Posted on 01/17/2012 8:17:01 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
The "meat horns" (air raid sirens) just went off.
Some branches down, but that is about it for E-Town. It looks like Louisville and Clarksville were clobbered by a couple of small twisters that damaged some buildings and knocked down a lot of trees and power lines.
I concur with a death toll of 31. That’s what the Courier-Journal says, and we know that it is never wrong.
You were in that? Damn!
I can only imagine how scary it must have been.
I’ve always found it curious that EAS warnings air only once, when you consider the tune-out factor associated with most radio formats. For many stations, their audience literally changes every 15 minutes, so there’s a good chance that most listeners miss the initial warning. And, if it weren’t for EAS, most stations would never air the warning, given the number of outlets who use satellite programming and computer automation. After 5 pm, you can’t find anyone at your local station, except the computer.
I was actually a kid living in Frankfort at the time (but it was part of the entire storm system)—we got hit pretty hard too. My mother sent me outside to retrieve a hailstone as big as a softball. And on my way back, chimneys, parts of roofs, houses, trees, bricks, etc, started falling all around me. It was kinda like an artillery barrage! LOL
That’s one hell of a hailstone!
I’ve never been in a tornado,knock wood.
Isn’t there an odd smell in the air brfore one hits?
I would imagine those sirens are ear-splitting.
I have heard that the sky can turn sort of greenish when a tornado is near, if it is during the daytime.
I think someone told me that there’s an odd smell in the air.
Have you ever smelled a rain storm? Summer rain will produce a strange smell, maybe that is what it is. My husband saw the greenish sky produced by a tornado when he was in college. He wasn’t in that tornado but he was close. He was in a tornado down on the Texas coast but it was at night.
Kinda an ozony type smell—sometimes. Sometimes the sky looks green, sometimes its not windy and then it hits. They all seem to be different except the sound. I’ve been in few, but the 74 one was the close as I’ve gotten.
There’s almost an evil sound.
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