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Title: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: NAKID on May 22, 2008, 01:39:31 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/22/colorado.tornado.video/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/22/colorado.tornado.video/index.html)
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: Fresh Pants on May 22, 2008, 01:46:09 PM
It's wacky.

Funny, as I was watching the video my cousing asked me if I was okay via MSN messenger.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: corey on May 22, 2008, 01:48:31 PM
Last year, Pittsburgh actually got nailed with one right at the three rivers point. It was  insane. Garbage cans were flying EVERYWHERE.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: Betty Rage on May 22, 2008, 01:58:34 PM
that thing looks massive!!
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: IZ on May 22, 2008, 02:39:33 PM
Just saw that.


We had a tornado when I was living in Flagstaff around '97.  Just as odd as one in CO.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: erkishhorde on May 22, 2008, 02:49:32 PM
Golfball... sized... hail...?  :o I'd hate to drive through that let alone ride through it. I bet hail that size could seriously hurt a person.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: Randimus Maximus on May 22, 2008, 08:01:43 PM
I had to drive through the southern part of that storm earlier today.

Hit some marble sized hail.  Sounded really nasty bouncing off the car  :o :o :o

Saw a few cyclists running for cover...that would have really sucked.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: wbeck257 on May 22, 2008, 08:11:50 PM
Its been a bad year for storms so far. I'm getting a lot of OT for it too...

I've worked power resoration for three Tornado's so far.
-Downtown Atlanta (Feb)
-Macon, GA (Last week)
-Holly Springs, GA (Tuesday)

However, having two weeks in a row now where I've had to stay awake and work 48+ hours is starting to suck. Nothing like work from 6am Tuesday to 10pm Thursday... I'm tired.. lol.

Georgia gets a good amount, just the frequenecy seems up from years past. It has been this bad in about 10 years.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: T-byrd on May 22, 2008, 08:55:32 PM
Quote from: erkishhorde on May 22, 2008, 02:49:32 PM
Golfball... sized... hail...?  :o I'd hate to drive through that let alone ride through it. I bet hail that size could seriously hurt a person.

Try baseball sized hail...insane.  1 mile wide, total devastation for a farming town of 16,000.  With a tornado that size it's amazing that there wasn't more than the 1 fatality.

T
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: NAKID on May 22, 2008, 09:11:27 PM
Crazy weather all over the place. Here, it was over 100 monday night at this time. Right now, it's 59!
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: IZ on May 22, 2008, 10:11:20 PM
Quote from: Randimus Maximus on May 22, 2008, 08:01:43 PM
I had to drive through the southern part of that storm earlier today.

Hit some marble sized hail.  Sounded really nasty bouncing off the car  :o :o :o

Saw a few cyclists running for cover...that would have really sucked.

Uh oh..did the Matrix get some dents?? 

The s/o asked if the tornado was near your place. 

I told her I doubted it but sh*t..you were!! 

:-[

Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: Randimus Maximus on May 23, 2008, 10:59:56 AM
I was in a Camry at the time.  No dents  [thumbsup]

The storm stayed north of Denver, but hit a couple communities up there really hard.
Title: Re: Tornado in Colorado?!?!?!
Post by: NvrSummer on May 23, 2008, 11:42:11 AM
Quote from: Randimus Maximus on May 23, 2008, 10:59:56 AM
I was in a Camry at the time.  No dents  [thumbsup]

The storm stayed north of Denver, but hit a couple communities up there really hard.

Good thing too, I was on my bike yesterday!  That woulda sucked a bit.

Feel terrible for those people up in Windsor, but I suppose it could've been a whole lot worse.