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Post by gipsy on Aug 10, 2021 19:39:15 GMT -6
Well it got exciting last night. Tornado warnings over several hours. They hit west of me with 7 different touchdowns. No fatalities. We have thunderstorms here tonight.
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Post by papaof2 on Aug 10, 2021 19:54:59 GMT -6
Scary to have tornadoes anywhere in your area. I've never been in one, but I have driven through an area in the immediate aftermath. The destruction is hard to believe until you've seen it up close: "You can't do THAT to a 60 foot oak tree!"
The better half and I have discussed "Where do you go in a tornado?" and there's a place in the basement about 7 feet wide with three sides being foundation walls (bump out in the foundation to make room for the stairs to the basement and as part of the support for the brick porch). There are I-beams that runs on either side of the hallway next to the basement stairs and they are supported by foundation walls on both ends. That space is probably the sturdiest place in the basement with easy access to the outside - up the stairs if they're not blocked or down the hall with I-beams on either side and then out the back way.
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We heard thunder from today's "Scattered Thunderstorms" but nothing else.
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Post by gipsy on Aug 11, 2021 9:25:06 GMT -6
We are getting more thunderstorms today with some rain which we need.
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Post by papaof2 on Aug 11, 2021 16:38:20 GMT -6
We've had rain (not heavy) and a little thunder but the worst of today's thunderstorms went a few miles West of us.
Biggest outage for our power co-op in the 2213 total meters out, is 1622 meters which started about 16:20 (how appropriate ;-) Had the path of the storm been just a little to the East, I might have been part of an outage that size and be posting this by the light of an oil lamp...
The other power co-op serving this county has 7 meters out over 5 counties so most of the weather also skirted them.
Georgia Power has 4000+ meters out across the state, with most of those in the Northwest quadrant of the state - mostly along a line running North-northwest from the I-85/I-285 junction on the Southwest corner of Atlanta (about 1800 meters in the College Park / Union City area) to the GA-TN stateline. Those outages are all from the storm front which is still active as I post this so the final outage numbers might be higher.
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