proud2Blib! Are you out of the basement yet?

[MuseRider]

Are you all OK in KC? I have not heard any reports but wanted to check. Greenbriar is also in the basement. I am out of the basement for now. Please let us know when you get out how you are.

KC DUers, this is a very nasty line of storms. Please check in and let us know how you are.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. You guys STAY SAFE

[gateley]

Kick. nt

[Fovea]

2. I was out of the basement a while ago, but

that was to chain the trashcans down.
The hail was exciting.
I think it is better now, here in KCKS.

[MuseRider]

4. Glad you are OK.

Hail is always exciting isn't it? :eyes: I hate that stuff.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Every time it calms down it just starts back up again.

This is a major storm.

[MuseRider]

22. Yes it is.

Be careful.

I have damage here on the farm. Trees are in bad shape in some areas. It is very def a nasty one.

[greenbriar]

27. I know

I don't know whether to stay up or go to bed

[evlbstrd]

3. OK in Westport.

I didn't go to the basement. I had a film crew working here.

[MuseRider]

5. I was just thinking about you.

I am glad you are OK. Did they film the storm? It was a great sight here.

[evlbstrd]

8. They were hoping it would rain while they were here.

They wrapped before it came through. But now they're downtown shooting in the storm.

[MuseRider]

12. They ought to get some great

footage. This was a stunner when it was here. Great shots are coming in.

[evlbstrd]

14. Great audio, too.

It's a story of a love triangle. This is perfect.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Hmmm

Making porn films during a thunderstorm?

Oh well, whatever floats your boat I guess. :shrug:

[evlbstrd]

26. Got any better ideas?

It makes up for the shitty story line and dialog.

[Tashca]

6. I think we might be done for the night...or close anyway

Here in the Cedar Rapids area we are on the edge and I think it is finally ready to leave. Of course I have thought that more than once the last couple of hours......
It appears a tremendous amount of moisture is heading north.....toward Wisconsin.

I hate to say this but it appears you guys are in the pattern we were for the weeks leading up to the massive floods...I certainly hope not.

[MuseRider]

10. I hope it is over for you.

The news has been so sad to hear.

We had massive flooding here last year. I hope we don't do that again.

Good luck to you.

[malaise]

7. How much longer is this dangerous weather going to

last? I really feel sorry for all of you. :grouphug:

[MuseRider]

11. Who knows?

This could go on for a long time or stop any time. It has been an unusually active spring.

Thanks for the hugs. :grouphug: back at ya!

[MuseRider]

24. Hey wait a minute!

You have had some nasty hurricanes in Jamaica lately so don't feel sorry for us! I have been in a hurricane but only the front edge before we caught a flight. It was not fun.

Thanks for feeling sorry for us, we will return the favor if you get hit again. I hope it does not happen. Fingers crossed.

[greenbriar]

9. we are up but there is another storm on the way in

and it is pretty unstable

[MuseRider]

13. Great.

Deep breaths, this will pass eventually but then it will be ice!

[greenbriar]

29. Did I ever tell you

I LOVE your clarinet



I was first chair in High school and won the JOhn Phillips Sousa award my 12th grade year

[TwilightGardener]

15. Quiet and nice up here in SE Nebraska, we will send it your way tomorrow--

we had our tornadoes last night. Seems like all the Midwest and eastern Plains are just getting walloped this year, more than usual. Good luck!

[MuseRider]

16. Yes you did get it last night.

Kansas did too but it was West of me, West of most of us who post here. KSU was really messed up in Manhattan. It is so sad because it was such a beautiful campus with all the old buildings and huge trees. The trees are mangled and the buildings blown apart in some cases.

Maybe tomorrow it will go even farther to the East or maybe it will just stop so nobody else has to deal with it.

Yes we are getting walloped. The winter was not an easy one either. Gotta love the midwest.

:hi: Northern neighbor! Thanks for sending the quiet weather tomorrow.

[EFerrari]

17. Kick

:scared:

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Never went down there

It's too wet. We have had so much rain our sump pump is overwhelmed. So I am in my living room listening to the lightning and thunder. Kid is in the basement in the studio banging on the drums and DH is in bed sound asleep.

Just another spring evening for this typical Kansas family.

