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countrykat
True Blue Farmgirl
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kathy
paola
kansas
USA
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 Posted - Jun 11 2005 : 9:36:26 PM
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It's funny how engineers can spot each other by the things they say and do. Todd has several in his family of 5 siblings. All but his sister have gone through some sort of engineering program at either KU or K State. So there are 2 Electrical Engineers, 2 Mechanical Engineers, 1 Aviation Engineer and a SIL who has a Structural Engineering degree. Pretty good company and the conversations at various family get-togethers are engrossing.
So far our handy work is holding. We got more rain over night and this morning but things have held up. Todd finished spreading the gravel, using the neighbors big tractor, so that the road over the tin whisltes looks much better than it did last Sunday. Seems hard to believe we had to deal with it washed out like it was for 6 days but all the gravel contractors were super busy this week and that was the major hold up.
Sounds like we are supposed to get more rain Sunday. I hope this place doesn't wash away when we go to Massachusetts later this week.
Hope everybody in Florida is hanging on. |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2005 : 9:44:44 PM
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My goodness Kathy, the engineering gene must run deep in your husbands family! It is funny how these types love to get on their bobcats or tractors with earth movers and move dirt around, carving new paths and inlets and drainage. DH is always willing to do this, and seems very happy and content with that that kind of work! I'm with you, I'd rather mix the concrete!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Jun 12 2005 : 07:19:43 AM
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Kathy - your storm culverts are something else! We used to have them around here exposed but then the corp of engineers decided that they needed to subgrade and a whole system of them went in at the back of our property though unlike yours they were concrete. We have to make sure that the intake grate doesn't become blocked but that is alot better than torrential rivers flowing down the street like before. Once I got caught and the water was so strong that it pulled the shoes right off my feet and knocked me down ( and I am no petite flower!)
Speaking of nature, I was glad the hurricane decided not to visit you and your neighbors Jeannie! Let's keep it that way!
Kim and all our Wisconsin friends, I hope you were safe and not in the
path of the twister this weekend. Our news had a short blurb and said although much damage to homes, no one was hurt; thank goodness!
We had a tornado scare a few weeks ago. My son was at a party and it was time to pick him up. I got in the car annd it was rainy and unusually windy. As I am driving this strange sound comes out of the r5adio and informs me that a cell cluster with severe implications was forming over the very direction I was heading.I had about a mile left to go and wasn't sure what to do. I pulled over and called the house I was headed to and the didn't know anything but that it was windy so I continued on and got to the house.As I walked in the door the sky turned a weird mix of colors, the rain pounded down and then hail, then a strange rumbling trainlike sound. (I was in a tornado at 7 so I knew what that meant. We all went to the basement and waited for the noise to subside.Afterward we found out that it had touched down in the marsh (behind the house) and hit the embankment and veered off toward the river. Aparently,it formed a water spout over the river and then disappated.Our area does not have storm sirens or alert systems other than radio and tv, that was a little too close for comfort!
Keeping all of you in our thoughts and praayers for a safe and happy summer.
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2005 : 08:49:26 AM
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Goodness, Bramble that was close! I saw on the WEather Channel the funnel cloud that formed in Kansas this past week - was it Morgan County? I can't remember, but I thought of you all when I saw it. God spared you that time! Glad you are safe.
Tropical Storm Arlene is gone and just scared everyone basically. We are all skittish this year! Hope the weather calms for all of us this week! I am ready for blueskies!
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2005 : 10:01:57 AM
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Bramble, You did the right thing...I am curious were there actually tornado warnings broadcast on your radio and TV stations? Do you all have doppler radar back in the NE area? Doppler can pick up rotation in storm clouds before the twister actually touches ground and does damage. I remember back in 1985 there was a terrible outbrake of tornadoes in the Penn. area that killed a lot of people. Maybe you know what I am referring to. This poor lady drove her car head on into this huge funnel and was killed, she heard no warnings and did not know what was happening until it was too late. That really haunted me. When this kind of weather is looming nearby in Kansas our weather service does not call the storm severe implications. They say, TAKE COVER NOW!!!! You followed your instincs and had the experience of a twister and knew what was coming. Kudos Farmgirl!!!
Kim and Molly and all the IL and WIS. girls I am thinking of you. Stay safe, it's nasty out there!!!
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there." Rumi, 13th century. http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/sb/sb101.html |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jun 12 2005 : 11:48:50 AM
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Jenny- We do have dopler radar though it seems to be referred to by the talking head weather people on tv primarily. There is a National Weather Service site just south of us (about 1/2 hr) and I think that must be who put the blip out to the radio. Sadly, we are ill prepared in our area for these events and there is no siren or special call that everyone would recognize as a tornado warning.
I remember the Pa. episode all too well, that was the time I couldn't get home from work and didn't know if my dh was ok( (we were moving into our Yardley house that week) and when I got home I found out it had briefly touched down two houses away at the church and took out a big tree. Then we found out the devastation you mentioned occurred where my cousin lived but she was spared because she was on the opposite side of a dense tree line and not out in the open where the new construction was just levelled. The worst was that so many were lost because there was no warning.Unless you happen to hear something on the radio or see the tv warning you are on your own for any sort of preparedness. Be safe and be prepared everyone, it is scary business.
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