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(@stlsurveyor)
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That strange strong wind is ramping up from the south. Robins are chirping loudly. People are are talking about the weather forecast.

Spring is in the air.

Better be sure to eat lunch at home today and clean out the garage so I can pull both cars in. Large hail is in the forecast.

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 6:37 am
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Storming here right now.....tighten down everything....

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 6:56 am
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Looks like that is heading to the northeast tomorrow. Stay safe.

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 6:59 am
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Not here! Just had 18" more of winter here - I shoveled it for 2 hrs this A.M.

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 7:09 am
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It's quite funny because a lot of fellow Californians are saying, "I am so tired of the rain!" Even as we admit that we still need it. I hope we get some late spring rain...anything to stave off the mountain/hillside vegetation from drying out and turning into excellent wildfire fuel.

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 12:03 pm
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After the rain fell straight down for a few days and turned into a morning of dense fog followed by window rattling thunder for two days and lightning sounds and flashes last night it started getting windy and blew it all to the northeast at 20mph and higher winds today.
:sun: maybe tomorrow

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 7:36 pm
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From the 11PM radar it looks like it's HC's turn in the 'bad weather barrel'.

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 8:56 pm
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You got that right! I'll find out tomorrow what really happened tonight. Too dark to tell anything.

 
Posted : February 28, 2017 9:57 pm
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Holy Cow, post: 416303, member: 50 wrote: You got that right! I'll find out tomorrow what really happened tonight. Too dark to tell anything.

Nothing major in the StL area. Early morning as a good line rolled through at 2.

TV reports that a tornado touched down near Fredericktown, MO and stayed on the ground all they way into Indiana, approx. 199 miles. If true, that matches the record of the 1925 Tri-State tornado. Ironically, last nights tornado followed the same path of the Tri-State storm within 20 miles, and only 18 days from the anniversary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Tornado

I am heading down to Poplar Bluff, MO in about 20 mins. Should be daylight when I pass through Fredericktown.

Our member ropestretcher lives up near Ottawa, IL where a another big twister said hello and took at least one soul while doing so....

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 3:35 am
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In an area about 3 miles to the north and then going east there was golf ball sized hail. Need to cruise by a house I own close to that area. I have a meeting this afternoon with the sheriff and undersheriff so I will learn much more then.

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 5:24 am
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Holy Cow, post: 416317, member: 50 wrote: In an area about 3 miles to the north and then going east there was golf ball sized hail. Need to cruise by a house I own close to that area. I have a meeting this afternoon with the sheriff and undersheriff so I will learn much more then.

Hope everything is still intact!

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 7:05 am
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Things appear as they should.

However, there are a bunch of trees down today at that farm that were upright when the sun came up today. Bulldozers sure are handy for certain things. Been meaning to get some clearing done for several years. Today was day one.

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 11:44 am
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Holy Cow, post: 416406, member: 50 wrote: Things appear as they should.

However, there are a bunch of trees down today at that farm that were upright when the sun came up today. Bulldozers sure are handy for certain things. Been meaning to get some clearing done for several years. Today was day one.

I live in town now and los hombres take care of what tree business I have. When I lived on dirt roads there was always some brushing or clearing I planned on doing when "the weather got right".

As I get older I realize there is usually only a week or 10 days in the Spring when (a) the trees haven't leafed yet and (b) the ground is dry enough to not make one big damned mess.

Now if the wind doesn't kick up you can burn them and be done with it.

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 12:04 pm
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Most are out in the middle of what was a soybean field last fall. Mainly rocks and dirt. Very little to burn. BUT, you know the local fire department sold their A#1 fire truck, so I had better be careful.

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 1:53 pm
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Holy Cow, post: 416446, member: 50 wrote: Most are out in the middle of what was a soybean field last fall. Mainly rocks and dirt. Very little to burn. BUT, you know the local fire department sold their A#1 fire truck, so I had better be careful.

Yeah...I still want me an old fire truck.

The cool thing about the green one I missed out on was the "Stark" name on the door. 😉

 
Posted : March 1, 2017 2:56 pm
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Update on Tuesday night's damage.

To the best of my knowledge only one place was hit severely where I have assets. I have a young fellow who does much of my farm work and related concerns. His place took on the full force of the powerful winds. One wood/metal siding & roofing building looks like a bomb went off inside of it. I'm half owner of a 3020 John Deere tractor that now has all sorts of building materials wrapped around it that was in one end of the 20' x 100' building. Another building that used to be a roundtop pipe/canvas structure is two-thirds gone. Fortunately the couple tons of lespedeza seed of mine stored there seems to be intact. The shop building that was about 40' x 80' is sort of still standing there with bowlegs and is narrower in places and wider in places but in definite need of replacement. A flatbed pickup of mine was parked near the south side and prevented additional bowing out in that immediate area. Minor damage to the pickup. Another wood/metal siding & roofing building disintegrated leaving a couple hundred square bales of prairie hay fully exposed to the elements. About half of the south wall of that building slipped off the concrete support wall, landed next to a 30-foot stock trailer of mine and is now leaning up against the trailer. Just north of that building sets my 8640 John Deere Tractor (that's a big one with eight wheels that bends in the middle when turning). Somehow, it appears to be fine. A 14' disc harrow of mine is completely covered in remnants of the roundtop structure. A self-propelled hay swather and rock bucket show no signs of damage, fortunately.

The winds that night were moving to the east-northeast. Most of the building remnants are strewn to the south for one-quarter mile with some to the north and very few to the east. The house, located about 100 feet directly east of the shop building, appears to have sustained no damage other than probably losing some shingles.

 
Posted : March 5, 2017 11:06 am
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Holy Cow, post: 416987, member: 50 wrote: Update on Tuesday night's damage...Just north of that building sets my 8640 John Deere Tractor (that's a big one with eight wheels that bends in the middle when turning)..

'smatter HC, don't think anybody here has a vocabulary that includes the adjective "articulating"? 😉

Seriously though, tin barns and shops sure seem to suffer with the wind down here too. Glad your lespedeza didn't escape. It could have been responsible for "leguming" two or three sections downwind from you.

It is almost that time of year to make sure the cellar door is oiled. And make sure Auntie Emm, Dorothy and Toto all have a storm app on their smart phones...

 
Posted : March 5, 2017 11:16 am
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Sum of we ain' t nearly as well at articulatin' as sum udders.

As for Toto, he gets so frustrated that his big paws have difficulty with the tiny screen on his smart phone that he sometimes treats it as his urinal...........if you catch my drift.

 
Posted : March 5, 2017 1:29 pm
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Here we go again...

 
Posted : March 6, 2017 11:07 am
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StLSurveyor, post: 417133, member: 7070 wrote: Here we go again...

You can keep that nasty stuff on the other side of the Mississippi....thank you....

 
Posted : March 6, 2017 11:43 am
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