Just had another tornado pass by

Be careful for sure Ebidis, stay safe, keep the news on. Looks like they are calling possibility for more tonight. Really did some damage in Birmingham . Take care Ebidis..
 
DirtySteve said:
Did you hear it? When I lived in Tulsa we had a tornado come very close by. Sounded like a freight train like they say only worse if you ask me. It went passed us and then pretty much leveled the town of Stroud just outside of Tulsa. That was some scary :poo:!
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Yeah, I heard it. Sky went black and all hell broke loose for few seconds.

No damage, and we're safe thank God, but that was too close for comfort.
 
Just saw a video from a guy in his car in Pelham Alabama, stuff smashing all over his vehicle, the houses had roofs taken off trees uprooted all this going on right in front of his eyes, it was brutal.:(
 
Ebidis said:
Yeah, I heard it. Sky went black and all hell broke loose for few seconds.

No damage, and we're safe thank God, but that was too close for comfort.
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The best advice is to tie the doors open with rope, and open all the windows.
This equalizes the air pressure and prevents the house from exploding.
Closing all the doors and windows assures that your roof will pop off, or the house will disintegrate....due to the difference in air pressure between indoors and outdoors.
 
Session 5 said:
Just saw a video from a guy in his car in Pelham Alabama, stuff smashing all over his vehicle, the houses had roofs taken off trees uprooted all this going on right in front of his eyes, it was brutal.:(
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Pelham got hit hard earlier today. Unfortunately, there is another one going through that same area right now. That's about 30 miles south of here.
 
Ebidis said:
Yeah, I heard it. Sky went black and all hell broke loose for few seconds.

No damage, and we're safe thank God, but that was too close for comfort.
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Tornados are scary for sure. Been fortunate that the nearest miss to where I live was still several miles away. However, one Sunday several years ago in late November an F4-5 went thru Washington Illinois. Google it for details. My eldest is an 8th grade teacher in Washington. Tornado missed his school my no more than 100 yards. The sub division next to the school where a lot of his students lived.... looked like a vacuum cleaner went thru. Fortunately, only one fatality (a gentleman in his 70 or 80s)...... but no major injuries. He was able to get into the neighborhood a few days later to offer any help he could. Said TV doesn’t even begin to show the devastation.

Happy you and your family are okay.... prayers going up for those not so fortunate.
 
I thought some in Birmingham had em...the ones on the hills or maybe those are just partial (like three sides underground type thing?

Hope the worst is past.
 
Amp Mad Scientist said:
The best advice is to tie the doors open with rope, and open all the windows.
This equalizes the air pressure and prevents the house from exploding.
Closing all the doors and windows assures that your roof will pop off, or the house will disintegrate....due to the difference in air pressure between indoors and outdoors.
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I've heard about this before, and it does make sense about uneven air pressure if the home has a tight seal, but I never hear it discussed in the news channels or weather programs. If the air pressure in the tornado and the air pressure inside of the home are even, the home is still going to get F'd up.
 
Was listening to the news, and there were reports of a tornado hitting Millbury, Vermont today. We had a bad one go through Springfield all the way to Sturbridge about eight years ago. The weather’s getting weirder, now that we get them here in New England.
 
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