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Peter B-storms near you? - DP - 03-23-2022
Looks like some tornadoes in the New Orleans area...
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - hal - 03-23-2022
here's some rather terrifying video of a huge tornado cutting through a residential area.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1506447111658868753
yikes!
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - graylocks - 03-23-2022
hal wrote:
here's some rather terrifying video of a huge tornado cutting through a residential area.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1506447111658868753
yikes!
Those fools should have been taking shelter not shooting video. Could easily have been Darwin contenders.
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - Speedy - 03-23-2022
graylocks wrote:
[quote=hal]
here's some rather terrifying video of a huge tornado cutting through a residential area.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1506447111658868753
yikes!
Those fools should have been taking shelter not shooting video. Could easily have been Darwin contenders.
True if there was a second tornado but if they were to the southwest of the twister they would be fine.
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - PeterB - 03-23-2022
Yes, I got very lucky ... my area, incredibly, saw barely anything ... just a bit of wind and some very light rain (!) ...
Other areas, such as Arabi, Chalmette, St. Bernard, not so lucky. I don't remember where flareslow lives, but I think he and/or his kids might have been in the path of these.
Edit: at least one death so far, no firm count on injuries, many homes flattened, power out for thousands. It was scary last night, emergency alerts continuously going off.
More here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/22/new-orleans-tornado-storms-south/
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - flareslow - 03-23-2022
Thanks for the concern Peter - we're all ok. The tornado that hit the Northshore was different than the one that hit Arabi. It passed within about 2 miles of our house, but we didn't see or hear it. It's path was mostly over pine forests and damage that I saw this morning was limited to trees down across highways. We didn't lose power or cell service (our internet). Nasty storms though!
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - PeterB - 03-23-2022
flareslow wrote:
Thanks for the concern Peter - we're all ok. The tornado that hit the Northshore was different than the one that hit Arabi. It passed within about 2 miles of our house, but we didn't see or hear it. It's path was mostly over pine forests and damage that I saw this morning was limited to trees down across highways. We didn't lose power or cell service (our internet). Nasty storms though!
Yes, I didn't remember where you all were ... I think we're the only two MRF'ers in New Orleans, but not 100% sure.
Pretty terrible, the images and videos that are surfacing of the damage.
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - flareslow - 03-23-2022
I've lived in on the Northshore for a total of about 25 years over the last 41years and this is the first tornado I can recall that has hit a NOLA populated area and inflicted major damage, excluding any that were associated with hurricanes.
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - Filliam H. Muffman - 03-23-2022
Glad to hear all our friends in the area safe. Did the tornado suck Freya's icon off the user map?
Re: Peter B-storms near you? - PeterB - 03-23-2022
flareslow wrote:
I've lived in on the Northshore for a total of about 25 years over the last 41years and this is the first tornado I can recall that has hit a NOLA populated area and inflicted major damage, excluding any that were associated with hurricanes.
Actually we got them back in 2008 I believe ... they hit areas of Uptown not too far from me, including one that went straight down Carrollton and St. Charles Aves, which are mostly high-value homes and old multimillion dollar mansions... the tornadoes seemed to use the major thoroughfares as an alley down which to travel. I heard of a couple people whose homes were flattened by those. But I think you're right that they were associated with a hurricane, it might have been Gustav?