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November 16th-18th Storm General Discussion/Obs


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  On 11/18/2013 at 6:08 AM, Geos said:

Dang, that's strong. Peak wind gust here was 55mph.

 

  On 11/18/2013 at 6:11 AM, Hal said:

Same, and this is definitely better than the Halloween storm. Can feel my building shake at times!

 

 

Wow on the 1:00am update Port Colborne now reporting a 65mph gust (105 km/h), sustained 51mph (82 km/h).   :lmao:

 

Over 100K without power now in ON.

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  On 11/18/2013 at 6:11 AM, harrisale said:

Wow on the 1:00am update Port Colborne now reporting a 65mph gust (105 km/h), sustained 51mph (82 km/h).   :lmao:

 

Over 100K without power now in ON.

 

Customers or population? Last I heard almost 60,000 Hydro One customers were out, not including local utilities.

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  On 11/18/2013 at 6:38 AM, harrisale said:

That's HydroOne customers. Up to 107K now.

 

Geez! One by one they're coming down. Not hearing any reports yet of hydro outages across Waterloo Region. *knock on wood* But the wind is seriously gusting right now. Sounds like a steaming kettle in the apartment hallway for some reason. Might take a short walk soon to inspect the street.

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  On 11/18/2013 at 6:42 AM, Hal said:

Geez! One by one they're coming down. Not hearing any reports yet of hydro outages across Waterloo Region. *knock on wood* But the wind is seriously gusting right now. Sounds like a steaming kettle in the apartment hallway for some reason. Might take a short walk soon to inspect the street.

I'd recommend it you don't get this kind of wind too often! Have to work tomorrow sadly or else I'd still be out there. House creaking like it hasn't in a while.

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Guys , you know  lot more about this then I do. We have small trees down all over the woods . In most places they all face toward the northeast.  In one spot we have trees facing North East, East, and South West. Could this have been  micro-burst?

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  On 11/18/2013 at 9:09 PM, knitwx said:

Guys , you know  lot more about this then I do. We have small trees down all over the woods . In most places they all face toward the northeast.  In one spot we have trees facing North East, East, and South West. Could this have been  micro-burst?

 

Sounds like a divergent damage pattern.  Did you report it to NWS?

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  On 11/21/2013 at 10:19 PM, Hoosier said:

Here is a video from my school (work) where we missed the tornado but took some pretty good winds. The real action starts about 2 minutes.

How close were you to the tornado?

I was in Burlington and missed it completely by 8-10 miles. The video was maybe 6-8 miles away.

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  On 11/21/2013 at 10:21 PM, KokomoWX said:

I was in Burlington and missed it completely by 8-10 miles. The video was maybe 6-8 miles away.

 

Ah.  I've seen probably 100 pics from Kokomo and the damage looks pretty intense but I'm sure that pics don't do it justice.  My thoughts are with you guys.   

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We dodged a lot of bullets with the storm as far as damage and injuries. I think we will have 35-45 destroyed homes from the storm. Around 300 with damage. I did damage assessment with a retired Kokomo firefighter and there were times we were both confused where we were at. All the recognizable landmarks and signs were gone. A very close call to the movie theater and a Kokomo lost one fire station but was very close to losing three.

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Glad to see you're okay Jim. Nice video. I was spotting in southwestern Huntington County and experienced similar wind and near zero visibility conditions for about a minute. I found out later that I was positioned about 4 miles from where the Grant County EF-2 lifted.

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  On 11/22/2013 at 1:35 AM, Hoosier said:

IND has the path of the LAF EF3 at ~30 miles in the Damage Assessment Toolkit.  Feel very fortunate that it skirted the south/east fringe of town or else we'd be dealing with another Kokomo. 

Yikes. Just checked it out. A couple of miles northwest and it would have gone through industrial complexes, densely populated residential areas, IVY Tech College, and near the Tippecanoe mall and lots of businesses.

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Washington HS football team is playing in a semifinal game on Saturday....Joilet Catholic players and some of their family drove down to Washington and put together a dinner for them last night...good stuff...

 

http://heraldnews.suntimes.com/news/23909623-418/jca-football-players-lend-a-helping-hand-to-their-washington-counterparts.html

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