ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on September 18, 2006 09:15:41 PM new
For those that don't know, there was a tornado in the northwest area of the Twin Cities Saturday night. A 10 year old girl was killed and extensive damage to the area. Along with the Tornado, many areas were hit with straight lined winds. The actual path of the Tornado should have been only a mile or two from her place, so I am hoping she is OK. Hopefully she didn't have much damage.
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pixiamom
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posted on September 18, 2006 09:41:26 PM new
She's OK - thanks for asking. She had no idea the tornado would hit as close as it did so hubby was outside with his laptop very close to the time it hit. Tragic about the child - her brother was babysitting her...
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neglus
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posted on September 19, 2006 03:51:52 AM new
Thanks Stone - we live more like 5 miles from Rogers and we didn't even have a blade of grass damaged here. We couldn't believe that there had been so much damage because it was actually calm here (after a breezy day) at the time. We thought the tv stations were making a big deal over nothing like they do whenever a few snowflakes fall. A tornado siren sounded here about 45 minutes after the Rogers tornado - someone must have been sleeping at the switch earlier! Very sad about the death of the little girl - her 19 yo brother was babysitting a group of children and they held hands to get out of the house rubble but she got separated somehow and the house collapsed on top of her.
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on September 19, 2006 09:57:47 AM new
I knew that you weren't all that far away. I'm about 20 miles east of you. We had a similar situation as you did except we had no rain. A neighbor and myself sat outside watching the lightning show. I have to admit that this one was one of the more impressive that I have ever seen. Normally in thunderstorms, you see a flash of lighting about every 2-3 seconds. That storms must have had 5 flashes per second. I am having a hard time imagining how much thunder there must have been directly under the storm. The storm was far enough away where the sound wasn't making it to us.
What is really sad is this is the second time in less than a year they got hit. Only difference is last year it was straight line winds and more people were effected.
It was nice to see so many volunteers jumping in to help out. I was even turned away stating that they already had enough bodies to clean up. Did you see the news last night on the clean up? You could hardly tell there was a tornado (except for the damaged houses). Everything else was already cleaned up.
Hopefully those displaced can get their homes rebuilt in time for winter, or it could be a very long one for those families.
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irked
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posted on September 19, 2006 11:34:36 AM new
Thank goodness both Neg and stone are ok. I was in a bad tornado in 79 and I can tell ya it is worst experience of my life. Glad it didn't affect you.
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pixiamom
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posted on September 19, 2006 02:00:19 PM new
Really off-track but when I lived & worked in south Minneapolis I went in to work to help with a huge sale of weather alert radios. No one showed up for the sale which was weird - people usually lined up outside waiting for us to open. When I finally went outside I saw all the trees were GONE and a railroad car had landed in our loading dock. If I had thought to plug in one of the radios, I might have taken shelter instead of keeping my back to the glass showroom- wondering where all the people were. I think that was the tornado of 1981
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on September 20, 2006 10:53:34 AM new
Pixi,
Did you happen to work at Sears on Lake Street?
Yes, that was the 1981 tornado. It was the same day as my high school graduation party. It came within 3 blocks of my house in Roseville. I remember all of the houses that were gone and just right next door, the house would be totally intact. That was a huge tornado. Starting in Edina and ending at 694 & Rice Street in Little Canada. That's about 25 miles.
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neglus
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posted on September 20, 2006 11:47:48 AM new
OMG Stone - 1981 was your HIGH SCHOOL grad party?? You're a kid! She was working at COMB company then on Minnehaha. I was living in an apartment by the U then - watched the whole thing from my second floor window. That storm picked up fish in Lake Harriet and dropped them all over the city!
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on September 20, 2006 12:31:05 PM new
Wow, I do remember Comb. That's kind of making me feel real old too. Comb closed the doors about 20 years ago.
Fish..... Could that be why there is a large Hmong population in that area now?
Just kidding.
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neglus
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posted on September 20, 2006 04:37:39 PM new
Wow! I was just kidding when I said someone must have fallen asleep at the switch but it looks like that is what happened! National Weather Service is coming to investigate according to national news...we literally got no notice until 45 minutes AFTER the tornado hit!
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sparkz
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posted on September 20, 2006 05:56:42 PM new
Neglus...Someone WAS asleep at the wheel. Your county was only under a severe thunderstorm warning, not a tornado warning, hence no sirens until after homes were destroyed and a life was lost. I have watched the Twin Cities doppler radar loops of that storm several times, and there was definitely a tell-tell hook echo on that thunderstorm before it reached Rogers. That radar signature should have triggered an immediate tornado warning. It's a miracle that there were not more deaths and injuries amongst those who were in the path of this tornado, which is estimated as F2 on the Fujita scale. I suspect that further investigation by the NWS will place it at F3.
If Murphy's law is correct, everything East of the San Andreas Fault will slide into the Atlantic
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ST0NEC0LD613
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posted on September 21, 2006 09:26:10 AM new
I am quite puzzled at all of that. We had the TV on and at least on channel 5 (ABC) and on 11 (NBC) both were reporting a tornado warning for the area as it happened. However both did also say that this was an incredilbly fast moving storm which was making it hard to predict. Another factor was the fact it came through well after dark, so there would have been very little visual sitings, which the weather service also relies upon in addition to radar, to report tornadoes. It will be interesting what they come up with.
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