Pretty wicked weather out west eh?

[Locutus]

Peter QuinlanVerified account ‏@PQuinlanGlobal

Tornado Warning update: Radar indicating possible tornado now 15km south of Eatonia between hwys 21 & 649. #skstorm

CTV - David Spence ‏@CTVdavidspence

TORNADO WATCH (dark red) Bassano, Brooks, Lomond, Vulcan. Yellow = Severe t-storm warning. #abstorm #yyc #Calgary

 

[Spade]

The wind sure cut through that fence alright!

 

[Locutus]

strained that hail reallll good like.

 

[petros]

T Storms are fun. It's just the Angels bowling.

 

[Locutus]

The thunder roared, the lightning crashed
The whole damn world was shakin'
The little pig stuck up his tail
and ran to save his bacon.

 

[Spade]

Used to shinny up the metal flagpole by the school just to see them better.

 

[B00Mer]

Hail and heavy rain hitting downtown Okotoks - YouTube

Okotoks, AB Aug 8th, 2014

City streets flooded after hail storm hits Calgary - Calgary | Globalnews.ca

 

[petros]

Used to shinny up the metal flagpole by the school just to see them better.

As any fool knows, a dog needs a home, to take shelter from pigs on the wing.

 

[MHz]

Calgary and water, is it the Stampede time already? Giddy-up or is that Ahoy Matey. This system usually does some weird things once it meets the GOM air.
If you could build something that would sail through a twister and keep the rider safe would people try it out?

 

[darkbeaver]

We had similar weather here today, hail, near tropoical downpours, some sun, and now it's cold and wet

 

[petros]

Regina man drowns at Last Mountain Lakefrom a week or so ago. Prairie storms are crazy.

 

[Locutus]

damn nature, you scary.

 

[Ludlow]

those tornadees'll ruin ye

 

[petros]

Storm suppression teams get to most storms before they get too massive and hit cities with hail or twisters. Amazing stuff.

 

[MHz]

We had similar weather here today, hail, near tropoical downpours, some sun, and now it's cold and wet

So basically a normal day. The Eastern US doesn't handle fast downpours very well let along how the wind messes things up. I still can't understand why underground isn't more popular. Even 6ft down would allow a dirt berm to surround the basement or ground floor and the roof could be designed. Trailer parks could have some shallow root cellars and the trailer can be swept away while the people are safe from a cat 5 storm.

 

[petros]

Chuds

 

[darkbeaver]

I live on a mountain the drainage is perfect, I have to blast a house out of the rock someday. I need the stone for a pyramid as well.

Chuds

googled it, hahahahahahahahahahahah

 

[petros]

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

 

[Ron in Regina]

My basement flooded again tonight. Already had the floor jack-hammered
out, and the backwater valve purchased, and the old gateway valve exposed,
but hadn't sawsalled out the out one to install the new one yet.

That WAS to have been one of tomorrow's (today now technically) projects.
'Bout 4" again. Got it under control and mostly drained, and now will shopvac
'till morning, and then disinfect (again), and then dry the place out (again).....

 

[Locutus]

I probably couldn't have written that without a bunch of asterisks Ron. That just sucks.



On the up side, at least it wasn't one of those sharknado things. Too far inland I think. ;-)