Posted on 07/19/2006 7:53:21 PM PDT by silentknight
Early reports:
Repost from other forum
folks, streaming of news coverage from damage in stl at kmov.com,
AmerenUE reports OVER 340,000 people out in metro St. Louis ALONE, 3 building collapses in the city, roof off parts of Lambert Airport, power out in one terminal, BUT the cardinals game is still on.
EDIT::: Debris from collapsed building on the Eads Bridge across the mississippi, Metrolink train service is DOWN, Mayor slay mentions this as one of the worst storms to hit the metro st. louis area in a long time.
Major damage across all of Central Illinois back into Northwest Illinois.
Storms also exploding now back into Minnesota
HALF MILLION without power in the St Louis area
I'm in Pekin, Illinois. About as central as it gets. No damage here.
Yeah, its damaged alright! You can already find pieces of it for sale on ebay.
My mother is one of them without power. Temps are suppose to be 100F with the heat index as high as 115F for Thursday.
Local STL News is showing some major damage to the area. One tornado was spotted in Jefferson Barracks (South St. Louis County)
Video showing people trying to take shelter a Busch Stadium with newspaper boxes flying into the main entrances of the stadium due to 80mph winds.
Storms Pound St. Louis Area; 350,000 Lose Power, Buildings Collapse
http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=100574
It was NASTY!
No water service for parts of North St. Louis County. The water treatment plant is without power.
I should remember this, but I don't.
What is a derecho?
Is there more? What happened?
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/mo/public.html
Wow on the storm damage reports
I heard earlier that the bridge across the Mississippi is closed, but I'm sure that will be cleaned up in the morning. The main bridge -- the Poplar Street Bridge (I64, I70, I55 and I44 all cross together there) had some tractor trailors blown over. The worst problem she'll probably face will be the construction at about 25 miles west of downtown or so. If I hear otherwise I'll come back and post here.
That is what my mom said. (I live about 80 miles away from STL) She said the lightening was awful. She lives out by the airport.
Some photos here...
http://ksdk5.4wmt.com/packages/templates/anonymous/album/browse.aspx?pageid=2f433daf-b44f-49a0-a624-f1d024409f39
Well, actually will have to check if it met the formal definition....
But essentially what went through St. Louis was a curved line of thunderstorms with extreme straight line winds. Even if there were any embedded tornadoes 99% of the damage will turn out to have been caused by straight line winds.
There's a curious inability of the public to accept that you can have serious wind damage from anything that isn't a tornado - Derechos, downbursts, etc.
https://thunderstorm.vaisala.com/tux/jsp/explorer/explorer.jsp
Updated every half hour.
Must have been Nelly's Pimpjuice.
Nothing here in Bloomington Normal. A friend of my daughter in Peoria had a large tree fall on here house during the storm around 3:30 today.
Thanks. I'm trying now to contact her by cell. I left her a message
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