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10-13-2017, 01:32 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
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Glad everyone is okay
There?s nothing like a Tornado to cause massive destruction. I live in Tornado Alley (Oklahoma City) and our bad weather season is early-May to mid-June. It?s been several years since we?ve experienced a really bad Tornado season so our time is coming. It appears your season is mid-October.
Glad everyone is okay!
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10-13-2017, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 242
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Originally Posted by N402RH
All the cell phones in the office went off saying tornado on the ground and to take cover, so naturally everyone ran outside to look for it.
Rob Hickman
Advanced Flight Systems
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You definitely are not from the plains or midwest! We take those things very seriously.
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10-13-2017, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
Posts: 214
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Quote:
Originally Posted by N402RH
All the cell phones in the office went off saying tornado on the ground and to take cover, so naturally everyone ran outside to look for it.
Rob Hickman
Advanced Flight Systems
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Tornado? ... meh.... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...ower-1.4145466
Glad everyone is safe!
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10-13-2017, 03:39 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 706
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Originally Posted by keen9a
You definitely are not from the plains or midwest! We take those things very seriously.
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We spent 5 years in Birmingham Alabama where they have real thunderstorms and tornado's. When we first moved to Alabama we bought one of those fancy weather radios that would go off and save your life. After a few weeks of it going off in the middle of the night all the time we turned it off.
Rob Hickman
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10-13-2017, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Posts: 1,645
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We spent 5 years in Birmingham Alabama where they have real thunderstorms and tornado's.
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Truth! We live in a newer house in a neighborhood that was wiped off the planet earth by an F5. They just leveled everything and started over it was so bad. All the new houses have built-in tornado shelters in the basement. I store finished airplane parts in ours 
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10-14-2017, 08:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 242
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Quote:
Originally Posted by N402RH
We spent 5 years in Birmingham Alabama where they have real thunderstorms and tornado's. When we first moved to Alabama we bought one of those fancy weather radios that would go off and save your life. After a few weeks of it going off in the middle of the night all the time we turned it off.
Rob Hickman
N402RH RV-10
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Got to set the weather radio to alert for tornado warnings only.
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10-15-2017, 10:38 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 706
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Originally Posted by keen9a
Got to set the weather radio to alert for tornado warnings only.
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It was 20 years ago and would go off for anything within 100 miles, technology has improved. We ended up moving back to Portland where we really don't have any bad weather and you can drive to Van's and pick up your parts
When we were in the Sun-n-Fun tornado Foreflight actually drew a tornado on the screen.
Rob Hickman
N402RH RV-10
Last edited by N402RH : 10-15-2017 at 10:44 AM.
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10-15-2017, 11:59 AM
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been here awhile
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Alabama
Posts: 4,301
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Originally Posted by N402RH
It was 20 years ago and would go off for anything within 100 miles, technology has improved. We ended up moving back to Portland where we really don't have any bad weather and you can drive to Van's and pick up your parts
When we were in the Sun-n-Fun tornado Foreflight actually drew a tornado on the screen.
Rob Hickman
N402RH RV-10
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Yep, weather warning tech certainly has improved in the past twenty years. In our area (north Alabama...lots of tornadoes) the weather radios can now be programmed for an area about ten miles in diameter. This has eliminated most nuisance alarms. In spite of being within two miles of multiple massive F4 and F5 tornadoes over the past thirty years, our airport (DCU) has escaped unharmed. We did have a couple of Antonov bipes tear loose from their mooring and take flight across the adjoining soybean field. Anyone need a couple of huge "bent-wing" biplanes? Maybe that North Korean guy can use them in his air force for parts planes. 
Last edited by Sam Buchanan : 10-15-2017 at 12:05 PM.
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10-17-2017, 02:03 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Chantilly, VA
Posts: 93
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Originally Posted by bkervaski
Truth! We live in a newer house in a neighborhood that was wiped off the planet earth by an F5. They just leveled everything and started over it was so bad. All the new houses have built-in tornado shelters in the basement. I store finished airplane parts in ours 
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That sounds pretty cool. Do you have any pictures of tornado shelters that you could share?
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10-18-2017, 07:32 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Near Scipio, in Southern Indiana
Posts: 1,779
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We have our share here in Indiana. Back in the 80s I owned an ultralight (a Phantom) that survived three. On the worst occasion, I went to the airport to see if there were any remains. There it sat, in the open where a hangar had once stood, tied down with some of the remains of the hangar under its wheels! The ropes were noticeably stretched. After hours of inspection, but very little work, it was in the air again. The other four planes in that hangar row were destroyed or seriously damaged. Only one was salvageable. Luck beyond understanding. Hangar or not, I ALWAYS tie down.
Here, if you want to predict the path of a tornado, just draw a line between airports. Tornado magnets, they are. Glad you guys were lucky, too.
Bob
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