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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2020 15:01:34 GMT -5
ShrimpBrime : Jon, I was under a viaduct in my car just a couple miles away when this hit. I was under the viaduct trying to protect my car from the huge hail storm that was coming down and the massive winds. I had my cars nose up inside the viaduct at Joliet Rd. You know how they say it sounds like a freight train is coming thru?? Well they ain't kidding. But the worst part I think is the total silence just before. Not even a bird was in the sky. Daytime turned into night...…….and then I experienced some hell. Edit: The car still got hail damage as it got hit before I made it to the viaduct. But I got under there just in time before all the glass got shattered. It was a beautiful Arctic White, Maroon interior with a half vinyl top 1982 Buick Regal 2-door coupe.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 25, 2020 15:14:39 GMT -5
I remember that one. I was home alone 3rd story apartment. The wind sucked the latched and locked roof access. The sliding glass door was moving in and out like it was gonna blow out. Down stairs neighbor came and got me. There was tons of dust and debri from the library they where building in palatine. Hell of a freaky experience. Lasted all of 10 minutes maybe.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2020 16:08:20 GMT -5
Yeah, that son of a gun was mean. My ears popped when I was in the car. My hearing was screwed up for days afterwards. You could feel the static electricity in the air. The smell of electrical charge was everywhere. Going down Weber Road you could see a lot of the damage. I don't remember anyone reporting on this or seeing a picture anywhere of it......but I was driving down a road and I'll be damned, there was a car perfectly placed on a huge tree. The car was perfect, not a scratch on it. Folks were milling around this sight trying to figure out how to get this car off of the tree without destroying the car. I have never seen anything like that in my life.  |
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 25, 2020 16:40:52 GMT -5
I take it nobody was in the car up in the tree, thank goodness for that!
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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2020 17:05:27 GMT -5
No, no one was in the car. Strange things were seen all over the area. Like a perfectly clean slab where the day before stood a family's home. The slab was wiped clean and no sign a home ever stood on the site. You'd look across the street and everything was perfect, walk down to the next block and it looked like WWIII.
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Post by Bones on Feb 25, 2020 17:43:57 GMT -5
Had one come through during the mid 70's that a couple woke up in the middle of a pasture.
Their covers, pillows and all else was still there on the bed with them too. The home of course was wiped out completely but they slept through all of it.
Our "season" for the potential of tornadoes starts March 1st roughly but can happen anytime you know.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2020 18:44:59 GMT -5
I have a great respect and fear for the power of a tornado. They give no warning. Your life can be totally changed in 15 seconds. We haven't seen real bad ones in the Midwest for a long time now but there were storms where you would see 4 or 5 of the darned things bouncing off of the ground at one time. Seriously scary stuff. The incredible power they can unleash on a community is just devastating.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Feb 25, 2020 22:18:35 GMT -5
Couple of years ago we didn't even get a tornado. It was a micro blast or micro burst.
Ripped the top half of all the blue spruce right off the back fence line, took out several other trees completely.
Standing at the front door window, we where watching the down poor, had some good gusts.... But then the wind and rain went completely sideways.
Took the boys to the basement immediately. Freaked out my kids. Wife was at work and daughter was at guitar class.
My daughter wouldn't answer the phone, I went out to get here. The drive way was blocked completely, has to leave through the lawn. There where trees down all over town.
Power lines down everywhere. Traffic was being routed through town which turned bad really quick. There was flooding in the street really bad too.
Had to lock in the 4x4 to retrieve here. She heard the wind, but here and the instructor had no idea what was going on till they stepped outside.
On the way back home, Ella was in complete shock. Our entire neighborhood was unrecognizable.
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Post by zila1 on Feb 25, 2020 23:20:57 GMT -5
Wow.  |
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Post by sphincter on Feb 25, 2020 23:30:13 GMT -5
now that's some shit! never have seen a tornado myself. |
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Post by zila1 on Apr 2, 2023 21:59:51 GMT -5
I think we are going to have a bad year.
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Post by zila1 on Apr 3, 2023 10:12:23 GMT -5
ShrimpBrime: When I lived in the city my Dad and I were servicing the windows on our 2-flat when all of a sudden, the weather turned really bad. My Dad and I rushed to put the windows back in the building when a huge rainstorm hit. We didn't know what a microburst was at the time. But one of those damn things hit and blew in all of the front windows in the building and ripped out some bricks from the top parapet wall of the building and peeled back the roof. At the time the damage was at $30,000. Today that number would probably be closer to $100,000. And that building was built like a tank and that happened to it. The house I'm in now would not be able to withstand such a thing. And then to add insult to injury a lightning strike hit the apartment building directly across the street and blew a hole in the top of it. The lightning strike hit a little girl that was near the front windows inside of her apartment. That broke my heart. She survived it but was never the same after that. They moved away.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Apr 3, 2023 11:14:14 GMT -5
Luckily way up here we don't usually get 1 mile wide touch downs.
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Post by ShrimpBrime on Apr 3, 2023 13:21:49 GMT -5
Love the weather here. 10 minutes ago a big thunder 10 minutes later, we'll it's sunny out! Hope it stays north  |
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