RE: Stormy Weather
March 2, 2012 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2012 at 1:36 pm by orogenicman.)
(March 2, 2012 at 12:28 pm)Rhythm Wrote: How's it looking for you up there? The weather has actually become calmer here (as of yet).
Yeah, right now it's the (rainy) calm before the real storm. I just watched the report at the Weather Channel. The big storms are starting to form over Missouri right now and are expected to moved into Kentucky this afternoon and simply explode. I haven't seen a situation like this for our area since the tornadic ourbreak of 1974. That storm produced tornadoes in 13 states and killed hundreds of people. It was one of the worst outbreaks in U.S. history. It killed 5 people here (including three of my relatives), and over 50 throughout the state. It destroyed 1,000 homes here along with the State fairgrounds, and our largest old growth forest in Cherokee Park. It took three years to clear all the fallen trees and replant the park. We had trees in the park that were saplings when Daniel Boone was alive. And it was all destroyed in just a few minutes. It was an F4 tornado, with winds over 200 mph, and was almost a mile wide. They were actually measured at the airport where it first struck, that is, before it broke the wind gauge. It also produced the lowest barometric pressure in Kentucky history.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
