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JohnCarterofMars
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 Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 9:28 am Post subject: Severe Weather Strikes Huntsville, Alabama |
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Heya folx, just wanted to pass the word that we have had some severe thunderstorms with winds from 30 miles per hour to 100 miles per hour along with torrential rain and flash flooding.
| Quote: | From Local News Channel 19:
As of 9:45 a.m. NewsChannel-19 rain gauges showed 5 inches of rain. Those totals continue to rise and the conditions continue to change. |
My uncle's own home is now sitting in 2 feet of water (located towards the downtown area of Huntsville). I haven't heard from Robert E, but his home is located on the top of a hill. His family should be fine...
My wife and I live in a 2nd floor apartment and the drainage seems to be working fine.
A word of advice to anyone who may experience this type of weather, i.e., Flash Flooding, DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS! There has already been a fatality in a county near ours. The person tried to cross a bridge that was under water and their vehicle was washed into the creek, which of course now is a river, where it sank, drowning the driver.
Take care and I will keep you updated as I hear more...
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 9:32 am Post subject: |
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glad to hear you are doing fine JCOM.
now where is Rob?
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JohnCarterofMars
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 9:34 am Post subject: |
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He is on the north side of Huntsville in a subdivision on the side of Chapman Mountain. Well, above any possible flood levels... 
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 9:54 am Post subject: |
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Yeah. My parents got hit by this storm a couple of days ago.
Everyone I know was ok, though. 
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 10:32 am Post subject: |
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yeah it passed right over dallas where i live and fortworth were shocky lives...just really nasty clouds and we all thought it was going to storm but didn't...oh well...my folks in jackson got hit by some pretty hard rain though.
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:21 am Post subject: |
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The weather here is great !! 80degF
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Sorry to here about the damage.
Stay on the dry side
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Yes so far this season has been odd for us DFWers. The Thunderstorms have been scarce and usually pass over us before dropping the rain. So far no Tornandos, just one that formed up but didn't touch down. We know what you are going through JCOM and God bless you guys hope everything turns out ok. Especially better then the people north of us. I heard one tornando that was 200 mph  and went on a 400 mile destruction path through Arkansas and Tennessee.
Bama is having a wierd weather year eh JCOM. First an earthquake and the usuall flooding and tornandos. What next a hurricane for the trifecta.  |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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Lots of rain = lots of shrooms So it anit soo bad....
| Quote: | | There has already been a fatality in a county near ours. The person tried to cross a bridge that was under water and their vehicle was washed into the creek, which of course now is a river, where it sank, drowning the driver |
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Thats just natures way of killin off the stuipd... |
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hey man, be safe. If you encounter a tornado the size of 4 football fields...RUN!
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Didn't Hurricane Opal stay intact all the way from the Gulf Coast to Chattanooga once? Basically going over Alabama the whole way.
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Been watching the NWS Radar sites this morning. Very colorful and very nasty. Head for the basement, er attic, uh the hills!!!
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| Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Verman wrote: | | Been watching the NWS Radar sites this morning. Very colorful and very nasty. Head for the basement, er attic, uh the hills!!! |
Head for Rob's house
Seriously, glad to hear everyone we know over there is safe.
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| Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 9:44 am Post subject: |
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i got a nice piece of that as well, i was at work and the rain stopped, sun came out, so i was like "ok good time to go and get the water coolers" so i take a golf cart and head out to pick them up... then the sky turned yellow, the clouds turned around and the storm came back, in a matter of less than 3 minutes.... some REALLY close lightning scared the crap out of me so i tunred around and started to head back, and it just started POURING... the rain was comign sideways, from the waist down was soaked becasue i was onyl wearing my waterproof jacket, glad i had that... flooding is no fun at all, hurricane floyd did some major flooding in my area, and my family was moving and had a lot of boxes in my grandmas basement, which got 4' of water in it... we were able to get most of it up and out of it but that was some wet boxing... a few towns cloer to rivers and such had whole buildings under water, eek that was bad... hope alls well down in AL
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