Storms, storms, go away.

[INDY72]

First we go through years of drought, then here we go with instead of nice lil regular showers, we start getting hit with squall lines of massive thunderstorms dumping gullywashing, dambreaking, flooding rains, and high winds taking trees and limbs and turning them into powerline, roof, carr killing objects. Add in the tornadic possibility and it just makes you wonder, how did we piss off mother nature? Don't get me wrong it makes for great scanner traffic, but when I asked for a rain to make my matoes grow, I didn't ask for a river flowing through the field. Lindsay does such a good job moderating the forums andd all maybe I should ask him to moderate mother nature????
(Not to mention that getting to a car wreck to assist goes from fifteen minutes tops, to an hour long tree cutting ordeal. Anyone need some extra firewood for nxt winter?)

 

[nexus]

It's knocking us around pretty good over here on the coast..

My scanner is VERY ACTIVE right now... It's a good time to start listening. I included Biloxi Fire because they're going crazy with calls. Power lines down across the highway, trees that have fallen onto power lines and people's roofs. In Ocean Springs, currently the PD is working a call of a possible drowning in the gulf.

It's just crazy this morning..

I just overheard a sherriff's deputy make the remark, "I just spent 10 dollars getting my hair done."

Listen Live:
http://www.nexusradio.us/

 

[INDY72]

Well here we go again. Once again the big thunderboomers will be rolling in between 2 and 5 AM. Making it even more treacherous out there. So guys if you happen to eventually see a raft or johnboat floating down the Mississippi River with a mini antenna farm, its me, send batteries and soda lol.

 

[KB8UYC]

And just think.....its just JUNE!

We have not even reached the PEAK of the severe weather....I highly recommend that people put together their emergncy kits...........food waters etc....

and from a friend of mine......Next year is the year to watch, but we have to make it through this year

 

[INDY72]

LOL... Well in SouthWest MS, we usually don't see this Frieght Training effect of daily lines of strong to severe storms in June. Now what we worry about is later, like August thru November for the tropical booms lol, then our big seasonal storms in November thru Feburary, then our usual rainy season if we are lucky eneough to get it,... Late March thru mid May. But as I stated, maybe this is Nature's way of restoring the balance after Years of drought here in this part of the state. A couple of years ago, the drought was so bad that the one acre pond in my yard, was only 6 feet by 5 feet and four feet deep. Now its caused a small break in the shallow end of the dam. I reinforced the break with a wooden and sand bag trough so it doesn't make a wash out to the main dam.

 

[gatorhater]

I wish you well with all the rain. In my area, we are bone dry - about 8 inches below normal. I grew up in south Florida and remember the training effect, heavy rain continually falling in the same area with very little movement.

 

[INDY72]

Well if luck has it this stuff is eventually headded your way. I don't wish the flooding or tornadic crap on anyone, but since you need the rain, lol welll hopefully youll get some in this next week.

 

[GlacierClipper]

Tulsa Rain and Winds

Rain and high winds took out down many power lines and trees here in Tulsa, OK this afternoon. Tonight nearly 58,000 homes are without electricity. The winds were straight line winds and at times were over 100 mph.

 

[INDY72]

We just got toned with EOC msg:
"Jefferson county is under a Severs Thunderstorm Watch, A Flash Flood Watch, and A Flood Watch. The severe thunderstorm watch expires at 0200 hours local. High winds in excess of 70 MPH, large hail, and torrential rains in excess of 1 inch an hour can be expected with this strom system. All units, all stations are advised to be extremely weather wary tonight. Remember conditions can change with little or no warning!" So yep its on the way. We got the Mississippi River rising and flooding expected from that, all this rain that is going to fall on saturated ground, thus flash flooding, and this bunch of storms is a lovely red on the radars lol.

 

[FIRE321FIGHTER1985]

Harahan weather

we got 1" of rain wednesday morning and lots of lightening and thunder and 1.6" this morning and some lightening and thunder. Better than a couple of weeks ago. Fire and ems were not that busy.

 

[Thunderbolt]

Well here we go again. Once again the big thunderboomers will be rolling in between 2 and 5 AM. Making it even more treacherous out there. So guys if you happen to eventually see a raft or johnboat floating down the Mississippi River with a mini antenna farm, its me, send batteries and soda lol.

You really love "unique" mobile scanning situtations don't you? :wink:

 

[Thunderbolt]

LOL... Well in SouthWest MS, we usually don't see this Frieght Training effect of daily lines of strong to severe storms in June. Now what we worry about is later, like August thru November for the tropical booms lol, then our big seasonal storms in November thru Feburary, then our usual rainy season if we are lucky eneough to get it,... Late March thru mid May. But as I stated, maybe this is Nature's way of restoring the balance after Years of drought here in this part of the state. A couple of years ago, the drought was so bad that the one acre pond in my yard, was only 6 feet by 5 feet and four feet deep. Now its caused a small break in the shallow end of the dam. I reinforced the break with a wooden and sand bag trough so it doesn't make a wash out to the main dam.

Don't forget all the water you will receive, if a tropical storm/hurricane comes ashore and moves through your part of the state. The flooding is unbelievable, as are the prices for flood insurance afterwards. However, while the storm is approaching the coastline and after; the action on VHF-low band is blast to listen to. Ironically, those days are fading rapidly as everyone migrates to higher frequency bands.

73's

Ron

 

[Thunderbolt]

We just got toned with EOC msg:
"Jefferson county is under a Severs Thunderstorm Watch, A Flash Flood Watch, and A Flood Watch...

What frequency do they tone-out on?

 

[INDY72]

158.775 But migrating to 155.955. Jefferson is no longer legally on 158.775, but unlike many agencies in MS that are illegally using freqs, we are trying to migrate off of them, untill they can be iether reliscensed, or replaced with a new legal freq.

 

[mlevin]

Don't forget all the water you will receive, if a tropical storm/hurricane comes ashore and moves through your part of the state. The flooding is unbelievable, as are the prices for flood insurance afterwards. However, while the storm is approaching the coastline and after; the action on VHF-low band is blast to listen to. Ironically, those days are fading rapidly as everyone migrates to higher frequency bands.

73's

Ron

Tell me about, we had two inches of water in the basement after Hurricane Isabelle.

 

[INDY72]

Looking at that pic one wonders why the ps community has not "Enticed" the makers of equipment to develop an ARV (Amphibious Rescue Vehicle) For use in flood prone (ie- Hurricane prone) areas. It could be based on the military LAV design.

 

[Mojo]

At one time(Never mind how long ago), a fire department in the Brunswick GA area had a BIG yaller WWII GI surplus DUKW amphibious truck.

 

[Mojo]

At one time(Never mind how long ago), a fire department in the Brunswick GA area had a BIG yaller WWII GI surplus DUKW amphibious truck.

 

[mlevin]

One problem milf, Baltimore isn't considered a hurricane prone area. Which is why we had power out for a week. I was in the dark and didn't realize the magnitude of what we we where going through (even with the scanner) until I saw all the pics on TV after the fact. FEMA was kind enough to cover all the damages and even the food in the fridge.