[AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

[charlie hill]

It was quite a show here if you were able to detach emotionally from it. 
There is an ABC affiliate in my town and CBS and NBC are about 45 miles 
away.  All three stations have Doppler radar and well trained meteorologist. 
For a while there were 5 distinct lines of tornadoes on the ground at once 
spreading from the Raleigh area all the way to the coast.  The TV weather 
guys all did a find job but I promise you they needed a stiff drink and a 
good shower when the last of the storms cleared about 9 pm.   In the middle 
of it all, our local ABC affiliate was taking repeated lightning strikes to 
their tower.
It didn't knock the off the air but it was playing havoc with their video. 
For 30 minutes or longer they had an unintended split screen with the top 
half of the image at the bottom of the screen.   The weather folks were 
using their computers to tell folks the path of the storms and the predicted 
impact times on different communities.   They did a wonderful job and 
probably saved some lives.
Normally our tornadoes here are of short duration so community horns and 
alarms are not effective.   Therefore we don't have any.   These storms were 
of the same sort as you guys in the Midwest have where the tornado covers a 
track 40, 50 or maybe 100 miles long.  If it hadn't been for the TV guys 
folks would not have known what to do.  One tornado passed right over the 
town where I grew up and where my soon to be 93 year old mother still lives. 
She lost power.  Luckily the storm didn't touch down as it passed over the 
town but I was able to talk to her on her cell phone and tell her when the 
storm had passed over so she could come out of her safe spot in the middle 
of the house.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:13 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: [AT] Now NC twisters: was Mina problem

This outbreak is the most severe in nearly 30 years.   A lot of families in 
shelters over the last few nights.  As for me and the ATIS servers; the 
storms hadn't gotten fired up good when they came thru NW N.C.  So things 
were fine here except just a few trees were down and we got 1.4" rain in 
about 15 minutes.

Spencer

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On Apr 18, 2011, at 8:41, Bob McNitt <nysports at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Charlie - It certainly looks like he's had his add-book hacked. Boy,
> North Carolina really got pounded by twisters. I hope no one on this
> list was affected, directly or indirectly.
>
> Bob in CNY

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