[Magdalen] Weather

[Jay Weigel]

Barometer here going up and down like a yo-yo, much to the amusement (not!)
of my arthritis. Thunderstorms rolled in overnight, but they seemed to be
the usual run of spring storms, no wild winds or anything. It is
exceedingly gloomy this morning and I am not looking forward to going to
the gym.

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:48 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> Scott, when you have a Tornado WARNING, that's not just "should follow a
> good example", that's just stupid! The tornado may be coming from the side
> of the building that your windows don't have a view of.  The "closet"
> (small interior room with _no windows_ on the first floor of the
> building)(could also be a hallway) is the basic standard, repeated by the
> Weatheradio and the media over and over, when you don't have a shelter.
>   When I first saw Dan's post, just by accident, almost as soon as it came
> in, I immediately went to my radar (he and I share the same NOAA radar,
> Springfield, MO), but the thunderous computer-shut-down part of the line of
> storms had already passed me (Springfield is 80 miles slightly to the N of
> E of me, these lines of storms almost always move basically East in this
> country), and Harrison had one Tornado Warning blocked out to the north,
> and another to the south, both in his county, and it's uncertain when the
> things might turn.
>    When The Big One put Joplin through the meat grinder, a person I knew
> and her husband heard the sirens and headed for their bedroom closet (she'd
> been in the front yard setting out bedding plants in a flower bed).  When
> they came out of it, the whole wall on the living room side of the house
> was just gone.
>
>
> On 4/5/17 8:58 AM, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> We should really follow your good example, Dan. We generally head to
>> the windows! :^0
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:58 PM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Severe Thunderstorm possibility of worse. Sirens just went off. Heading
>>> to
>>> the closets shortly.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>