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Old 10-13-2017, 01:32 PM
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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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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.

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You definitely are not from the plains or midwest! We take those things very seriously.
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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.

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Tornado? ... meh.... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...ower-1.4145466

Glad everyone is safe!
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You definitely are not from the plains or midwest! We take those things very seriously.
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.

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Old 10-13-2017, 04:06 PM
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We spent 5 years in Birmingham Alabama where they have real thunderstorms and tornado's.
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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Old 10-14-2017, 08:39 PM
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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.

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Got to set the weather radio to alert for tornado warnings only.
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Old 10-15-2017, 10:38 AM
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Got to set the weather radio to alert for tornado warnings only.
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.

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Old 10-15-2017, 11:59 AM
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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.

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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.
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Old 10-17-2017, 02:03 PM
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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
That sounds pretty cool. Do you have any pictures of tornado shelters that you could share?
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Old 10-18-2017, 07:32 AM
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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.

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