Tdog said:
Podunk,
Glad you are OK. I watched the system move by - - lots of yellows & reds on the weather radar just north of here, but only light rain here. Very few branches down. Scarry stuff.
Thanks for the kind words. It's really weird, the weather and the nuances of hurricane's and tornado's. Hurricanes can be tracked, predicted and studied. Some people will say we can't "track" a hurricane...hogwash. When a rotating mass the size of Texas is coming toward the beach, we may not be able to predict exactly where the eye will pass over until the last few hours (hey, at least there's a few hours). You do know however that you will be getting pummeled by high winds until it passes, even though the eye misses you.
Tornado's on the other hand release from thunderstorms. It's raining and a little windy one minute, the next, your house is gone...or worse, a school full of kids. The warning you get is the equivalent to having a radar detector in your car...by the time you get a warning, it's too late, you're had! There's no tracking, it goes north, then south, then west, or east then comes back for more. It decides it'll take my home, but jump a mile, then come back down and take out a trailer park (aka tornado magnet). They are brutal.
The only real warning we get preceding a Tornado is the hail and that's not guaranteed (it doesn't ALWAYS hail before one settles in). However, if you are in the south and a bad storm is upon you, then you see chunks of ice falling from the sky in mid-summer...find a culvert to hide in...you are in for one **** of a ride.
Anyhow, my .02 worth...so much for leaving Florida to get out of the hurricane path!
Podunk
