You good duder? Didn't see that KC got any action yesterday but never know. Boeing plant my grandfather used to work at in Wichita got hit pretty hard apparently, it and surrounding areas estimated $280 mill in damage. Scary stuff.
I'm in Jefferson City until tomorrow, we got pounded today with rain and a little hail but nothing out of the ordinary. I called some friends of mine back in kansas city today, and they just got normal rain, but things further south (Whichita, Emporia, Clinton, etc etc) were assraped like a child molestor in prison. Hopefully for my drive home tomorrow, things will be calm again.
We got a ton of rain and high winds all weekend but the really bad stuff was to the west. I read somewhere this is only the second time the NWS has issued a region-wide 24-hr. tornado advisory. (By region-wide they meant an area on a line between OK City and Minneapolis) They claim they have a better ability to make these broader predictions now.
I swear we had a mini tonado touch down in Yorba Linda on Friday. We're in a pretty beefy 80k sqare foot tilt up 2 story building and it shook the shit out of my office deep inside the ground level. Then went outside to fallen palm leaves everywhere. Shit was pretty crazy for a few minutes after heavy rain for 5-6 hours. Hope you all are doing ok.
I felt like I was in a damn tornado driving home tonight. Torrential downpour + 35-40mph winds + hydroplaning all over the road = ehhh... but yeah, looks like Kansas and Oklahoma got the worst of it with some of it Nebraska. The Weather Channel keeps showing all the trailer parks that got destroyed. I still wonder why people who live in bumfuck nowhere in the plains states would choose to live in a trailer park, knowing damn well that tornadoes are magnetic to those types of places. edit: Reminds me of when I lived in Chicago and drove about an hour and a half southwest on I-55 to a town called "Dwight" to buy drugs. Half the town was a rotten ass trailer park, the other half was farm houses and a bar. At the end of town, the land was so flat you could see for miles, with nothing but fields surrounding the place. Then it started to storm, hot humid summer night. I got the fuck out of there.
Economics make it mandetory for most that live in those dwellings. 1/3-1/4 of the rent/purchase price of a house. But they definately aren't safe, especially in tornado alley.
Plus you should see one totally ablaze. IIRC, the flames were a bright green (from all the aluminum?)(Mebbe there was a meth lab inside?)
Copper sulfate or boric acid (borax) will burn green, and sometimes wood such as Cedar will burn different colors from what I've just read. Ooh! Fireworks!
