How is the MIDWEST MFK'ers making out with wicked weather?

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I was just looking at weather.com and it shows a pretty good size storm coming over my way. We are set to get t-storms around noon time and they are going to get severe around 3pm I think. I normally love thunderstorms, like I am the guy sitting on the front porch drinking a beer watching the storms come in. I stay for a week on Cape Cod every summer and a few years back we have a mean storm come right over Buzzards Bay that was incredible to watch. But damn last night there must have been serious storms, because a few cracks of thunder hit so hard last night it scarred the crap out of me while I was sleeping. I was so disoriented when it cracked I had no idea what was going on. It was raining like someone had put a fire hose directly on my window.

I was watching the Celtics game last night and they interrupted the game for a weather alert, some of the towns around me (Wheaton, IL) had some flood warnings that are lasting until next Wednesday! Thats crazy, we had the whole package, flood, flash flood, tornado all last night. Looked like we got just a ton of rain last night and some good thunder boomers. Hopefully this afternoon the storms are not to bad, although I would not mind if we lost power here at the office!

I have never been through a tornado before...we dont have that crap in New England...I still really am not even sure what to do, I know if the siren goes off it is serious and I need to seek shelter. I have also heard I should open the window to equalize the pressure so they dont blow out. Last summer we had one time at the office when things got serious and we all had to go sit in the lunch room. But when the worst you are used to is feet and feet of snow and some ice a spinning tunnel of destruction is a little intimidating...I guess to each their own though, people out here might get nervous with some of the winter storms we get in NE and they are more used to tornadoes and serious storms.

Anyone got any good advice for me? My apartment does not have a basement, I live in a half sunken first floor, so like the ground is only about a foot below my window...my girl friend said I would go in the bathroom and try and cover myself with a mattress if the sirens go off...is this right? Or do I just bend over, kiss my @$$ good bye and hope for the best!
 
JayK1320;1880185; said:
I was just looking at weather.com and it shows a pretty good size storm coming over my way. We are set to get t-storms around noon time and they are going to get severe around 3pm I think. I normally love thunderstorms, like I am the guy sitting on the front porch drinking a beer watching the storms come in. I stay for a week on Cape Cod every summer and a few years back we have a mean storm come right over Buzzards Bay that was incredible to watch. But damn last night there must have been serious storms, because a few cracks of thunder hit so hard last night it scarred the crap out of me while I was sleeping. I was so disoriented when it cracked I had no idea what was going on. It was raining like someone had put a fire hose directly on my window.

I was watching the Celtics game last night and they interrupted the game for a weather alert, some of the towns around me (Wheaton, IL) had some flood warnings that are lasting until next Wednesday! Thats crazy, we had the whole package, flood, flash flood, tornado all last night. Looked like we got just a ton of rain last night and some good thunder boomers. Hopefully this afternoon the storms are not to bad, although I would not mind if we lost power here at the office!

I have never been through a tornado before...we dont have that crap in New England...I still really am not even sure what to do, I know if the siren goes off it is serious and I need to seek shelter. I have also heard I should open the window to equalize the pressure so they dont blow out. Last summer we had one time at the office when things got serious and we all had to go sit in the lunch room. But when the worst you are used to is feet and feet of snow and some ice a spinning tunnel of destruction is a little intimidating...I guess to each their own though, people out here might get nervous with some of the winter storms we get in NE and they are more used to tornadoes and serious storms.

Anyone got any good advice for me? My apartment does not have a basement, I live in a half sunken first floor, so like the ground is only about a foot below my window...my girl friend said I would go in the bathroom and try and cover myself with a mattress if the sirens go off...is this right? Or do I just bend over, kiss my @$$ good bye and hope for the best!
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Everyone who knows the routine of what to do and what not to do please help... we need to hear from you for all those unsure .. i would like to know too just in case...
 
Red Devil;1880202; said:
Everyone who knows the routine of what to do and what not to do please help... we need to hear from you for all those unsure .. i would like to know too just in case...
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That would be greatly appreciated! I have only lived here a year and a half, some of this severe weather still make me a little nervous. Give me many feet of snow and days of ice and I am good, -40 degrees and no power and I will make it with out even getting nervous haha...funnels of destruction and softball hail...yeah not so cool

I think I would be good if I never saw a real tornado, not because it wouldn't be cool, but because I would seriously have no clue what to do at all...
 
