Weather, Weather Everywhere
Apr. 27th, 2011 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxIt's been a pretty atrocious weather day. Apparently it was really bad last night and I slept through it (seems to have bypassed my little enclave because even fading rose blossoms weren't out of place in my yard. I honestly hadn't known it was a bad weather night until I turned on the TV.) It was clearly bad elsewhere -- and fairly close -- though as it took me an hour to drive the (usually) 7 miles to work (I swear they sent me on a detour through some circuitous route that I could not retrace for the life of me. W normal 15 minute ride became an hour + commute). Then tornado warnings were so bad this afternoon that they sent us home early from work.
The TV has been completely taken over by weather radar (and will be for the rest of the evening). My parents are over because their cable was knocked out in last night's storm and Charter hasn't repaired it yet (they were saying that last night's storm had 250,000 people without power in the area, so I'm thinking cable reception is pretty far down the list of necessities), so I have company watching the radar on tv.
Heard the tornado sirens about an hour ago.
It looks pretty bad on the radar actually. It hit about a block from the University of Alabama and did a lot of damage to the mall and shopping center, but my nephew, who is in school there, texted sis and he's fine. From the news, it look like it killed the Krispy Kreme though.
North of us seems pretty bad too. From the news, it sounds like there have been several fatalities (ETA: Damn. They just came on saying 25 dead. Now I feel bad about joking about the Krispy Kreme in Tuscaloosa, although the fatalaties don't seem to have been in Tuscaloosa. ETA II Death toll is now above 120. My God.).
I'm somewhat lucky in that the mountains (or foothills, whatev) surrounding my area usually seem to split the storms so that they usually vere south or north of us. And most have gone south or north of us. The current one is pretty close, as in the upper range of its possible path ends a few blocks from here, but it looks like it's also staying south and once this line of storms crosses it'll be (mostly) finished in this area.
Ready for this system to be over.
The TV has been completely taken over by weather radar (and will be for the rest of the evening). My parents are over because their cable was knocked out in last night's storm and Charter hasn't repaired it yet (they were saying that last night's storm had 250,000 people without power in the area, so I'm thinking cable reception is pretty far down the list of necessities), so I have company watching the radar on tv.
Heard the tornado sirens about an hour ago.
It looks pretty bad on the radar actually. It hit about a block from the University of Alabama and did a lot of damage to the mall and shopping center, but my nephew, who is in school there, texted sis and he's fine. From the news, it look like it killed the Krispy Kreme though.
North of us seems pretty bad too. From the news, it sounds like there have been several fatalities (ETA: Damn. They just came on saying 25 dead. Now I feel bad about joking about the Krispy Kreme in Tuscaloosa, although the fatalaties don't seem to have been in Tuscaloosa. ETA II Death toll is now above 120. My God.).
I'm somewhat lucky in that the mountains (or foothills, whatev) surrounding my area usually seem to split the storms so that they usually vere south or north of us. And most have gone south or north of us. The current one is pretty close, as in the upper range of its possible path ends a few blocks from here, but it looks like it's also staying south and once this line of storms crosses it'll be (mostly) finished in this area.
Ready for this system to be over.
