Tornado Season just begun in Lawrence. It started off by going right down 13th Street next to my house. E and I are okay, and our house is okay, but some stuff outside our house is definitely NOT okay. Pictures to come as soon as the power comes back on and I can charge my camera.
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Tornado Season
Posted by ThinMan on Sunday, March 12 2006 at 10:12 AMOfficial Business
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Pictures of our former storage shed can be found here. The wind seems to have picked it up and thrown it east about 30 feet where it landed upside-down and shattered on top of our neighbor's fence. Also, a large tree "limb" (the top third or so of the tree, really) snapped off and blew eastward, t
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Mr. Guapo said:
Photos on LJ World web site. My favorite: The one captioned "Pedestrian trapped beneath fallen crosswalk sign." Taking photos of a helpless victim? Evil media!
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(posting from my computer at work) We don't have power yet, either. Luckily we have a gas stove, but the temperature drop kinda sucks (lows were near freezing last night). I'll try and post a picture or two of the remains of our utility shed, which our neighbors say they saw get a direct hit from a
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Slug to post photos of damage around our house and south park as soon as we have power at home, which isn't yet.Members' Blogs
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Jeez.
Posted by: Mr. Guapo | March 12, 2006 9:29 PM
Slug to post photos of damage around our house and south park as soon as we have power at home, which isn't yet.
Posted by: plantnerd | March 13, 2006 9:35 AM
(posting from my computer at work)
We don't have power yet, either. Luckily we have a gas stove, but the temperature drop kinda sucks (lows were near freezing last night). I'll try and post a picture or two of the remains of our utility shed, which our neighbors say they saw get a direct hit from a small funnel. Anyone need some kindling?
Campus is closed today and some of the pictures of roof damage are pretty bad. Plus the glass back wall of Hoch (now "Budig") all blew out, so I gather there's a lot of broken glass and roofing stuff all over campus.
The good news: I'm the proud owner of a brand new crowbar and a really big mallet.
Posted by: Thinman | March 13, 2006 11:26 AM
Photos on LJ World web site. My favorite: The one captioned "Pedestrian trapped beneath fallen crosswalk sign." Taking photos of a helpless victim? Evil media!
Posted by: Mr. Guapo | March 13, 2006 12:59 PM
Pictures of our former storage shed can be found here. The wind seems to have picked it up and thrown it east about 30 feet where it landed upside-down and shattered on top of our neighbor's fence. Also, a large tree "limb" (the top third or so of the tree, really) snapped off and blew eastward, taking the cable line with it. If you look closely you can see the black line of it strung from the house over to the wreckage and then off to the right. The cable line used to be strung up alongside the power line.
I'm convinced that the damage in town was, all things considered, pretty light, and would have been much worse if it had happened later in the spring after the trees were full of air-catching leaves. Instead, all the trees were bare, so most of the tree damage was to evergreens (which weren't bare) and to trees that were rotten inside. Lots of jagged stumps around town with black cores. A few healthy trees were split or snapped, but not very many.
Right now, it sucks to be an architecture student. All the architecture studios in Marvin were totally destroyed by flying debris from the Art & Design building next door, and I don't think anyone's work that was in there was salvagable.
We got off pretty lightly too. We were in the middle of the worst corridor of wind damage, so we're really glad our house wasn't hurt.
Posted by: Thinman | March 14, 2006 7:03 PM