Respect the weather
Posted on May 30, 2004
At the moment, the whole of Marion county (including Indianapolis) is under a Tornado Warning. Downtown, aside from rain and the occassional thunder/lightning combo, the weather isn’t too bad. It is slightly dark outside, but it is also past 7:00 pm. However, for about the past half-hour, I have been hearing the tornado sirens going off every 5 – 10 minutes. I keep checking the local weather sites, and it looks like this is a small cell that is working its way towards Indy. if the fact that this small cell has spawned some tornados wasn’t worrisome enough, there are a whole bunch of larger storms in Illinois also making their way to Indiana.
I’ve been updating the categories in the downloads section, and I will upload some files, but I will probably wait until the weather clears a bit, as my computer is rather close to the bay window of my apartment.
(keeps fingers crossed…knocks on wood)
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I just left the apartment to go to the store. I stepped out of the building and into a small river where the alley was. I’ve been listening to the tornado warnings (now extneded due to the coming storms), but I haven’t heard anything about flooding.
Anyway, last week, we had a huge windstorm (not tornadic) that knocked over a bunch of trees in my neighborhood and did various damage elsewhere in the city. Some of the trees it damaged didn’t actually fall completely over, but inherited a list (tilt). It wasn’t enough wind to knock them down, but just enough that they’re no longer perpendicular to the ground. On the way to the store, there is a tree that overhangs the sidewalk, and (in good weather) I normally have to duck my head a bit to walk under it. This past week, it seemed like it was hanging down a bit lower, but I couldn’t decide if it was my imagination, or if it was real. Today, when I went to the store, I am fairly certain it is not my imagination. I had to duck quite a bit to walk under this tree. However, I can’t decide if it is damage from the windstorm or if the limbs are lower due to the rain we’ve been getting today.
BTW, there are hundreds of thousands of visitors in Indy today because of the Indy 500 and the Game 5 of the Pacers/Pistons playoff series (The Speedway seats 250,000+). I bet the hotels are having an interesting time, not to mention the airport.
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I’m listening to WIBC on my TV – my TV has an FM radio tuner in it. Actually, IIRC, WIBC is an AM station, so some of the stations are playing feeds off of the news radio stations. Tornado warnings and watches are going off all over the state. In good news, it looks like Indianapolis is only under a watch at the moment. In the bad news, a town hit by a tornado earlier is under a tornado warning once again. I don’t know what this means for Indy.
I decided to get out a flashlight and a candle…just in case :-)
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I was just checking the web and found out something interesting. According to this site, the record for the most tornados from one outbreak is – 148!!! That was from “The Super Outbreak” in 1974. That ranked #2 on The Weather Channel’s Storms of the Century. Of course, we are in a new century, so I guess we have to start off fresh. I wonder what the count for this outbreak will be.
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8:50 pm
I think we are starting to get the next in the wave of storms. For the moment, there are no sirens.
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