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  • Post-mortem: I hope people in ATX and immediate realize how freaking lucky we've been.  The severe prediction map was spot on!  The storms started blowing up just west of Austin, giving most of us

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1 hour ago, Updawg said:

No shit. Scary

Very scary...unless you have a damn cellphone to film with. But, of course, I imagine finding a basement in New Orleans would be a tad difficult, so I guess you might as well just film it at that point.

 

1 minute ago, staboner said:

holy shitballs that doesn't look good man

It's not. If you've got a twitter machine, just go to that guy's account. He's got several videos posted and photos of the aftermath. 

I had no idea tornados were even a thing in New Orleans. 

Damn.

 

Edited by ztejas

At least one dead in NOLA in Arabi area.

7 hours ago, bolverk said:

Very scary...unless you have a damn cellphone to film with. But, of course, I imagine finding a basement in New Orleans would be a tad difficult, so I guess you might as well just film it at that point.

 

Oh. Fuck. 

Next storm event scheduled for late Tuesday/into Wednesday.  Severe?  Possibly.  Anything approaching within a galaxy of the last event?  No.  That won't happen for 10 years again at least.  Book it.  No, really, book it.

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49 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

Next storm event scheduled for late Tuesday/into Wednesday.  Severe?  Possibly.  Anything approaching within a galaxy of the last event?  No.  That won't happen for 10 years again at least.  Book it.  No, really, book it.

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1 hour ago, phdhorn said:

Next storm event scheduled for late Tuesday/into Wednesday.  Severe?  Possibly.  Anything approaching within a galaxy of the last event?  No.  That won't happen for 10 years again at least.  Book it.  No, really, book it.

Yeah, I was reading what Avery Tomasco was saying locally that this past week's event had alllll the signals a week out and this one is not that.  

10 hours ago, ztejas said:

I had no idea tornados were even a thing in New Orleans. 

"Better to stay silent and be thought a Gen Z, than to open your mouth and confirm it."

Tornadoes are possible in every single state including Alaska and Hawaii. They obviously are more common or frequent in some states, but they can occur anywhere in the United States.

3 minutes ago, Hate said:

Tornadoes are possible in every single state including Alaska and Hawaii. They obviously are more common or frequent in some states, but they can occur anywhere in the United States.

I could bang any supermodel. Obviously some would be more likely than others, but any of them a possibility.

14 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:
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Commander Crim said he spoke with the driver on the side of the road shortly after the tornado hit.

“I asked if he was okay, and he shook his head and didn’t really answer me,” he said. At that point, Crim had not seen the video yet.

Now I understand why he had a blind stare. I’m sure he was scared to death,” he said. Crim said a woman who identified herself as an off-duty EMT had wrapped the driver’s arm in a bandage.

We’re still working to track down the driver himself. Police said they believe he’s in his late teens or 20s.

 

The fact he probably couldn't speak English and you are a cop played a factor as well. If that guy is legal, he's sitting on a gold mine of Chevy endorsement cash.

16 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

That truck looks in better shape after that than most of the ones I see on the road with freshly "issued" paper plates. 

4 hours ago, Wally Pryor said:

The tornado that touched down inear Arabi Tuesday evening was "at least" an EF3 on the Fujita rating scale, based on the damage it caused, the National Weather Service said Wednesday.

oof.

 

https://www.nola.com/news/weather/article_938a5514-aac6-11ec-a667-4334268b1658.html?utm_medium=no,tification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=desktop_push

Wouldn't be surprised if it was well up there, even a 4 at points. 

The CentTex tornadoes were as follows, at this point (could change):
 

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NOUS44 KEWX 232152
PNSEWX
TXZ194-241000-

Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Austin/San Antonio TX
452 PM CDT Wed Mar 23 2022

...Preliminary Tornado Information from Surveys...

The following information is preliminary on the tornadoes that
have been confirmed from Monday March 21 in South Central Texas.
More rating and track details are being finalized this week from
additional photos, flyovers, and even drone footage from our
emergency management partners...and detailed Public Information
Statements will be issued. Ground surveys were completed today in
Jarrell and Giddings. Of note is a correction on the Kingsbury
Max wind from an earlier PNS issuance.

Tornado Name         Prelim Max Rating / Max Wind Speed
_______________________________________________________________
Elgin Tornado                     EF-2 / 130 MPH
Kingsbury Tornado                 EF-2 / 115 MPH (correction)
Round Rock - Granger              EF-2 / 135 MPH
Jarrell                           EF-1 / 100 MPH
Giddings                          EF-1 /  95 MPH

As we study and look at additional photos, EF ratings could change.