JayK1320;1880252; said:
That would be greatly appreciated! I have only lived here a year and a half, some of this severe weather still make me a little nervous. Give me many feet of snow and days of ice and I am good, -40 degrees and no power and I will make it with out even getting nervous haha...funnels of destruction and softball hail...yeah not so cool

I think I would be good if I never saw a real tornado, not because it wouldn't be cool, but because I would seriously have no clue what to do at all...
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i agree with you..snow and ice and cold can never compare to the stress that goes with tornado activity... it pops and rears its ugly head randomly.. at least we know when heavy snow is coming..you bunker down and get comfortable.. but this would be sheer torture to me.. i hope you get lots of advice and all will be okay.
 
rained all day and night yesterday!! more tornados and heavy rain! theinsville wi, is pretty much under water. my dad had to help put sand bags around the dealership he works at. 8 inches of water in the body shop. my other friend who lives 200 yards from the river has water up to his house just about, and he is on a hill!!!!! my other friend has 3 feet of water in her basement. good thing shes on a hill. her neighbors who werent have 3+ft of water on their first floors of their homes!!!! i heard hwy 94 headed west to madison is shut down in parts. i also think that hwy 43 south is shut down by mukwanago between hwy 83 and hwy 164.

my friend in cedar rapids is out side of that flood plan. her sister works at mercy hospital and she says they had to sand bag around it. my friend works at st lukes i believe and they have been having power go on and off. today they they are sand bagging that i think.

crazy weather this spring. its no just the spring though. think of all the crazy snow we got this last winter!!!!!!
 
phantoms;1880307; said:
rained all day and night yesterday!! more tornados and heavy rain! theinsville wi, is pretty much under water. my dad had to help put sand bags around the dealership he works at. 8 inches of water in the body shop. my other friend who lives 200 yards from the river has water up to his house just about, and he is on a hill!!!!! my other friend has 3 feet of water in her basement. good thing shes on a hill. her neighbors who werent have 3+ft of water on their first floors of their homes!!!! i heard hwy 94 headed west to madison is shut down in parts. i also think that hwy 43 south is shut down by mukwanago between hwy 83 and hwy 164.

my friend in cedar rapids is out side of that flood plan. her sister works at mercy hospital and she says they had to sand bag around it. my friend works at st lukes i believe and they have been having power go on and off. today they they are sand bagging that i think.

crazy weather this spring. its no just the spring though. think of all the crazy snow we got this last winter!!!!!!
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You sound like your pretty much in the middle of it all.. and all around you sounds horrid..what a advice would you give to Jay if the tornado warning came on... would going in a bathtub and placing a mattress over you be the thing to do?
 
the weather everywhere seems weird lately. here in mass, its been kind of chilly for the late spring/early summer. we can still wear pants and maybe even a longsleeve shirt. yesterday ended a random heat wave in the middle of all this unusual chillyness.. 90-100+ degrees for about 4-5 days.
ive been going crazy turning heaters on and off, lowering water levels, adding cold water etc for the last few days.
we had spring flooding the previous 2 years i think it was(not this year though.. but people were prepared), maybe a 1 yr gap in between springs... ive seen cars underwater, 1st floors of houses a foot underwater, homes evacuated.. but tornados and more severe weather didnt go along with it. the river was way higher than usual though, creepy to see.

i hope you guys all stay safe n i wish you the best of luck. tornados are very scary things, i get anxious when it gets unusually windy over here(like during tstorms and stuff).. cant even imagine going through the things you guys are right now. i hope it ends soon.
 
keep us posted! How is everyone doing?
 
just caught the local news and they stated Kansas has had 176, Iowa has had 137, and Missouri has had 129 twisters. I'm originally from Milwaukee/Chicago and alot of buddies said the Milwaukee river crested over and had cars washing down Wisconsin Ave. CrAzY!

I like strong storms but they do get old when they start affecting our daily lives.

Be safe. kiLLz

pictures are from May 5, '08. Just a few blocks from our house.
 
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