twisted around themselves like someone came along and wadded them up like a paper ball.
T Park
04-10-2008, 08:14 PM
The car being crumpled like something out of Transformers convinced me.
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:16 PM
The car being crumpled like something out of Transformers convinced me.

I don't know if it wasn't clear in the pics, but there is a chimney sitting besides the car. That's what crumped the car. A chimney got ripped off one of the buildings at our apartments (three story) and dropped on that car.
Evan
04-10-2008, 08:19 PM
When I was driving to work I saw that the wind had picked up a full size trampoline that was anchored to the ground from someones back yard and tossed it into the street. Over a fence mind you.
T Park
04-10-2008, 08:21 PM
Yeah I saw that, I thought at first it was one of those spackle job fake pillar things, but then I saw the stuff behind the spackle :lol
Evan
04-10-2008, 08:27 PM
Just nervous? :lol

Not sure how to phrase it, whatever you call right before scared due to a false sense of security from living in the city. Which is probably gone now... :lol
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:28 PM
When I was driving to work I saw that the wind had picked up a full size trampoline that was anchored to the ground from someones back yard and tossed it into the street. Over a fence mind you.

Yeah, one of my coworkers snapped photos on the way in to work today and showed us. Two stuck out...

1. The EDS headquarters building had a bunch of its windows blown out on one side (the main building with the driveway under it - you probably know what I'm talking about if you've ever driven by there)

2. Might have been the same trampoline as yours, but it was a photo of a trampoline that was wrapped around a tree about 10 feet off the ground.
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:30 PM
Not sure how to phrase it, whatever you call right before scared due to a false sense of security from living in the city. Which is probably gone now... :lol

I hear ya, just giving you a hard time. As I mentioned, I got to experience all the classic 'tell tale signs' of a twister coming. When it went from ridiculously windy and noisy to super calm, all I could think was 'oh shit'...
Evan
04-10-2008, 08:31 PM
2. Might have been the same trampoline as yours, but it was a photo of a trampoline that was wrapped around a tree about 10 feet off the ground.

West side of Independence by McDermott?

Has to be the same one because that is exactly what it was.
bostonguy
04-10-2008, 08:32 PM
Talk to a friend who lives in that exact area AHF and he told me the same exact thing about the Weathercasts calling the damage non-tornadic. AHF what category could this be classified as? My friend told me a category 4-5 would all be good guesses.
Evan
04-10-2008, 08:36 PM
Talk to a friend who lives in that exact area AHF and he told me the same exact thing about the Weathercasts calling the damage non-tornadic. AHF what category could this be classified as? My friend told me a category 4-5 would all be good guesses.


If all vegetation besides adult trees bending flat to the ground as its raining sideways from 60 tp 80mph winds isn't "tornadic" then what is?!

Except for the massive flooding it looked like watching footage from CNN during a hurricane in Florida.
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:36 PM
West side of Independence by McDermott?

Has to be the same one because that is exactly what it was.

Yeah it was somewhere off Independence. Sounds like the same trampoline :lol
Aggie Hoopsfan
04-10-2008, 08:42 PM
Talk to a friend who lives in that exact area AHF and he told me the same exact thing about the Weathercasts calling the damage non-tornadic. AHF what category could this be classified as? My friend told me a category 4-5 would all be good guesses.

We looked this up at work today (quite a few of us live around the area as it is close to our office, and all had the same experiences with the wind and the sounds and the damage)...

http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm

Based on that sounds like an F0 or an F1.

BTW, found this photo cruising too. This is Addison Airport just SW of me. Hangar doors completely ripped off...

http://forms.belointeractive.com/sharedcontent/datafiles/1207859870707_ORIGINAL_PICT0004.jpg
T Park
04-10-2008, 10:32 PM
That was a tornado.

Either that or "tornado like winds"

Has to be.
marini martini
04-10-2008, 11:37 PM
Just like Wisteria Lane! Dang, glad you are alright :toast
Cant_Be_Faded
04-10-2008, 11:39 PM
lol

AggieHoopsFan, you live like 100 yards away from me. Last night was a fucking trip. I was reminded of the movie Twister too. The sirens were cool, and as I looked outside at the wind moving the trees and the debris, and the hail and rain, I was reminded of the episode of Beavis and Butthead where they are going to the MaxiMart before a huge storm and are wondering where the hell is everyone not even realizing a storm is coming.

lol

Did anyone see the crazy ass green lightning coming from the west before we got pounded with hail and the strong wind gusts? It looked like a strobe light of green lights moving all around....and it looked like the light was rotating, it had to be a twister.

They said wind gusts were up to 75 MPH....i had no idea it was that bad, or that any storm was coming. It was cool surveying all the damage while I was driving to work.
Cant_Be_Faded
04-10-2008, 11:44 PM
I hear ya, just giving you a hard time. As I mentioned, I got to experience all the classic 'tell tale signs' of a twister coming. When it went from ridiculously windy and noisy to super calm, all I could think was 'oh shit'...

I was so fucking sleepy I forgot about that...I had taken a leak and then the lights went out and it got really really quiet....then the crackling and train-whistle sounding wind came ripping into the apartment and it was like the windows were going to blow in.
The apartment directly below us had its living room window knocked in and had to throw out all their furniture and beds.....it was a close call.
AlamoSpursFan
04-11-2008, 12:25 AM
Our Irving plant got knocked offline. I think they had some damage too, but I haven't heard how bad. We just received an extra load of potatos that was supposed to go there, but the driver said he couldn't get there because of "the tornado".
marini martini
04-11-2008, 12:36 AM
[QUOTE When it went from ridiculously windy and noisy to super calm, all I could think was 'oh shit'...[/QUOTE]!!

That's what I thought, also. My very first twister experience!

Love,

Dorothy :toast
mookie2001
04-11-2008, 08:45 PM
lol

AggieHoopsFan, you live like 100 yards away from me. Last night was a fucking trip. I was reminded of the movie Twister too. The sirens were cool, and as I looked outside at the wind moving the trees and the debris, and the hail and rain, I was reminded of the episode of Beavis and Butthead where they are going to the MaxiMart before a huge storm and are wondering where the hell is everyone not even realizing a storm is coming.

lol

Did anyone see the crazy ass green lightning coming from the west before we got pounded with hail and the strong wind gusts? It looked like a strobe light of green lights moving all around....and it looked like the light was rotating, it had to be a twister.

They said wind gusts were up to 75 MPH....i had no idea it was that bad, or that any storm was coming. It was cool surveying all the damage while I was driving to work.

youve got to be shitting me
remingtonbo2001
04-11-2008, 08:54 PM
Earthquakes are more fun!
CubanMustGo
04-11-2008, 10:17 PM
According to channel 5 news up here the NWS got their head out of their ass and said that it was a tornado that hit Plano/Allen. Well, duh.

Glad you were OK, AHF and CBF. Ironically we had guys scheduled to come replace our roof on Thursday due to damage in the Feb/March storms. Fortunately for us our part of McKinney came thru OK and they were able to take care of the existing damage the last couple of days.