Snowstorms and tornados and earthquakes, oh my!
8Everyone ok?
https://weather.com/news/news/2020-04-12-maine-power-outages-wind-snowstorm-outages
https://weather.com/storms/severe/video/tornado-in-monroe-la-as-severe-weather-sweeps-through-south
https://weather.com/news/video/65-magnitude-earthquake-triggers-avalanches-in-idaho
As if we didn’t have enough to deal with already.
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Snow? What snow? (Picture taken 4/11/20)
@lordbowen ok, where the heck is that? UP?
@ybmuG Near Fairbanks, AK.
@lordbowen uh oh, how close is that to Anchorage? They might overtake Rochester on the snowfall list.
@ybmuG About 350 miles N/NE of Anchorage.
@lordbowen phew - our reign might be safe!
@lordbowen @ybmuG Rochester as in NY or MN? I went to U of R and distinctly remember getting rides home at thanksgiving on the closed while we were on it NY throughway. At school we once spent all night building a 60 or so foot long, 2 story high dragon. Even in the snow belt it took all the snow on the dorm quad and the frat quad to build it.
@Kidsandliz @lordbowen NY. There’s a guy around the corner from us that builds some pretty impressive sculptures in his front lawn every year, including coloring them, though not quite to that scale. Maybe 6-8’ tall.
@lordbowen @ybmuG Well to be fair we had about 20 people working on it with about 1/2 of them filling big trash bags with snow and bringing them to where we were building the thing.
It feels strangely like someone combined The Last Ship and 2012 into a movie, except it’s real. The only things missing now are some asteroids, comets and a sharknado!
KuoH
@kuoh And four horses with riders.
@mehcuda67
KuoH
so far so good here in central AL
I had to shovel some slush, but I got to use my clamp on light that lives on my snow shovel, so there’s that
@guyfromhawthorn
@macromeh That’s always a classic, and one that’s sorely needed these days. It always does make me feel better when a Meh purchase that I wasn’t entirely convinced of initially turns out to actually be helpful!
Why am I reminded of the Ten Commandments movie? How many plagues do we have left to go through?
@phendrick (not so) funny you say that…
Seems the locusts made it.
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2975544001
Just a little rain in the STL metro.
/giphy nothing to see here
Ooohhh Kim’s Convenience
@tinamarie1974 is that Graham Greene?
@tinamarie1974 never mind - just looked it up. Looks more like him in this clip on my phone
While the state was littered with tornadoes, locally we just had heavy rain and high winds and the rest missed us.
Good luck to the folks in the “next” states to have to deal with it. Sorry that some of you will have to go through this during the night.