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The tornados are making the lead on the UK news channels now, the main tornado staying on the ground for 200 miles is difficult to comprehend.
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I must have (literally) slept through that... nothing on our news regarding that last night by the time I went to bed.
we're still drying out. nothing, tractors, bobcats and quadbikes included, can go off and hardcore track at all still. on the bright side, we saved our new deep freeze. we'd had to replace it earlier in the year when the old one just suddenly started tripping out the electrics. got up one morning and no electricity and flipping the trip it just triggered each and every time immediately... so we had to get a new one that morning else risk losing the contents of the freezer.
hubby went out yesterday after I went back to bed (chest infection and antibiotics are knocking me for six) and went out northbound (it's the only direction we can currently travel, shame everything is south and you can't turn around because 1 carriageway is still closed and this is the main Canberra to Sydney highway!) and came home with a solution to the deep freeze taking another swim... if it is ever that deep in water again, we will have much bigger problems on our hands than the deep freeze... I doubt I can actually reach the bottom now without step ladders!
right, whilst I've a little energy left, I need to get some washing on and a few plants in the ground in the veg plot. time for the squashes and courgettes to find out what the veg plot is. (and perhaps a tomato or two as well)
It's been horribly windy today, and a huge temperature drop. It's dropped 30F in about 12 hours, and it's still dropping. It was almost 70F overnight and now it's 38F.
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woke up to a stunningly warm (not) 6°C this morning.
so much for an australian summer this year (give it a month and I'll be moaning about the heat!)
so much for an australian summer this year (give it a month and I'll be moaning about the heat!)
That is not unprecedented. The record for the longest distance from one tornado is 235 miles, set by the Tri-State Tornado of 1925. It started in Missouri, crossed Illinois, and ended in Indiana. The tornado that hit my neighborhood in Mack, Ohio in 1974 started in Indiana, crossed the Ohio River into Kentucky, then crossed the river again into Ohio. It fluctuated between F4 and F5 along its long journey.
CD
I wondered how things were in Cincy. The worst all looked South of you, but I didn't know for sure.
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Somehow, I went down a rabbit hole here at CB having to do with the tag 'Hawaiian Cuisine'.
I think that I will make a project for myself of seriously introducing y'all to the foods of my heritage.
I was not only born, raised and spent the most part of my life in Hawaii,
but I am also of Hawaiian Ancestry.
I attended a school for 13 years that was solely for children of Hawaiian decent.
I was taught the language, culture, religious aspects, you name it!
And yes, I can dance the HULA!
You have connections with local Maori here.
Russ
Wow, Kentucky was really hit hard. They are estimating 80 fatalities in KY, so far. 50 are in the town of mayfield, with many of them killed in one location -- a candle factory with 110 employees working at the time to keep up with Christmas demand.
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Lullabelle
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It is a pity profit came before safety, warnings were issued so why wasn't everywhere on lockdown?
Lullabelle
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Lullabelle
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My sister and her husband are grandparents for the 4th time, 1st girl 
Looking at the remains of the building, I don't think there was anywhere for the people to go. The whole building was leveled. Here is arial video of the factory...
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I don´t think it was a question of profit before safety. Remember that, in the USA, you could face a law suit (ie. get sued) for millions of dollars for the most trivial thing, so I don´t think any of the buildings which were destroyed were lacking on a safety basis.
A tornado can appear almost from nowhere and destroy an entire area in no time at all. That´s the issue; the speed of the tornado was enough to catch people off guard.
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Whole ubs ripped along with their footings ripped from their base, the forces were massive.
The toll will be a lot higher.
Russ
The toll will be a lot higher.
Russ
Whole ubs ripped along with their footings ripped from their base, the forces were massive.
The toll will be a lot higher.
Russ
I read somewhere that the upward moving winds were estimated to be in excess of 165mph/265kph. Not uncommon for a tornado around F3. The NWS has not yet released an F-rating for this storm. The damage looks even worse than an F3, to me.
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