Posted on 05/13/2022 6:54:07 PM PDT by blam
As an extreme weather event stampeded across South Dakota Thursday evening, images that emerged on social media called to mind the 1930s Dust Bowl era.
A destructive line of storms rips across Nebraska and South Dakota on May 12, leaving damage scattered all over the region.
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The multi-day severe weather threat across the Plains escalated on Thursday, with thunderstorms delivering powerful winds and massive hailstones across the region a day after a meteorologist was killed in a crash during a preceding storm.
The extreme weather event has been declared a Derecho, a long-lived thunderstorm complex that is sometimes called an "inland hurricane" due to the extensive wind damage that often occurs. According to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), there were 55 significant, hurricane-force wind gusts. "[Thursday was] the day with the 2nd most preliminary hurricane force wind gusts since at least 2004," SPC said.
Furious winds roared across the Plains Thursday with wind gusts over 100 mph tearing across states from Kansas to South Dakota to Wisconsin, taking down power lines and trees, kicking up walls of dust and even rolling semi-trucks.
"It was very forceful, very dark, it was very quiet up until the wind hit. Almost instantaneous, tree branches, and roof shingles and stuff started coming off structures," Arlington, South Dakota, Fire Chief Trevor Keating told AccuWeather Meteorologist Tony Laubach in an interview.
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Derecho = straight. Ends with “o”.
Derecha = to the right. Ends with “a”
Easy to remember as to the left is “izquierda”. Ending with an “a”.
But there is the more definitive usage that is masculine or feminine. So sometimes it can end with an “o”, for the feminine usage.
Disclaimer - I do not speak Spanish.
Big fans of Jerry Garcia.
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Driver from Chile
Freightliner driven by Jaskaran Singh
Not a Bob Smith among them.
DEADEAD...
Right up there with “HUGH and SERIES”.
A derecho deaded the middle of Iowa a couple years ago.
Aren’t those the words to The Pink Panther theme?
Deadead...Deadead...Deadead Deadead Deadead Deadead Deadead..... Deadeaaaaaad......
May they RIP in peace…
Right?
Deaded might be the new 'murdered'.
"That man, he left the whole family deaded."
I agree. RIPIP.
Summer of 2012? I was in northern Virginia doing some outprocessing steps before deploying overseas. I met my sister & brother-in-law for dinner in Old Town Alexandria that evening and we had just gotten back to their condo after dinner for a nightcap while I called for a cab back to my hotel when the derecho slammed in. That was CRAZY!
Deadead. Extra dead. Dead to the nth power.
Yhanks for explaining the subtle differences.
No, “o” for masculine (”honcho”), “a” for feminine (”senora”).
Other Spanish influence along this line shows up as for Philippines: “Filipino” and “Filipina”.
A mistake on my Filipina wife’s birth certificate has her first name ending with an “o” instead of the intended “a”. She no likey, but it’d be a bunch of trouble to change it, so she hasn’t.
The article doesn’t say - did this derecho have a bookend vortex? A big, strong bookend vortex can be some real fun.
https://www.weather.gov/media/pah/Top10Events/2009/S%20IL%20Windstorm%20May%208%202009.pdf
The proper way to become deadead is to have your beeber stuned. Once your beeber is adequately stuned, take a shower. After the shower, make sure you are logged in.
At that point you will surely be deadead.
That might’ve been the one that blew thru here (Illinois). We were at friends for dinner, decided to leave when the weather started looking really bad.
We didn’t make it home before all hell broke loose. So did a tree, a block from home, and fell in the road directly in front of us, taking the power lines with it.
If I had made the turn to go down our street 2 seconds earlier, that tree would’ve been on top of us.
That was one HELL of a night.
Did they used to call them straight line winds?
“Extremely dead’’? Are they merely dead or are they really most sincerely dead?
What an odd use of that Spanish word
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