Thoughts and Prayers to Our St Louis Fans and All Those in the Heartland.
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I’m ok I’m in u city didn’t get hit to bad mostly just Clayton and north and west side of the city
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Mother nature can be a bitch; we got hit by a tornado on Easter day 2020 at 11:30 pm. It totally leveled our house, and we were fortunate to survive it without any major injuries. We were fortunate enough to be able to live with some people we knew from church, we lived in their basement apartment for three years while our house was being rebuilt. Until you personally go thru one of these tornados you can never understand the effect it has on your life. I remember it tearing a hole thru the roof of our house and me rolling out of my bed clinging on to the carpet for dear life. I felt like a piece of dirt being sucked up a vacuum cleaner. I feel for those people they need all the support they can get.
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We didn't get hit down where I am thankfully.
But man Midwest storms are no joke. Couple years after retirement I put up a metal greenhouse for the wife to putter around in during the winter and a month later a storm crushed it flat, ripped it up off the cement foundation (I had mounted it to the cement iaw instructions), and threw it out about 500 yards and over my fence into the neighbor's yard. The 2x4 table I built inside it, in the center, ended up with one half on my barn and the other on my garage. Had to repair both roofs and both still have some damage.
I don't even want to think what a tornado feels like. Those winds we had that night were just storm winds.
But man Midwest storms are no joke. Couple years after retirement I put up a metal greenhouse for the wife to putter around in during the winter and a month later a storm crushed it flat, ripped it up off the cement foundation (I had mounted it to the cement iaw instructions), and threw it out about 500 yards and over my fence into the neighbor's yard. The 2x4 table I built inside it, in the center, ended up with one half on my barn and the other on my garage. Had to repair both roofs and both still have some damage.
I don't even want to think what a tornado feels like. Those winds we had that night were just storm winds.
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My Mom and dad moved us to Illinois about a hour outside of Chicago. One day we were outside playing and the neighbor next door came running up and said get inside now, all of a sudden the tornado sirens started. Now we were from California, we didn't know what to do. Then my dad pulled up and had us all get in our root cellar. The neighbor said to us afterwards that the tornado jumped right over our homes and took out an old barn about a mile away.
My mom the next day demanded we go back to California so we did.
My mom the next day demanded we go back to California so we did.
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Y’know? Honestly, I’ll take earthquakes over the storms and tornadoes you guys get in the Midwest and Florida. And I’ve been in some pretty big earthquakes.
I was in Nebraska in early June when I was a kid. It picked up a huge Elm (I think) tree and set it on top of the house we were staying in. It hardly even broke a shingle. There were sticks stuck in the sides of some of the other trees and through the walls of the barn. I’ve never heard such a scary noise as that thing coming through. We were told to get in the bathtub to ride it out. Luckily, it went mostly through the hay fields and didn’t take out the house or cabin we were actually in.
I was in Nebraska in early June when I was a kid. It picked up a huge Elm (I think) tree and set it on top of the house we were staying in. It hardly even broke a shingle. There were sticks stuck in the sides of some of the other trees and through the walls of the barn. I’ve never heard such a scary noise as that thing coming through. We were told to get in the bathtub to ride it out. Luckily, it went mostly through the hay fields and didn’t take out the house or cabin we were actually in.
As much crap as they say about California, much of it true I could not deal with the tornados, softball size hail and tornados they get in the Midwest and Sothern states. Everything you have, all your labor, gone in seconds.
I mean, earthquakes are no joke. When you go through a big one you feel like a mere insect of something. But seldom do they destroy everything you have.
My grandparents moved moved to the North Coast in the 50s from Oklahoma. The family had a 180 acre Sooner spread and we drove to visit when I was a kid. Feather bed, no TV just a giant radio, cooked meals on a large porch, outhouse. 3 ponds full of catfish in one, perch in another and the big one was full of Bass. Giant Monarch butterflies, little bunny rabbits everywhere and fireflies at night. Slower kind of life, it was pretty cool. We even got lunch brought to us on a horse drawn buckboard wagon, picnic basket with the red and white checkers and everything !
In the 80s I worked at a Redwood shingle mill and we made these Super Jumbo Redwood shingles that were 3" thick on one end. Sent to Texas to deal with the giant hailstorms.
Love the people close to you and be thankful of what you do have. I hope those people outside of St. Louis are alright.
I mean, earthquakes are no joke. When you go through a big one you feel like a mere insect of something. But seldom do they destroy everything you have.
My grandparents moved moved to the North Coast in the 50s from Oklahoma. The family had a 180 acre Sooner spread and we drove to visit when I was a kid. Feather bed, no TV just a giant radio, cooked meals on a large porch, outhouse. 3 ponds full of catfish in one, perch in another and the big one was full of Bass. Giant Monarch butterflies, little bunny rabbits everywhere and fireflies at night. Slower kind of life, it was pretty cool. We even got lunch brought to us on a horse drawn buckboard wagon, picnic basket with the red and white checkers and everything !
In the 80s I worked at a Redwood shingle mill and we made these Super Jumbo Redwood shingles that were 3" thick on one end. Sent to Texas to deal with the giant hailstorms.
Love the people close to you and be thankful of what you do have. I hope those people outside of St. Louis are alright.