last night's storms

WE made it ok with just some barn roof damage. I woulda been ok but we started tearing off a section of barn roof to install a small PVT solar . I had the blue plastic down and , at last accounting, its somewhere down in MAryland. We live in a dangerous "cleft" in the piedmont. The line squalls come racing across the hills and then sneak thrpugh the clefts around Adams county and we get these brutish storms. Well, while we didnt have any tornadoes like in NC, we did have some line squalls that mwaasured out at 80 mph on my wind gage.

Ive been wondering about the BEar and squinney and John Boy and ragman.

North Carolina got really trashed in these storms. NOW, there is some "defunding talk" about cutting budgets for theNAt QWeather Service and its emergency warning systems. They use an infra red satellite picture that gets built on top of the doppler shots and they can pick out tornadoes just starting. I understand that these warnings came in quite handy down there.

HEY BEEAAR!! where the **** are ya?

I pinged bear and squinney on FB. Bear's been sighted but no signs of squinney yet.

John of Virginia is all right as well. Think he was on the Weather or Not thread, but I can't be certain.

I hope that Engineer and his family made it to NYC safely yesterday. They were travelling from near Wilmington, N.C.

all the quinneys are okay and thanks for asking.

was it real bad down your way bear? ( I refuse to call you the blueveinedthrobber).

I only saw some shots that people were sending in to the weather channel. I shop routinely at Tractor SUpply so when I saw that shot where the store manager gathered up all the customers and had them at the other end of the store, that was real smart.
All tractor supplies have these big concrete bays in their rears and these make great storm cellars.

It was pretty rough. three people killed in a trailer park (of course) off Capital blvd and a lot of damage in South Raleigh and going North towards Wake Forest. An entire Lowes was leveled in Sanford.

I was in Smithfield doing sound for a festival pageant at the local high school there and we got huge windshield smashing hail , lost power and high winds... but we went into the common room and were surrounded by concrete and cinder block so a-okay.

A friend of mine lost his house but no injuries. Tomorrow after I get up I'll contact musicians and djs, and see if we can do a fund raiser.

That's a relief to hear, Bear*.
I saw that Raleigh was one of the badly affect areas on the news & thought of you & squinney, plus other A2K "southerners" whose exact where-abouts I'm too sure about..
Very glad to hear that everyone appears to be OK.

(*I find it hard to call you blueveinedthrobber, too.)

Has the LionTamer checked in today?

anyone in touch with Seed recently? he's also in the greater Raleigh area

Here's hoping all our friends are okay.

Yes. He posted here:

http://able2know.org/topic/166046-14#post-4576826


but not about the storm.

Chapel Hill did okay

Whew! So relieved everyone is OK.

BBB

Funny...not funny ha ha.. I contacted a couple of venue owners to see if they would be willing to host fund raisers and no response. Usually when a tragedy hits somewhere else people are lining up. I thought it would be nice to do a hometown fundraiser.

Having said that, people are contributing to various local help agencies.

sometimes we have to wait a bit until the rubble is cleaned up beforeyou do rock n roll fund raisers. We had a bad flood in 1996 in this area and the "country music"fund raisers didnt happen until maybe 6 months afterwards. People were all stunned for a few weeks and months immediatley after.
MAybe thats something you can do around July when everyones starting to get their **** back together.

We were hardly grazed by the storms and there are barns with roofs torn off and trees on top of cars and damage from flooding in small developments with crick-side houses.(Cricks turned into deep rivers for about 8 hours and the insides of some of these Mickey Mansions look like they were hosed out with a mud pump).
I imagine its really bad down in your area

It's rough. The most heartbreaking part is that the three killed were young siblings.

I'm going to buy some canned goods and staple stuff today to take to the Food bank. Best I can do currently.