Posted on 05/13/2022 6:54:07 PM PDT by blam
I would rather several Herboobs ripped through her dress.
She pointed a pair of 38s at me then she pulled her gun.
Do you rekon all of these dust storm will result in a new dustbowl. Are we likely to to see a new Okie invasion of California.
Like Grouch said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
Yes, they are straight line winds, sort of like a horizontal tornado. Here’s an article about another one that hit Minnesota a couple of decades ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Waters%E2%80%93Canadian_derecho
They’re not that uncommon. My sister experienced two in one summer several years ago, one in Minnesota and the other in Maryland. The Minnesota one knocked over a tree onto our parent’s house.
Pierre Derecho...wasn’t that Mitt Romney’s secret twitter handle?
Romney’s alias - Pierre Delecto.
I spent a week in the Boundary Waters area about a month after that event. The number of trees blown down was beyond count. It was an incredible event to view.
Going up and spending most of my life in Kansas and Missouri, I have experienced a half dozen of these storms to one degree or another. I remember one that hit about 7 AM and looking out the bedroom window as I had been dressing to leave for work, it looked like I was in a submarine. — said water piled against the glass. The wind was in the 80s and 90s for about 20 minutes — it was not like a tornado due to the duration alone.
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