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edited April 2011 in Ten Forward
Well, not yet. But probably within the next couple hours I will be. So I won't be able to get online and play the game.

Know of any entertaining Star Trek-related websites to keep me occupied during my captivity?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Not Star Trek related, but I did find this.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Wait... What part of Alabama do you live in? I'm in the extreme northeastern section, Blount County to be more specific, and I haven't heard anything about tornadoes. :eek:

    ...Could be because I live right in the middle of the mountains, and people around here tend to scoff at anything tornado-related, but still...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    My sister's house was just impaled by a tree. :( You could always download and read through the empress' fan fic.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Well, not yet. But probably within the next couple hours I will be. So I won't be able to get online and play the game.

    Know of any entertaining Star Trek-related websites to keep me occupied during my captivity?

    If i could trade places with you i would. I would love to see a storm like that and hope over the next few years at University, i get the chance to go across to the States and work with Storm Chasers and photograph some amazing weather.

    Be safe too Commadore Bob. And although its not Star Trek related, you can have a look at my work in the link below. There are some beautiful lightning shots towards the last few pages.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Not Star Trek related, but I did find this.

    I've got that on my Facebook page, it's pretty hilarious
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Ah, Spring time. The birds are chirping, the flowers are budding, leaves are on the trees... and the sky is trying to kill us.

    I'm in the North East, got about four more months before it starts gunning for me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Daevan wrote:
    Wait... What part of Alabama do you live in? I'm in the extreme northeastern section, Blount County to be more specific, and I haven't heard anything about tornadoes. :eek:

    ...Could be because I live right in the middle of the mountains, and people around here tend to scoff at anything tornado-related, but still...

    I'll give you a hint, look at the ship name in my sig. ;)

    They may have issued a watch yet for Blount. Your time is coming. :D

    Edit: Blount went under a watch around time I did. But you are still a few hours out. I went ahead and took the kids to play in the basement while we wait for the squal line to come through. The neighbor already lost part of his fence in the high winds we've had all day.

    Edit2: Tornado to the north. Severe thunderstorm warning for us. The fun should be starting soon.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Lets hope the tornado just rips up some crops or doesn't bother to show up at all.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    There's the tornado warning. The TV station's logo is on top of my house so I can't tell if it'll miss us.

    Edit: if it holds out, it'll come close to hitting my house. FYI: we are at another location that is just north of the path. So Commadore_Bob ain't going anywhere. :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Squall line passed. No major action. Time to cook dinner.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Tornados are the best time to real life role-play Superman. After all, it's one of the few times you'll actually be able to fly without the aid of anything other than good old mother nature. One small piece of advice though. Landings are never as easy as they seem. :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    *throws a tomato* Poorly designed shelter.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Main thng is, ya stayed safe. :)

    Tornadoes are very rare for where I live in southern WV but not unheard of. That little bit of "not unheard of" has made me want to be able to witness a torndao at a safe distance. Weather has always facinated me, as long as it's not in the form of heavy rains and floods.:p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    NWS extended our Tornado watch by a couple of hours but I think that's just a CYA on their part. Now we are just getting boring old severe thunderstorms. Yawn....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Main thng is, ya stayed safe. :)

    Tornadoes are very rare for where I live in southern WV but not unheard of. That little bit of "not unheard of" has made me want to be able to witness a torndao at a safe distance. Weather has always facinated me, as long as it's not in the form of heavy rains and floods.:p

    This was taken about a year ago about half a mile from my house. Here is the same tornado when it was full strength (it is actually ~2 miles behind my church in the pic)

    This one was ultimately aimed at the cotten field ACROSS THE STREET. But with two kids, it was a close enough to prompt us bailing.

    This tornado was unique in that we could actually see it. Most tornados down here are rainwrapped, so they are mostly invisible. Hitting the tech-friendly town of Huntsville meant this tornado was photgraphed so much the NWS was actually able to build a website where you could watch the progress of the storm via pictures from the public. The University of Alabama -Huntsville's Atmospheric Science Department loved it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Commadore_Bob,

    Since you are still posting you are still ok. Let us know when the warning is over and its all clear for now. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Its good to hear you are safe.

    Oh, and thanks for the link :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    GMJahia wrote:
    Commadore_Bob,

    Since you are still posting you are still ok. Let us know when the warning is over and its all clear for now. ;)

    The T-storm warning we were under was just cancelled. We are still on the back end of the Tornado watch box, but I think it'll just be lightning and rain from now on.

    I appreciate everyone's concern. And I appreciate you letting me use up a thread here in Ten Forward. Though, with a thread devoted entirely to saying random things, it would appear that my thread wasn't all that disruptive to the way things are done here. ;)

    This kept me entertained while I listened to the doom and gloom coming from the TV weatherman.