[MuseRider]

23. LOL

We were on top of the house taking pictures, it was impressive, until we realized it was headed straight for us. By the time we got in the basement it was on top of us. Scary sounding. Thankfully it only went over us, it roared rather than the train sound that is so often heard with tornadoes on the ground. Lots and lots of funnel clouds.

Be watchful and safe. We are done here.

Glad to hear from you.

[orleans]

21. kick

here's a storm map
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/

stay safe everyone. (what a fucking drag--chicago & burbs have been okay--knock on wood--)

[atommom]

25. Stay safe, everybody. I feel compelled to keep checking the radar.

We've had far too many twisters lately.

[tblue37]

28. It seems we get a thunderstorm with hail

almost every single night now.

I am in Lawrence, so we get the storms as they move east from Topeka or west from KC. Wee lost electricity for a while, but when it came back on, I was able to watch TV video of tornadoes forming and very briefly touching down in KC and elsewhere--including just on the outskirts of Lawrence and near De Soto.

This has been a hell of a storm season already, and it is just the middle of June!

[proud2BlibKansan]

30. LOL This thread has 5 votes!

[Breeze54]

31. Hey! You said you were ok.... did you get hit?

I hope you and yours are OK!!!!

No word yet from P2BL or GB?

[MuseRider]

32. Hey Breeze!

Both Proud and GB posted above and last I heard both were fine.

It came right over my house. We could hear it. Nasty things they are. A couple of trees hit by lightning I think but I could not get out there because the pasture was running like a river. Some big tree branches down, little ones everywhere and the tops of a strip of them look like they had haircuts. Other than that as far as I know things are fine. I may have some surprises as I coast around looking but nothing bad I am certain.

Thanks for asking. There are some pictures on another thread, I think about a tornado in Topeka that Proud posted last night.

Edit to add photos so you don't have to search

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3439378&mesg_id=3440287

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3439378&mesg_id=3440123

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3439378&mesg_id=3440393

[Breeze54]

35. Damn! That must've happened after we signed off the other night....

Right over your house?!? Holy Shit!! I'm glad you're ok and
it was just a couple of tree's and debris. I saw reports on
the news here... they've been talking about it on every news
hour. Thanks for the links... I'll go look. Be careful!!

[MuseRider]

36. They have? The news? Kansas storms?

Well, this is a particularly busy storm year but news outside of Kansas? Huh. If it is not some really stupid creationist bullshit or Fred Phelps I can't imagine Kansas in the news anywhere else. (hey, that is one of the reasons I love it here. Nobody thinks it is fit to live in so we just stretch out and breath mostly clean air)

Yes, that came directly over. Turns out there was a spotter watching it. We are in the house that we built on the farm, have been in it for 9 months after waiting and saving for countless years to get out here. All we could think of was why not the old house that we can't sell? It was loud but thankfully above the ground.

[Breeze54]

38. Yup! It's been on all my news stations for the last few days... video and everything!

MA TV News covers a lot from morning until night... although it seems like all they talk about
is The Celtics lately but they have covered Kansas and Iowa especially! Yup! You made national! ;)

[KansDem]

33. Don't have a basement...

I've got a crawl space that I can get into through the garage, but I always scrape and bang-up my knees and shins when I crawl through the little entryway, so it would have to be storming pretty hard for me to seek cover.

[MuseRider]

37. Yikes!

It must not have been that bad where you are then if you did not go. I never go into our basement unless it is night and I can't see or it is looking very bad and close like last night.

Now I must worry about you when it storms.

[proud2BlibKansan]

40. I am amazed they even build houses here without basements

Remember the Ruskin tornado in 1957? Some of those people were killed while they were running to the one house on each block that had a basement. :scared:

[Solly Mack]

34. You take care!!!

All of y'all need to take care!

[MuseRider]

39. Hey Solly!

I thought of you Wednesday night when they thought Ft. Riley was hit. (I really think of you much more often for other reasons but particularly Wed night) I think even Junction City was OK although they were saying there was damage. Did you see what happened to Manhattan? An F4 and it hit campus. It is a mess. Lots of pictures on WIBW website if you are interested. Sad to see, so many old trees and buildings.

[Solly Mack]

41. Hiya Muse ! Haven't seen the pictures yet. Will go check

Glad you're OK!!!