Dodged the bullet last night

[Mobuck]

Bad storms along MO/IA state line with lots of damage. Tornado missed younger Son's house by about 5-6 miles but hit the little town of Seymour IA destroying several buildings and seriously damaging the school.
Straight line winds in excess of 100 MPH officially reported in my area.
I had a close call when gusting wind started lifting the roof off a machine shed. I noticed the problem and spent a scary hour fighting the wind while adding a couple of rows of new screws to the loose areas. A couple of unsecured goat huts got flipped over but didn't seem damaged much. When the road settles a bit more, I'm headed up to our north place to see what happened up there. Otherwise, I didn't notice much more than tree limbs down and loose items(buckets and such) scattered.

 

[Shotgungibbs]

Mobuck, glad to hear all is okay with you. We had bad storms through here last Wednesday, destroyed several barns & equipment.
Jay

 

[blume357]

I hate to advise... and I know I might have done the same thing... but when you see the winds are so hight that the roof is fixing the blow off... that could be a bad time to try and fix it. Could end up a item on the news..... glad you are okay and made it through this one.

 

[WAYNO]

Straight line winds in excess of 100 MPH officially reported in my area.
I had a close call when gusting wind started lifting the roof off a machine shed. I noticed the problem and spent a scary hour fighting the wind while adding a couple of rows of new screws to the loose areas.

Glad to hear you survived all this.

Hind sight creates a different focus.

Similarly, while I was in A&P school many years ago on the Portland Air Force Base, the local tower called the school to report they were tracking a very significant weather cell heading toward us. We were ordered to go to the flight line and hold down the airplanes. Turns out the weather cell was in fact a tornado that did some damage just across the (Columbia) river. Holding down a bunch of small airplanes during a tornado? What were they, or we, thinking?

I remember this incident very well. While we were on the flight line, there was a 707-720 directly overhead, with a ground speed of zero. He was apparently waved off of final. What a tremendous headwind he was involved with. At nearly the same time a Beech 18 successfully landed, although he had no business doing so. Seems the tower and the weather service severely underestimated this storm cell.

WAYNO.

 

[Colonialgirl]

Similarly, while I was in A&P school many years ago on the Portland Air Force Base, the local tower called the school to report they were tracking a very significant weather cell heading toward us. We were ordered to go to the flight line and hold down the airplanes. Turns out the weather cell was in fact a tornado that did some damage just across the (Columbia) river. Holding down a bunch of small airplanes during a tornado? What were they, or we, thinking?


WAYNO.

"We were ordered to go to the flight line and hold down the airplanes. ""

A Second LT issued the order??? :roll: :roll: :roll: :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :wink: :mrgreen:

 

[exavid]

Kotzebue, AK where I spent 12 years working at the OTZ FSS the about half of the station's buildings were built during WWII. Those were shingled houses with shake roofs. We usually had a gale in excess of 100Kts during the winter. Winds in gusting to 80Kts were fairly common. The buildings in question were right along the beach exposed to the full wind. We never to my memory had a building damaged. They were well built with tie straps connecting the rafters to the top plants and studs as well as nailed, ringnails, not staples holding the shakes on the roof and walls.
Of course we didn't have the problem of debris flying in the air, but the point is it doesn't take too much to reinforce buidings to stand up to a lot of wind. Screws instead of nails in strategic loactions, tie straps top and bottom on studs, no staples, things like that can keep a roof on. Not with tornadoes but in high wind.

 

[dreamer]

Mobuck my wife was driving school van with her academic team from Mercer back to Eagleville when that came through, very thankful to get all home safely!

 

[Mobuck]

I heard there was considerable damage from straight line winds between Bethany and St. Joe. Not a good day for a "high profile" vehicle.
Wonder how many bajillion kilowatts were generated by the wind farm over there? Probably none since the blades were zeroed out to prevent damage.

 

[Ruger Redhawk]

I'm glad you and your family made out well for the most part. I have a friend in OK and his son had some roof and structure damage. The main thing you're here to talk about it.

 

[Fox Mike]

WAYNO, I ain't the brightest bulb in the lamp but even I know that there is NO WAY anyone is gonna "hold down planes" Ina big blow. Tell us you ARE joking.

 

[WAYNO]

WAYNO, I ain't the brightest bulb in the lamp but even I know that there is NO WAY anyone is gonna "hold down planes" Ina big blow. Tell us you ARE joking.

Not joking even a little.

Although on an Air Base, this was a civilian school. Our flight line was composed of small General Aviation aircraft. When the Weather Service and the FAA realized there was some wind headed our way, they notified the school. The school directed us to go to the flight line and stabilize the aircraft til the wind had passed. At this point, I'm sure that nobody knew that it was turning into a tornado. Especially since we (almost) never get tornadoes.

In fact, nobody knew it was a tornado until the news reported it, after the fact.

Read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Portland%E2%80%93Vancouver_tornado

WAYNO.