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27 April 2015, 20:01 #16
Got lucky. We were right in a hole where the worst we had was severe lightning/precip/wind. I guess there was some flooding in some places downtown.
Oh yeah? Where do you go? We tried 3C when we first got here about a year ago but haven't really been since. The wife keeps telling me we need to check out Global Sphere Center.-One Nation, Under God
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27 April 2015, 20:07 #17
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27 April 2015, 21:44 #18Oh yeah? Where do you go? We tried 3C when we first got here about a year ago but haven't really been since. The wife keeps telling me we need to check out Global Sphere Center.
Y'all should come sometime.I am a Christian, a family man, in a wheelchair, in remission (CML).
Nice to meet you
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27 April 2015, 22:14 #19
Glad you're safe. Very glad we don't get tornadoes here in the mountains too.
Freedom is NEVER Free. We have to work to protect it and even be willing to die to protect it.
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27 April 2015, 23:27 #20LEO / MIL
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28 April 2015, 02:42 #21
Glad you're safe! Definitely not something i'd want to wake up to.
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28 April 2015, 05:17 #22
Glad you guys are ok.
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28 April 2015, 10:51 #23
The F numbers designate the wind speeds in the tornado like Force numbers designate the strength of wind or Category numbers the strength of hurricanes. The higher the F number, the more dangerous the tornado is. To snap and uproot trees like that it would have had to be probably a F2 tornado. You're lucky, because it would have flattened the house if it hit it. I'd fire up the chainsaws and cut the trees up for firewood too. However, if they are your trees, I'd probably get in touch with the insurance co. so they could cover sending a crew out with large chainsaws to cut up the trunks. With all that wood, if you don't have a splitter, you're going to want to get one.
Freedom is NEVER Free. We have to work to protect it and even be willing to die to protect it.
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28 April 2015, 10:51 #24
Thanks everyone for the well wishes. Its almost all back to normal around here. A bunch of people still don't have power but that's it. Hopefully it dries out some so we can clean up. We have a 4wd kabota and even that thing will get stuck out there right now in some spots.
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28 April 2015, 11:00 #25
A lot of the bigger trees were on other people's places. One of our neighbors has a commercial tree business so he's helping take care of a lot of the older folks around. I bought a brand new stihl chainsaw for Christmas and that sucker works like a charm. We have a brush pile and we will pull the logs and other stuff with a tractor. We have a front end loader too. We are gonna have us a bon fire
The oak though is definitely going in the firewood pile. My cousin down the road has a log splitter we can put on the tractor and split what we need to. All those big pine tops and random branches are just going to be bonfire wood though.
My Saturday just got booked from the looks of it. LOL
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28 April 2015, 11:08 #26
As for the wind speeds the news stations have weather stations around and in those places (that did not get hit) clocked 100++mph winds. We can only guess what the winds were out where I am at. We are 20 miles from where they were measuring from that one report I heard. Its safe to say it was easily 100+ mph winds and probably a lot more.
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28 April 2015, 22:11 #27
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