Huge TORNADOES photographed in Connecticut.

[Atman]

Heading right towards me, here in Hartford area. HOLY SCHNIKEES! This is Connecticut, not KANSAS!

Weird shit, man!

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[slackmaster]

1. Link to photos?

Please don't keep us in suspense!

[Atman]

4. It's on the news now. Moving into my town in ten minutes.

70 mph winds and tornadoes. Just blew into Hartford. Wild stuff, man!

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[Midlodemocrat]

10. I remember storms like that when I lived in CT.

Scary. But, at least we had a basement for the rare tornado warning. Here, we have these damn watches and warnings all the time and no basement. Go figure.

[Cetacea]

21. I don't. (nt)

[helderheid]

34. Get thee to a basement ASAP!

[TroglodyteScholar]

12. link

Well, there's a little picture on the WFSB front page, but I can't find a bigger version. Maybe it's just a stock photo. Not sure.

http://www.wfsb.com/weather/13715214/detail.html

[Atman]

17. Thanks! Pretty wild pics.

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[MuseRider]

2. Take care and be careful Atman!

Do you all even have shelters? Man, interior room with as many walls between you and the outside that you can find. Go now and let us know if you are OK when it is all over.

[Atman]

5. Tornado shelters in Hartford?

Actually, I think they just discontinued the WARNING, and we're back to a watch.

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[MuseRider]

13. Well, that is what I figured.

Perhaps shelters will be the wave of the future?

I would bet you have a great sky to watch right about now.

I love Connecticut and have relatives there who I get to visit so I want it to stay just like it is. I can get what you are getting every year but it is nice to escape when you need to.

Link the pictures when you can but be careful, those watches can turn nasty very quickly.

[displacedtexan]

3. Head for the cellar!

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. Go to

an interior room, closet or hallway. Better yet, get in the bathtub (unfilled and dry of course). Stay there until the storm passes. A pillow to cover your head and a battery powered radio are good things to have available. Stay away from windows and doors.

I abso-fucking-lutely hate tornadic storms - and I live in (J)Oklahoma.....

[Atman]

7. Pretty freakin' weird to have this stuff in Connecticut!

The teevee is on...it's hitting my town (Whethersfield) right now. Calling for 1/2 in hail, too.

Yikes!

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[Coyote_Bandit]

19. Mother Earth

has lost her mind.

We just had 39 days of consecutive rainfall here in Tulsa. Last year we had fires from the prolonged drought. Both this year and last year were very mild in term of storm and tornado activity.

Stay safe. With half inch hail you may be getting a new roof though.....

[Uncle Joe]

31. Mother Earth

is pissed, and she's not taking it anymore, she has been running a temperature and it's only going up, she's bloated and cramped as well with 6+ billion humans and assorted farm animals crawling all over her and that's also only going up. To ignore your mother when she gets in such a state is to invite trouble.

Good luck to everyone facing this or these tornadoes.

[Tesha]

45. No, she's just trying to clear up this nasty, raging infection she's acquired. (NT)

[MissB]

8. Wow.

Stay safe.

[zeemike]

9. Tornadoes: ... there not just for Kansas anymore n/t

[Atman]

11. It's as dark as 8:30 at night right now!

Wow.

:scared:

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[MissB]

14. Just don't go outside.

[RC Quake]

15. Stay Safe!

Survivor of an F5 here...they can be scary!

[Atman]

16. Storm centered over Hartford right now.

It's a couple minutes late!

But just in time for rush hour. Like Hartford roads don't suck enough.

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[malaise]

18. Stay safe

I hope my brother and his family are OK.

[devilgrrl]

20. Didn't Windsor Locks get nailed by a tornado back in the 80's?

scared:

[DemoTex]

25. Yes, it damaged the museum aircraft at BDL.

BDL = Hartford/Springfield/Windsor Locks Bradley International

[devilgrrl]

28. We used hang around that museum when we were little kids...

and run to the living room window when a airplane was landing at Bradley Field. "Look! It's a Pan/Am jet!"

[DemoTex]

30. I remember because the Lockheed P-2V on static display at BDL was damaged.

I flew SP2Es in a former life.


Two turnin' and two burnin'

[devilgrrl]

37. Oh dear, this discussion is making me miss my grand-parents.

We used to beg our grand-father to give us money to buy tickets into the Air Museum. He was thrifty and wouldn't budge. :-( I thought all of the planes there were really cool and would have killed to crawl all over them.

