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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Deadead?
Deadead?
Deadead. Like Raid. Kills them Deaded...
Okay. My mistake.
Extremely dead.
Deader than dead.
LOL!
Oh how this is gonna be good.
Yes, deadead, like kidnappeded as my wee grandson puts it. Just totally in that state, I guess I’d say.
It threw out a couple of Deadheads it had picked up earlier, still stoned and wearing tie-dye.
It’s important to be vaxxed. If you are, then the worst that can happen is you end up dead. But, if you’re not vaxxed, you could end up deadead.
I think Derecho means either straight or to the right in Spanish.
“And not only were they merely deadead, but they were most quite sincerely deadead!”
"Deadead"
Deader than dead.
The fatality was a weather babe from Mexico City “Meteorologist Martha Lilian Llanos Rodríguez, 30, of Mexico City, Mexico, was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 in southwestern Minnesota Wednesday evening, the Minnesota State Police said.”
The driver from Chile apparently stopped on the freeway because of downed power lines and they were hit by a Freightliner driven by Jaskaran Singh, 26. The Latinixs were out storm chasing.
Kind of reminds me of an expedition around South America in the 60s where we had embassy drivers. One of the crew told the story of the embassy driver stopping in the driving lane of the freeway near Buenos Aires at night to change a flat tire. Fortunately there was no other traffic.
Made dead. Past tense of the verb ‘dead’.
Extremely dead or just “mostly dead”?
How could the medics tell the difference?
A Derecho blew thru Maryland about 10 years ago. I’ve never experienced anything like it.
Deadead? Is that even worse than regular dead?
Jus’ wonderin’.
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