Thoughts and Prayers to Our St Louis Fans and All Those in the Heartland.

[RamFan503]

I hope you all are making it through these tornados and terrible storms.

Check in when you can.

 

[Memento]

I’m here. My sister’s area (Clayton) got nailed. She’s got no power, and there’s power lines everywhere, so she’s at my folks’ house with her boyfriend and their three cats.

 

[den-the-coach]

I’m here. My sister’s area (Clayton) got nailed. She’s got no power, and there’s power lines everywhere, so she’s at my folks’ house with her boyfriend and their three cats.

Praying

 

[den-the-coach]

 

[RamBradford85]

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

 

[Loyal]

Nothing but blue skies in my part of east central Kansas. Prayers for Missouri.....

 

[Ramstien]

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.

 

[Merlin]

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.

 

[RAMSinLA]

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.

 

[RamFan503]

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.

 

[gogoat1]

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.

 

[Memento]

Honestly would take hurricanes over tornadoes any day. Hurricanes are at least somewhat predictable. Hurricanes, you can at least ride them out.

No such things with tornadoes. Completely unpredictable, whimsical and full of destruction. I’ve heard a story where a tornado picked up a train full of passengers and put the train on the other tracks without any major injuries, and I’ve seen trees - full-grown trees - get ripped out, roots and all and flung around like a child would throw a stick.

There’s nothing in Mother Nature I’m more terrified of than tornadoes.

 

[RAMSinLA]

We lived in Sylmar when the Sylmar earthquake hit. My brother and I shared a room. I was in Jr High he was just a kid. I got up from bed and was going to the bathroom. Then I remembered it was a Teachers meeting day and there was no school. I smiled and then it started shaking violently. I heard my brother scream and I dove into his bed. We had beds on caster wheels, one of those corner units where one bed pushes under a corner table when not used as a bed. And that bed was rolling around the room.
Then I heard splashing outside my window. Come to find out the shaking nearly emptied our pool.
Our house was fine but our block wall around the home fell down.
We had no plumbing for weeks. The city had to set up porta johns on the corner. Lots of damage and loss of life.

 

[RamFan503]

We lived in Sylmar when the Sylmar earthquake hit. My brother and I shared a room. I was in Jr High he was just a kid. I got up from bed and was going to the bathroom. Then I remembered it was a Teachers meeting day and there was no school. I smiled and then it started shaking violently. I heard my brother scream and I dove into his bed. We had beds on caster wheels, one of those corner units where one bed pushes under a corner table when not used as a bed. And that bed was rolling around the room.
Then I heard splashing outside my window. Come to find out the shaking nearly emptied our pool.
Our house was fine but our block wall around the home fell down.
We had no plumbing for weeks. The city had to set up porta johns on the corner. Lots of damage and loss of life.

I was living in Canoga Park during that quake. My dad had built bunk beds into the corner of our room. As soon as it started, my brother swung from his top bunk and landed right on my head. Then we heard my dad yelling to get out of the house. We lived in the old ranch house on Corbin and Parthenia. As with a lot of houses down there, it was made from cinder block and my dad wanted us out of there.

We all met out on the patio and watched as our junior olympic sized pool sent waves over the 6ft fence.

When the quake was done, the 12 1/2 foot deep pool had about a foot of water in it and there were no cracks. The coving on one side was about an inch higher than the other side but other than that, no damage.

The house suffered a crack from roof to foundation on the entry side of the house that my dad was able to “fix” (see hide) but no damage other than that.

I remember a whole wing of the Kaiser hospital I was born in was leveled as were several freeway over passes and cinder block walls all over the place.

Pretty wild quake for sure.

 

[RAMSinLA]

I was living in Canoga Park during that quake. My dad had built bunk beds into the corner of our room. As soon as it started, my brother swung from his top bunk and landed right on my head. Then we heard my dad yelling to get out of the house. We lived in the old ranch house on Corbin and Parthenia. As with a lot of houses down there, it was made from cinder block and my dad wanted us out of there.

We all met out on the patio and watched as our junior olympic sized pool sent waves over the 6ft fence.

When the quake was done, the 12 1/2 foot deep pool had about a foot of water in it and there were no cracks. The coving on one side was about an inch higher than the other side but other than that, no damage.

The house suffered a crack from roof to foundation on the entry side of the house that my dad was able to “fix” (see hide) but no damage other than that.

I remember a whole wing of the Kaiser hospital I was born in was leveled as were several freeway over passes and cinder block walls all over the place.

Pretty wild quake for sure.

It was a strong earthquake, the area around our home in Sylmar was devastated. Nothing was open. And it affected the entire SF valley. By the way we moved to a home near Nordhoff St & Winnetka Ave after that. So I know your area well.