Mzkitty
I give up.
Mz Kitty, my car and house insurance covers for a tornado.
Good to know, thanks, TG.
Mz Kitty, my car and house insurance covers for a tornado.
Tremendous response from all over the area. People who are not actual homeowners need to stay out of the area, they are causing traffic and other problems. Opening up the fairgrounds to be able to take livestock and pets there.
Presser
First question lobbed by the media to the Governor.
"Can you descibe your emotions when you saw the damage?"
The inevitable media intern "How did you feel?" question.
This is nuts. Only 6 seconds, so you probably will have to hit pause and unpause to really absorb it all. How in the world did this come out of nowhere? Don't answer that, I don't relate well to all the meteorology stuff......
Video: High speed satellite loop of the Oklahoma tornadoes - via YouTube user NOAAVisualizations
4 mins ago from www.youtube.com by editor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYO5n3aQp4
Ma'am, that should be at LEAST a 12 or 18 hour loop heavily compressed...
This is nuts. Only 6 seconds, so you probably will have to hit pause and unpause to really absorb it all. How in the world did this come out of nowhere? Don't answer that, I don't relate well to all the meteorology stuff......

Most of western NY state is under a tornado watch now until 9 pm tonight. Not really worried- the worst we've ever seen was 3 years ago; an F2 took out almost every mature tree in the small town 4 miles from us, but didn't cause any direct damage to our farm. I did lost most of my vegetable garden due to the power being out for 18 hours- the blasted beef cows figured out that the fences were dead and had a party. Sigh...
It does feel like tornado weather here- it's 88° and humid, and there are thunderheads building on the western horizon.
Summerthyme
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 203 is in effect until 9:00 pm EDT For the following locations NY.
New York counties included are Albany Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Fulton Genesee Greene Hamilton Herkimer Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Niagara Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orleans Oswego Otsego Rensselaer Saratoga Schenectady Schoharie Schuyler Seneca Steuben Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Warren Washington Wayne Wyoming Yates.
Look at the red outlined area!!! Practically the whole state!
http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=3efa2f2fcfe27fca&hl=en&gl=US&source=web
Blueridge, you are right. Looking at the mangled wrecks in the pictures, not only did it twist them into hulks, it seemed like it took the paint off the cars too.
More: Path of tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was 17 miles long, 1.3 miles wide; 1st EF-5 tornado of 2013 - @AP
34 secs ago from bigstory.ap.org by editor
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MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 mph.
Spokeswoman Keli Pirtle said Tuesday the agency upgraded the tornado from an EF-4 on the enhanced Fujita scale to an EF-5 based on what a damage assessment team saw on the ground. The weather service uses the word "incredible" to describe the power of EF-5 storms.
The weather service says the tornado's path was 17 miles long and 1.3 miles wide.
Pirtle says Monday's twister is the first EF-5 tornado of 2013.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/oklahoma-twister-top-scale-ef-5
Believe it or not about three weeks ago during a warm spell WE were under tornado watch here in middle Ireland! Husband thought I was joking when I went and told him that, he was working in the garden and since tornadoes are really rare here (though one did take off a roof in the next village over a few years ago) I just told him that the watch was real, it was not a warning but if saw the usual signs (he spent his teenage years in Texas) just come inside and get under the stairs or our pantry (mostly underground) room.
LOL red baron!