Never researched the idea much. There is some irrigation close to me but that is on lighter soil that needs extra water during the growing season.
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I work nights and usually wake up around mid-to-late morning so imagine my surprise when I wake up at 10 AM and it's still dark out. And literally 5 seconds later the sirens are going.
Oh my gosh. I'm so sorry for your family but glad to hear everyone is physically okay.
Question for others, when I see pictures like this... How are these monster tornados even survivable in the basement when it literally rips the entire house off the foundation? These are my worst nightmare.
Kinda looks like the builder wanted it to blow down. Never seen a house framed like that and I know nothing about framing.
On Ryan Hall's live at the end of last night, someone had a report of 118 mph straight line winds from Monday night, in Nebraska.
Wonder what happened to the tanker truck that just barreled into the tornado.
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Blown into the ditch, apparently. You can see it at the beginning of this video … along with a house further to the east that was destroyed, and the other semi we saw start to blow over before the traffic camera went out.
Those blades being aerodynamic, they get up in the air they could gona long ways if not broken up.
Would hate to be anywhere near they land.
No sheathing. If they're not going to sheath the walls as they build up, the need to have it braced to hell. Looks like the had a few braces but obviously not nearly enough. It wouldn't take much wind to knock that thing over.
When my company built their previous location, it blew down twice in the course of construction. Mostly bad timing and pretty severe wind, but I can tell you all of us got nervous anytime a big storm was coming through lol. Our owner had them put hurricane straps on the last time though, so probably not as much to worry about from an ordinary storm.
A friend of my brother lived through the Parkersburg tornado in their basement. His wife, his daughter and he were in the back corner of their walk-out against the slab wall. They were wrapped in debris and he said a few times the winds were pulling his eyelids open. When it was over he looked up and both their vehicles were partially hanging over the wall above them.
waking up this AM all I can ask is why didn't NWS tor-e that one? Not like it was a hindsight thing. We were thinking that in real time.
I think the answer might be a little different. Today with all the technology and live streams/radar feeds, individuals need to be proactive. It’s probably better to shelter unnecessarily a couple times a year if you are uncertain how bad something could be.