Round Rock might easily get boosted to EF-3, which begins at... wait for it... 136 mph.

The Jacksboro one was an F3. Still haven't seen any good video of it. Apparently it was rain wrapped and hard to see.

Yesterday we learned my wife's brother-in-law's brother had his house completely destroyed.

No homeowner's insurance.

Oof.

The Jacksboro one was an F3. Still haven't seen any good video of it. Apparently it was rain wrapped and hard to see.

*EF-3
3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Yesterday we learned my wife's brother-in-law's brother had his house completely destroyed.

No homeowner's insurance.

Oof.

Wut why?

25 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Wut why?

I assume no mortgage, so some people self-insure.  Good luck with that, bro.

3 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I assume no mortgage, so some people self-insure.  Good luck with that, bro.

I don't think I could sleep at night without it.

1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

I don't think I could sleep at night without it.

Yeah, mortgage or not, it seems like a "gotta have", unless one is just rich as shit.

On 3/23/2022 at 8:26 AM, phdhorn said:

Next storm event scheduled for late Tuesday/into Wednesday.  Severe?  Possibly.  Anything approaching within a galaxy of the last event?  No.  That won't happen for 10 years again at least.  Book it.  No, really, book it.

Sweet, can’t wait for another 0.1” of rain for SA. Take that, stage 4 drought!

Edited by Loop 1604

On 3/23/2022 at 1:01 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth is gifting him a 2022 Silverado (and he got the job at Whataburger).

On 3/23/2022 at 1:03 PM, RPM said:

The fact he probably couldn't speak English and you are a cop played a factor as well. If that guy is legal, he's sitting on a gold mine of Chevy endorsement cash.

It’s such a great story. Honestly. On his way to a job interview at Whataburger…

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/elgin-texas-teen-new-truck-tornado-video/287-ecb883a2-4008-4cce-a975-455091b84b3f

i feel so old watching that clip. Forgetting what it feels like to be fucking fearless.

Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth is gifting him a 2022 Silverado (and he got the job at Whataburger).

Damn in gonna hit them up. I got five hail dings in the side of my Colorado.

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The North Texas Sun is shining in wake of the storms. Birds are singing, Redbuds are blooming and the neighborhoods are permeated with the sounds of Tejano music and staple guns.

8 hours ago, RPM said:

Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth is gifting him a 2022 Silverado (and he got the job at Whataburger).

that's pretty badass. are they lowkey throwing in some therapy too?

9 hours ago, RPM said:

Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth is gifting him a 2022 Silverado (and he got the job at Whataburger).

Good for him!  Poor kid deserves it.

Although shit if Id've known that I would've driven my '96 Explorer into an F1.  Of course, not sure what they'd give an old white guy but I can fake like I don't speak English if that helps.

I'm thinking you could speak Russian with a Muscovite accent and get a new truck out of that experience.  

Saw this image on Stonekettle’s Twitter feed. A supercell in CO. Forgive the post in the wrong thread, but the image is bad ass. Supposedly spawned a couple of sizable tornadoes.

 

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13 hours ago, RPM said:

Bruce Lowrie Chevrolet in Fort Worth is gifting him a 2022 Silverado (and he got the job at Whataburger).

Well, he ain't going be be able to use the "my truck got picked up by a tornado" excuse to miss a shift, now.

11 hours ago, TexPx said:

the neighborhoods are permeated with the sounds of Tejano music and staple guns.

As God intended. 

3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Bill Paxton(RIP) and Helen Hunt say "yeah, whatever..."

12 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

What’s baffling is how does the camera never move/lose power?

And is that a cat’s face plastered to the lens for about five seconds at around the :34 mark? (Cat features come into focus at :38.) Probably an illusion, or Whiskers went on one helluva wild ride.

Edited by Vito Andolini
Put the words in the wrong place

1 hour ago, Vito Andolini said:

 

What’s baffling is how does the camera never move/lose power?

And is that a cat’s face plastered to the lens for about five seconds at around the :34 mark? (Cat features come into focus at :38.) Probably an illusion, or Whiskers went on one helluva wild ride.

 

Camera was getting its power through the network (CAT5) cabling, so unless the switch the cable ran from was taken off line or destroyed the camera would still receive power.  Shortly before the damage occurred, the power went out, but the camera was still recording; meaning, there was a UPS the switch was attached to.  Plus, the footage made its way back to whatever server they are using to store their video, so their entire network pathway was not destroyed or powered down from that camera upstream.

Tornados do funny things; we've all seen photos of homes destroyed, but 2 walls left standing, with pictures intact and whatnot.

 

 

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