Posted on 04/13/2019 9:48:57 AM PDT by janetjanet998
Yep, they’re really talking this system up. I surely hope it won’t be as bad as they’re predicting. Stay safe, Viking!
I have already been watching it for the past couple hours.
I lived in SE Alabama for a year in 57-58. It seemed that I remember regular tornado warnings in Dale and Geneva counties where I was, and we had regular small tornado touchdowns and minor damage done.
Also, I used to think of Dothan as the melting city, since the heat waves in the summer gave it that appearance when you drove over to it.
Hang in there ,and be safe - Tom
I’m in the hills of S.E.TN between Knoxville and Chattanooga and tornadoes here just bounce around in the hills and get trapped in the valleys. I hate this time of year.
You’re correct about Dothan. I’ve lived In Alabama over 20 years, and have only gone down to Dothan twice, out of work-related necessity. You can’t get any deeper south and not get an Gulf breeze of some sort coming in. It’s a mosquito and alligator filled steam bath in August. I feel like I’ve got prickly heat just thinking about it. *chuckle*
I live in the Boston area and I believe most New Englanders have no idea of how many tornados Midwest and Southern states have to face. - tom
bad ass storm coming from Throckmore now
And don't forget the big eastern back diamond rattlesnakes.
When I was there the "fire ants" were starting to take over. I hope they got them under control. Those ants were nasty- Tom
I have a friend in Nebraska and it’s awful there. The difference is that they can see them coming from a long way. In the hills where I live you don’t see them until they jump over a hill and are on you. Once they come over the hill and land in the valley they struggle to get out. Several have come over the hill behind us and managed to stay airborne until they jumped the hill on the other side. Scary stuff.
Nope. The fire ants took over. If you hit their mounds with fire ant killer, the little buggers just move ten feet and set up shop again. It’s amazing how just a few bites from those tiny little monsters can make your entire limb go numb. And those diamondbacks are Hell on Earth. My little sister back home in the MD mountains got bitten by one walking down her porch steps in the dark a few years back. She thought it was just an insect sting until her ankle blew up and she started having breathing difficulty. They found the punctures in her ankle at the E.R. and it took almost half the antivenin in the tri-state area to keep her from going into complete renal failure. It was a couple of years before her kidneys were back to normal.
Tornado Warning for Warren Co, MS, large tornado reported.
Yeah, that threat timing map I posted above is in CST (from our Birmingham forecast office), not EST. We're right in that little sliver of Alabama on Eastern time, and if the timing and if intensity holds, a LOT of people around here will either be heading to, or coming from, Palm Sunday/revival services tomorrow morning, right in the middle of that 8A-2P window. My brother-in-law is a deacon at the church; as soon as my wife wakes up from her in-between-naps nap 🙄😆, I'll have her check to see if anybody there is keeping an eye on this weather. May be a game-time decision whether to get in the car tomorrow morning.
Sorry to hear about your sister an that diamondback bite.
Our longest diamondback was 6 feet 6 inches long. We regularly encountered them and pygmy rattlers while doing survey work in the bush.
In New England, nor'easters and hurricanes hit us, but we have plenty of warning.
Unfortunately you don't have that all the time when a tornado develops.
Good luck. - Tom
Do not want!!!
For some reason, my spider senses have been tingling on this issue lately...
Hot down here between Montgomery and Auburn. I had 88 for the high today. Currently (After 5:00 PM) 84 degrees...
Best bet for Dothan is to keep driving South on US 231 until you reach Panama City. Less than 2 hours away.
Global warming, obviously./s
Thanks so much!
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