    BTW: Yesterday was the anniversary of the 1974 Super Outbreak.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I'll give you a hint, look at the ship name in my sig. ;)

    They may have issued a watch yet for Blount. Your time is coming. :D

    Edit: Blount went under a watch around time I did. But you are still a few hours out. I went ahead and took the kids to play in the basement while we wait for the squal line to come through. The neighbor already lost part of his fence in the high winds we've had all day.

    Edit2: Tornado to the north. Severe thunderstorm warning for us. The fun should be starting soon.

    Blount's just now getting slammed with the brunt of the storm. No tornado warning yet, not even a watch, but we're getting hit by quite a bit of lightning, rain and hail. It started just as I was coming home from work, about 10 minutes ago. Oneonta hasn't seen this much rain since... Well... Since last week. :p

    Good to hear you're alright, though. Huntsville's been hit pretty hard in the past. I love Huntsville... It's not as cool as Birmingham or Trussville, but you're also much less likely to get shot in Huntsville!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    hort_wort wrote: »
    My sister's house was just impaled by a tree. :( You could always download and read through the empress' fan fic.

    Speaking of my fanfic I got a little funny side project that just went out of control. A little My-Hime/Persona/Bleach/Warhammer 40k piece that is up to 53 pages Times New Roman 12 point. That is something like a tornado I guess with it getting out of control.

    We had a tornado watch around me earlier today.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Daevan wrote:
    Blount's just now getting slammed with the brunt of the storm. No tornado warning yet, not even a watch, but we're getting hit by quite a bit of lightning, rain and hail. It started just as I was coming home from work, about 10 minutes ago. Oneonta hasn't seen this much rain since... Well... Since last week. :p

    Good to hear you're alright, though. Huntsville's been hit pretty hard in the past. I love Huntsville... It's not as cool as Birmingham or Trussville, but you're also much less likely to get shot in Huntsville!

    According to my redneck weather skills, it look like any danger of tornados has passed you. The air out in front of the front was very dry. That usually prevents the formation of those leader cells that pop out in front of the line. That's usually where you find your tornados. Even with the tornado warning we had earlier, I think it was mostly downdrafts and standard turbulence. The local weather guys weren't all that impressed.

    Stay safe. There is a lot of lightning behind the main line. I'm doing good to keep my kids in bed.

    I was around for the 1989 tornado that hit Huntsville. It's hard to believe that street was devastated looking at it today. That one was an F-4 and I remember the sky looking a very dark green color.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    According to my redneck weather skills, it look like any danger of tornados has passed you. The air out in front of the front was very dry. That usually prevents the formation of those leader cells that pop out in front of the line. That's usually where you find your tornados. Even with the tornado warning we had earlier, I think it was mostly downdrafts and standard turbulence. The local weather guys weren't all that impressed.

    Stay safe. There is a lot of lightning behind the main line. I'm doing good to keep my kids in bed.

    I was around for the 1989 tornado that hit Huntsville. It's hard to believe that street was devastated looking at it today. That one was an F-4 and I remember the sky looking a very dark green color.

    The storm's dying down now. We were just hit with a lot of wind, a lot of lightning and some hail. Pretty much par for the course for this time of year, right? I love Alabama weather. Yesterday, it was bright, beautiful and hot, with just a few clouds in the sky and a nice breeze. Today, we get slammed with the windstorm from hell.

    The '89 tornado was before my time, but I think it hit Oneonta too. From what I've heard, it didn't do much damage- tornadoes that make it past the mountains rarely do- but it uprooted a few trees. Good luck keeping your kids in bed. I used to love playing in stormy weather, 'back in the day'... Hah, makes me sound so old!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Daevan wrote:
    The storm's dying down now. We were just hit with a lot of wind, a lot of lightning and some hail. Pretty much par for the course for this time of year, right? I love Alabama weather. Yesterday, it was bright, beautiful and hot, with just a few clouds in the sky and a nice breeze. Today, we get slammed with the windstorm from hell.

    The '89 tornado was before my time, but I think it hit Oneonta too. From what I've heard, it didn't do much damage- tornadoes that make it past the mountains rarely do- but it uprooted a few trees. Good luck keeping your kids in bed. I used to love playing in stormy weather, 'back in the day'... Hah, makes me sound so old!

    Once you get into the F4-F5 range, what we call "mountains" in Alabama are nothing. Though, they will do some damage. The 1989 tornado was eventually done in by a mountain even though it did damage all the way across it.

    Though my father constantly jokes, what you call a funnel cloud in the valley we call a tornado on the mountain.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Once you get into the F4-F5 range, what we call "mountains" in Alabama are nothing. Though, they will do some damage. The 1989 tornado was eventually done in by a mountain even though it did damage all the way across it.

    Though my father constantly jokes, what you call a funnel cloud in the valley we call a tornado on the mountain.

