Steve visited with us on the Memorial Day weekend. The morning and afternoon of Memorial Day Monday were beautiful but a trifle humid.
In the morning, Steve and I went to Herrlinger Park, a little park in Troy where he celebrated several birthdays when he was younger. A railroad track runs beside the park and everyone who knows Steve knows he loves to railfan.
This year he has a short-wave scanner so he can hear the railroad dispatchers and engineers talking as the trains pass various points along their routes. The scanner was a birthday gift from his dad.
Listening to his scanner made railfanning much more interesting to me.
After lunch he was picked up and headed home. The afternoon was a quiet one for Tom and me. And so was the early part of the evening. Tom was already in bed when our evening became more scary than our evenings usually are. Our cell phones blasted out warnings. Tornado warning. I turned on the local TV channel. A tornado had touched down north of us. Later in the week the National Weather Bureau listed it as a EF-3
The meteorologist could barely keep up with what she was seeing on her weather displays. Tornado after tornado. Tornado to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south. All this happened Monday evening. It took until Thursday for the newspaper to report what the National Weather Bureau had decided had occurred.
Below is an enlargement of the diagram of where the tornadoes hit and their strengths.
Since this newspaper was published one tornado has been upgraded to an EF-4. The number of tornadoes has been increased to at least 14 after more checking by the National Weather Bureau.
We haven't had a severe tornado since 1974 when one destroyed a portion of Xenia, a nearby town.
Unfortunately our granddaughter's house was one of those severely damaged. She and her pets are temporarily staying with friends. She thought one of her cats was lost but it showed up on Saturday. It was hiding among the debris in her damaged attached garage. Friends have been helping her clean up the trees and utility poles and the rest of the mess. She called today. She says there is a lot of cleanup still to do but a lot has been cleaned up and a lot taken to the disposal site. She says she is alternating between feeling lucky she still has a house and feeling overwhelmed by the entire experience.
And despite severe weather in all directions, Tom and I never lost electricity and no branches fell from any of our trees.
In the morning, Steve and I went to Herrlinger Park, a little park in Troy where he celebrated several birthdays when he was younger. A railroad track runs beside the park and everyone who knows Steve knows he loves to railfan.
This year he has a short-wave scanner so he can hear the railroad dispatchers and engineers talking as the trains pass various points along their routes. The scanner was a birthday gift from his dad.
Listening to his scanner made railfanning much more interesting to me.
After lunch he was picked up and headed home. The afternoon was a quiet one for Tom and me. And so was the early part of the evening. Tom was already in bed when our evening became more scary than our evenings usually are. Our cell phones blasted out warnings. Tornado warning. I turned on the local TV channel. A tornado had touched down north of us. Later in the week the National Weather Bureau listed it as a EF-3
The meteorologist could barely keep up with what she was seeing on her weather displays. Tornado after tornado. Tornado to the west, to the east, to the north and to the south. All this happened Monday evening. It took until Thursday for the newspaper to report what the National Weather Bureau had decided had occurred.
Below is an enlargement of the diagram of where the tornadoes hit and their strengths.
Since this newspaper was published one tornado has been upgraded to an EF-4. The number of tornadoes has been increased to at least 14 after more checking by the National Weather Bureau.
We haven't had a severe tornado since 1974 when one destroyed a portion of Xenia, a nearby town.
Unfortunately our granddaughter's house was one of those severely damaged. She and her pets are temporarily staying with friends. She thought one of her cats was lost but it showed up on Saturday. It was hiding among the debris in her damaged attached garage. Friends have been helping her clean up the trees and utility poles and the rest of the mess. She called today. She says there is a lot of cleanup still to do but a lot has been cleaned up and a lot taken to the disposal site. She says she is alternating between feeling lucky she still has a house and feeling overwhelmed by the entire experience.
And despite severe weather in all directions, Tom and I never lost electricity and no branches fell from any of our trees.
You were lucky! I am sorry to hear of your Grands storm damage. That is lots of tornados at one time. :)
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