Just had a nice near-tornadic event

"Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker) 05/08/2014 at 17:01 • Filed to: None

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Coworker got a weather alert on his phone, so I pulled up the local weather on my computer. Alert was, "Strong circulation spotted near Northwest Highway and the Tollway", which, oddly enough, is exactly the intersection at which my office is located. So that was a fun 15 minutes spent in the stairwell.

505Turbeaux > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:03

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damn man glad you are ok! I had one creep up on me once in the midwest when I was camping with a bunch of hippies. Dat green sky...

Brian Silvestro > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:04

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It's entertaining to listen to people talk about events that don't happen where you live.

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:09

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See? Florida wins for something! All we get are hurricanes, which we an track for weeks!

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Brian Silvestro 05/08/2014 at 17:16

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I had actually just been looking at a friend's instagram of how nice it was outside in DC.

Brian Silvestro > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:17

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It's 70 degrees and sunny with absolutely no wind or humidity or anything here in Albany right now.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > 505Turbeaux 05/08/2014 at 17:18

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It's weirdly routine down here. Everyone who has lived in the area for any amount of time has no doubt experienced the "there's a tornado in the area" thing several times, but it's rare that you actually wind up with tornadic activity right where you are. It's generally 10 or 15 miles away. Much different experience when you're seeking shelter out of routine than when you're seeking because shit might get real.

jariten1781 > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:19

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There's my mom's car after her elementary school got blasted last year. Tornadoes are bitches.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > jariten1781 05/08/2014 at 17:21

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Kinja is kinja'ing your picture, but I can imagine it was torn up.

Tornadoes are even weirder because their paths of destruction can be so specific and narrow. You hear about the big mile-wide ones that level entire city blocks, but most of the time they're smaller entities that tear random, weird lines through any given area. Still do just as much destruction, but 100 yards can make the difference between being shredded to pieces and completely unscathed.

505Turbeaux > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:21

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oh man no doubt. We were in the woods and jumped in the biggest RV there (not that that would have done a damn thing). The tornado split and went around us but I thought I was going to die for real

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > jariten1781 05/08/2014 at 17:22

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Kinja finally showed that picture and holy shit! Where was that?

jariten1781 > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:23

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Should be un-kinjaized. I grew up in the corridor between Norman and OKC. We got F-3 to F-5s every couple years. Just a part of life if you want to live there which my parents still do. All the kids packed ship and left as we each turned 18.

jariten1781 > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:24

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Briarwood Elementary in Moore, OK.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > jariten1781 05/08/2014 at 17:26

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Thought that might be the case. Those are the kinds of storms that make it a little harder to be jaded when you're told to get in the stairwells.

That really is the real thick of it, though. Dallas' activity is sporadic if not consistent and sometimes dangerous, but it seems every event up there has catastrophic potential.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > 505Turbeaux 05/08/2014 at 17:28

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It's weird/fucking frightening when something of that kind of life-ending power is within theoretical viewing distance. have to imagine even moreseo when an RV is your safest bet for shelter.

505Turbeaux > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/08/2014 at 17:31

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well, that and the stench of 25 hippies in there, that doesnt make me think I am going to (want to) live :)