so waht ya doin today?

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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Thanks, guys, for the Buffalo Rifle compliments.

There are some previous-owner character marks, but that's okay. There is a long story about the butt stock that may get told at some other time. Its favorite load is the 405-grain Lyman 457193 and 15.7-grains of Unique.
 
CZ93X62

CZ93X62

Official forum enigma
Lots of doctoring this week--today through Thursday. No issues, just "oil changes and routine maintenance". Now that I have fully shaken that flu &^%$ from a couple weeks back, I am almost worth being around again. Almost. Nasty late-Spring flu was YUCKY.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Currently "enjoying" a tornado watch. :oops:

Fun, fun, fun.
Right now the only strong storms on radar are north of us by 50-70 miles,
moving past St. Jo.
They can stay there.

Bill
 
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Intheshop

Banned
Pistolero,been sayin prayers for all you out in that part of the country. Like said earlier,we had the everyday rain last year. Then with the ground oversaturated,any,what should've been a small storm..... and trees would just start coming down. Stay safe bud.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Thanks. The weather is going to do what it is going to do. All you can do
is hunker down, or get out of the way.

So far, in almost 40 years of living in KC area, have never had a tornado within 15-20 miles of
where I am. Hoping to hold on to that pattern. But we spin the wheel of fortune
every day in the spring out here.
 
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JWFilips

JWFilips

Well-Known Member
The Wife and I spent the last hour and a half sitting in the basement! We had Tornado warnings ( Very strange for us but this time it happened!)
About a month ago the next town over from us got hit! This time it looked like our turn...but the cyclonic winds pasted us with just major hail damage and flooding ( again something strange for us) Ping pong ball hail
Sure glad it is over now!
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
Holy KEEEERAP! One mile tornado on the ground about 3 miles from my country place..
I bailed out about 20 minutes ago and headed east to our in town house.
The local weather/traffic helo guy has eyes on, TV is showing it. Blowing up power transformers
now in Linnwood,KS heading towards the KCK NASCAR racetrack.
Looks like it is missing the little town I am 1.8 miles south of by a mile or two, west and
north, moving NE at 35.

NOT fun, but it looks like we and our houses are out of the path of this one.

This one is headed towards a more populated area, near the Cabela's store in KC Kansas.

I was outside and very dark sky N and W of me ---- then --
I heard it rumbling...."like a freight train" from probably 4 or 5 miles away, sounded like
continuous distant thunder, but continuous for 10 minutes. Just odd, that it kept rumbling
continuously, the most continous 'thunder' I have ever heard. Just seemed like a severe
thunderstorm, but I was struck by the continuous low rumbling. The rumbling never
stopped while I was there, maybe 20 minutes.

Then the sirens and phone went off.

Looks like we are OK.

They are now saying that there are multiple tornados in the mix, very close to each
other.
I predict that they will be shutting down KC International Airport any time soon, likely have
already sent the arrivals away.

OK, while I was typing, the TV showed them moving passengers into the underground
tunnels at MCI (Kansas City International Airport). Heading pretty much towards it, if
it stays on the ground that long.

Started south of Lawrence, KS. Home of University of KS.

Bill
 
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Pistolero

Pistolero

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This is, by FAR the closest I have been to one, and I hope it stays the closest I ever come.

It is heading towards a good friend's home, he lives south and east of MCI. Crossed the Missouri
River, went east of Cabelas and the NASCAR track. Now heading into more populated
areas of KCMO northern suburbs.

Well clear of us now, moving well away. Apparently staying on the ground and not breaking
up, although they have reported multiple individual tornadoes close to each other, buried
inside the dense rain shaft, hard to see.

No news folks on the ground behind it yet to see the damage. Radar was showing 150-160 MPH,
so serious but not one of the 275 mph meat grinders. Plenty bad enough, but the force applied
to buildings is proportional to the square of the wind speed. So 150 is four times the force of
75 mph, and 275 mph is more than triple the force of 150 mph winds, about 13 times the force of
75 mph winds.

Bill
 
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Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Had several between 3/4 and 3 miles of my house nw of Fort Worth, but they were all very small, like 20-30' on the ground small. Enough to wipe out a mobile home or suck off a roof from a direct hit, but not massive, widespread destruction. We lived about a mile from a busy railway and when the wind blew just right the horn at crossings was the only way to tell it wasn't a distant twister.
 
Brad

Brad

Benevolent Overlord and site owner
Staff member
Along the southern tire of Nebraska counties they are reporting baseball sized hail. That will put a major hurt on anything it hits.

Bill, stay safe down there. We are dryish right now but a few miles south they are calling for help in sandbagging along an area that flooded this spring.
 
Pistolero

Pistolero

Well-Known Member
OK looks like the tornado has broken up. Still have conditions for the possible
formation of more of them. Closest I have been, and hope it is a one-off event for me.
:oops:

Bill
 
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Ian

Ian

Notorious member
Yeah Bill, good thing you don't live in Kansas or this could be real regular ;)

I hear SE colorado is nice this time of year....
 
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