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24 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

A friend from church just called me to see if I was ok. He doesn’t have any power and he saw a tornado went through a few miles from me yesterday. I knew we had fierce wind when I was out on my bike. I saw probably forty trees down along the bike trail but someone had already used equipment and drug them most of the way off the trail. There were a couple trees that fell across the trail but were stopped from falling on the trail by trees on the other side of the trail. They looked precarious but I had room to get under them. The tornado took out a restaurant and a place that builds overhead doors. Esther’s big flat screen tv just sits there like a useless decoration because I sent the satellite box back.

That happened to me  a few yrs. back where I jumped onto my bike without checking the weather first.

The winds were over 70 km/hr.  I had to get off my bike in the headwind....  Later I found out some construction material fell from one of the office towers, huge tree branches broken off.... It was a major windstorm..even though I saw people biking along..  No, they were not a good guage.

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 I had to get off my bike in the headwind....

When I was riding across the causeway the wind was mostly in my face but a few gusts tried to blow me off the bridge. I was glad to get back in the woods but the number of downed trees was concerning. I think I made a good decision to only do one lap around the lake.

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5 hours ago, Longjohn said:

a tornado went through a few miles from me yesterday.

You just need a weather app on your phone that gives you alerts for bad weather.   If you don't want that... 

Several years ago I purchsed an Elton weather radio.   It alerts when NOAA sends warnings/watches.   Has a flashlight, can use solar to charge it's battery, or a hand crank to charge the battery or charge a cell phone (which would be a pain in the ass to do).

You don't want to survive heart attacks, only to be swept away in a tornado like the Wicked Witch of the West was in the Wizard of Oz.

 

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30 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said:

Didn’t you get a warning on your phone aboot the tornado or severe thunderstorm?  They are usually pretty free with those.  :scratchhead:

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I used to get them on my phone all the time including the missing persons warnings. They were annoying so I shut them off.

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7 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said:

Mine have gotten a lot better lately.  I haven’t seen an amber alert in a while. 

Most of the amber alerts were non custodial parents that failed to return the kid when they were supposed to. Police track them down within 24 hour. Why do I have to hear this? Amber alerts also came in on old phones that were not on a data plan. Esther kept a bunch of old phones charged up so the grandkids could play games on them and take pictures. Amber alerts would come in on all those too.

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19 hours ago, Longjohn said:

A friend from church just called me to see if I was ok. He doesn’t have any power and he saw a tornado went through a few miles from me yesterday. I knew we had fierce wind when I was out on my bike. I saw probably forty trees down along the bike trail but someone had already used equipment and drug them most of the way off the trail. There were a couple trees that fell across the trail but were stopped from falling on the trail by trees on the other side of the trail. They looked precarious but I had room to get under them. The tornado took out a restaurant and a place that builds overhead doors. Esther’s big flat screen tv just sits there like a useless decoration because I sent the satellite box back.

I spent a lot of time on downed trees.  When I coached the cross country team at the high school where I taught, I had a three-mile cross country course for our home meets where only the first 1/2 mile and last 1/2 mile were on the campus outside of the woods bordering the school grounds.

When we'd have a high wind storm, I spent a lot of time with a chain saw back in the woods and there were a couple times when a very tall, two-foot diameter tree fell down on or fell against another tree over the course and I had to clear another path through the woods around them.

By the way, back when the "D.C. Sniper Attacks" were randomly killing people in D.C. and Maryland in 2002, I was fortunate to have a county police officer present at all practices - where I kept the kids out of the woods - and a squad of officers stationed where roads and parking lots approached the woods when I hosted a multi-school meet with hundreds of teenagers running.  I made it a point to spray every tree root extending onto the course with temporary, non-toxic-to-trees, orange fluorescent paint and warned the runners not to elbow runners from other schools into trees where the course turned - as some runners do - because we didn't want anyone downed and unaccounted for at the finish line in a reasonable time.

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