I wonder if my fellow-DUer brother is reading this thread? He's a serious Airplane buff.

[DemoTex]

22. 40,000-ft Mesocyclonic cell moving ENE at 36 knots southwest of HFD.

REAL-TIME IMAGE

[Marrah_G]

44. Eep

I am right at the northeast tip of the yellow on the mass/ri border. Looks like it's going to be an interesting evening.

[madinmaryland]

23. I remember when I bought a house in Watertown in 1989,

a tornado blew through town three days before we closed. Fortunately it was north of where I bought by about four miles and our area was fine.

[toddaa]

24. Don't head to the basement

Only sissy East Coasters head to the basement. Hearty Midwesterners grab their camcorders and head outside to capture footage to send to the local news.

[GumboYaYa]

26. Yeah but they are morans. :)

[Blue Diadem]

41. Nah, we're just used to so many warnings. Now if they get too close

then we head for the basement.

[JVS]

36. Yeah, but only after doing a good toot of meth

[LSK]

38. some Midwesterners dont even have a basement

:scared:

[Atman]

27. Everything looks good. Sun is starting to peek out

Back edge of the front, I guess.

It never really got that bad where I am. Torrential rain, but not even any thunder or lightening. Summer storms...gotta love 'em.

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[Blue Diadem]

42. Glad Mother Nature has settled down. n/t

[hedgehog]

29. I keep hearing about a nor'easter down your way this week.

Isn't that pretty strange for July?

[JerseygirlCT]

32. It was quite a fun drive home at 4:15 or so, I tell ya.

But really just very heavy rain -- I didn't even see any lightening.

But the tornado warnings were in place farther south in CT, where I live. Guess we dodged that bullet.

I'm naive and weird, but I find these storms sort of exciting. But then again, I've never lived through a tornado.

[AntiFascist]

33. Cool, I was searching for a pic of the tornado from Wizard of Oz...

and I ran across this:

THE WIZARD OF OZ ... A CODED MESSAGE FOR AN ECONOMY IN CRISIS

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=96241


<snip>
The Tin Man also carries an ax. Did you ever wonder about that? The ax is a traditional symbol for that which is above a King. In this case, commercial law, i.e. Corporate Rule is above the sovereign! It's not a nice connotation -- any more than the "Axis Powers" of World War II included Nazi Germany, Italy (a fascist state) and Japan; or the more recent "Axis of Evil", coined by President George Bush in 2002, but curiously not yet applied to Cheney, Ashcroft and himself -- the ABCs of such.

The Tin Man, expressing relief after Dorothy had oiled his arm, said: "I've held that ax up for ages." And perhaps he is still having to do so. For the symbol for fascism is the "fasces", a bundle of rods with an ax bound up in the middle, but with its blade projecting. This fasces may be found on the American Mercury-head Dime (the Roman deity Mercury was the God of Commerce), and on the wall behind, and on each side of, the speaker's podium in the US Senate (each gold fasces being approximately six feet in height). At the base of the podium of the seal of the US Senate are two crossed fasces. Hmmmm...

Dorothy, the Scarecrow and Tin Man are soon joined by the Cowardly Lion. Known as the "king of the beasts", it's surprising to find one so cowardly. It appears to represent the once-fearless American people who had lost their courage, the courage to denounce the US Bankruptcy, and inform its creditors that they were not the chattel that could be used as collateral for the moneys allegedly owed. Of course, dealing with the IRS tends to leave most of us in the cowardly state; but that is due in large part to the heartless, brainless actions of an organization operating strictly under the laws of Commerce.

<snip>

[Mind_your_head]

39. Funny you should post this - was just reading last nite about Mercury (Hermes)

Hermes - Greek
Mercury - Roman

Hermes also happens to be the god that leads the dead to the underworld and is not only associated with wealth and commerce, but happens to be the patron of thieves (he is a classic trickster figure in Greek myths).

[Forkboy]

35. I'm up in Fitchburg,Ma and last year we had two F2's in the area.

Nothing big to the poor people down South of course,but very,very rare for this area.Western Mass can get the occasional one,but Hampton Beach and the Merrimack Valley? That's weird shit too.

Stay safe!!!

[lovuian]

40. Take cover Atman

Hunker down

[Marrah_G]

43. WTF?

CT tornadoes????????????????????????

Yikes try and find some cover CTers.

I'm hoping it calms down some before the storms hit here on the RI/MA border.

Any weather buffs out there? This is not normal right?