    Hah, very good point. These 'mountains' are really nothing more than overgrown, overblown hills. Like you said, they'll weaken a tornado, but should an F4-5 come near Oneonta, they won't do much. They seem to take care of almost anything else, though... Tornadoes usually hit the mountains and either die down to a decent windstorm or 'hop' the city itself. Pretty much the only time a tornado has done serious damage to Oneonta is when it literally follows I-65 into the city. That actually happened a few years ago.

    Still, I feel for places like Albertville. They're still rebuilding after the tornado that tore through their city a year or so ago.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Ah. Another day of spring, another Tornado Watch....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Never thought I'd say this, but we were under a tornado watch ourselves today, and this weekend. Was a bit of a what-the-TRIBBLE-are-we-supposed-to-do-if experience, but nothing came of it.

    Hope all goes well for ya Bob. Stay safe
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    I expect to be under another one this weekend. This one should be a yawner. Even if a tornado formed it'd be a small one. Might relocate my grill, but that's about it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    Same old stuff again... (Points to those who identify the source)

    Another Spring day; another attempt by nature to kill me. Not under a Tornado Warning yet, but it'll come. I especially love the forecast:
    A SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK IS EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

    SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL
    AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL DEVELOP DURING THE AFTERNOON ACROSS
    MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST ALABAMA BETWEEN 3
    AND 7 PM....NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND SOUTHERN MIDDLE TENNESSEE
    BETWEEN 5 AND 9 PM...AND INTO NORTHEAST ALABAMA BETWEEN 9 PM AND 1
    AM. THE COLD FRONT SHOULD EXIT THE AREA BETWEEN 3 AM AND 6 AM ENDING
    THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT.

    THIS IS A POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. THERE IS A RISK
    OF SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY ACROSS NORTHWEST ALABAMA.
    REVIEW YOUR TORNADO SAFETY PRECAUTIONS BEFORE SEVERE WEATHER STRIKES.

    Minus a four-year stint in the US Army, I have lived in Alabama all my life. And even I have to ask what the heck a "significant tornado" is. What, are they going to name these? I'd imagine any tornado that hits my house is "significant."

    Anyway, everyone play my missions Trembler, Trembler 2, and Trembler 3. That way when I finally locate my computer in the field across the street I'll have some reviews to read.

    Edit: There's the Tornado Watch. BTW: Grammer TRIBBLE, I know what they are saying, I just found it amusing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    One of the best descrptions of different Tornados I've seen came from the movie "Twister" back in 1996

    Joey: [Discussing at Meg's on the tornadoes they have seen so far] No, that was a good size twister. What was it, an F3?
    Bill: Solid F2.
    Melissa: See, now you have lost me again.
    Bill: It's the Fujita scale. It measures a tornado's intensity by how much it eats.
    Melissa: Eats?
    Bill: Destroys.
    Laurence: That one we encountered back there was a strong F2, possibly an F3.
    Beltzer: Maybe we'll see some 4's.
    Haynes: That would be sweet!
    Bill: 4 is good. 4 will relocate your house very efficently.
    Melissa: Is there an F5?
    [Everyone goes dead silent]
    Melissa: What would that be like?
    Jason 'Preacher' Rowe: The Finger of God.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2011
    One of the best descrptions of different Tornados I've seen came from the movie "Twister" back in 1996

    Joey: [Discussing at Meg's on the tornadoes they have seen so far] No, that was a good size twister. What was it, an F3?
    Bill: Solid F2.
    Melissa: See, now you have lost me again.
    Bill: It's the Fujita scale. It measures a tornado's intensity by how much it eats.
    Melissa: Eats?
    Bill: Destroys.
    Laurence: That one we encountered back there was a strong F2, possibly an F3.
    Beltzer: Maybe we'll see some 4's.
    Haynes: That would be sweet!
    Bill: 4 is good. 4 will relocate your house very efficently.
    Melissa: Is there an F5?
    [Everyone goes dead silent]
    Melissa: What would that be like?
    Jason 'Preacher' Rowe: The Finger of God.

    I love that movie, but even I don't think that there is someone living in Oklahoma that is that ignorant about Tornados to not know there are F5 tornados.

    Here's how I told my wife about the various strengths:
    F0: Will knock over my grill.
    F1: Will put my grill in the neighbor's yard and flying debris could damage the house.
    F2: Will do damage to the house, but will not knock it over.
    F3: Will do significant damage to the house. It'll still be there, but will be in a pile.
    F4: Will relocate house to the field across the street in a million or so pieces.
    F5: Will do much of the landscape leveling I've been meaning to do in the backyard.

    As it turns out, the Tornado Watch I am under isn't the main one. My county just got caught in the upper corner of the watch box. So I am 100% certain it will be extended throughout the day.
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