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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2212 on: May 27, 2020, 05:48:46 PM »
There's a sliver in central FL that gets as many tornadoes as OK/KS.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2213 on: May 28, 2020, 01:52:55 AM »
I need to locate it but Tornado Alley as it is described has seen more frequency of tornadoes encroaching further east relative to its traditional alley of NE, KS, OK, TX.  

I stumbled upon the chart when I was talking with some guys in New England that I talk to each week after having successive tornado warnings during our weekly call.

It wasn't some seismic shift, but it told me there are comparable #s of tornadoes in IN, IL, OH, TN, MS, AL
Recognizing there are a lot of ways to measure and evaluate the data.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2214 on: May 28, 2020, 03:11:10 AM »
And that nature isn't static??
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2215 on: May 28, 2020, 07:51:59 AM »
We had quite a few when I lived in Cincy, one was devastating in the suburbs, I was driving back through KY listening on the radio of the track and thought there was a decent chance my house was gone.  It missed us by about a mile.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2216 on: May 28, 2020, 08:14:12 AM »
US deaths from virus down for 5th week in a row

I have not seen a 5 week steady decline in deaths in the news anywhere
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2217 on: May 28, 2020, 08:39:08 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on May 28, 2020, 08:14:12 AM
US deaths from virus down for 5th week in a row

I have not seen a 5 week steady decline in deaths in the news anywhere
Too busy commemorating 100,000 deaths. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2218 on: May 28, 2020, 09:07:12 AM »
The various sites show the appropriate graphs.  There isn't any magical about round numbers generally, but they do make news fodder.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2219 on: May 28, 2020, 04:06:54 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on May 28, 2020, 03:11:10 AM
And that nature isn't static??
Of course not.  Just interesting to acknowledge that tornadoes are now more prevalent in higher population areas of Mississippi River and east than previously understood. 

I've seen 2 tornadoes in my life, at a distance and heard one which was much closer.   It is not a pleasant experience.   I take shelter immediately upon warnings.  
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2220 on: May 28, 2020, 04:11:08 PM »
I saw a water spout off Kona in Hawaii near the airport once.  I was dropping off my kids.  It was impressive, all white.  That part of Hawaii hardly gets any rain, north of there they usually get rain one day out of the year, which makes for a nice vacation spot.  I was there for that one day and it was impressive.  A lot of folks had pulled off the highway instead of driving in what here would be a modest rain storm, but it got much worse as we neared Kona.

I wonder if tornadoes were more often reported in "Tornado alley" in the past because the land tends to be flatter and you can see further.

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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2221 on: May 28, 2020, 04:51:06 PM »
Tornado tracking and warning systems have gotten so much better.   I think theres something to that.   The two I've seen are only because of the vantage I had, which was in Nebraska with unlimited line of sight.  Not possible in the heavily tree lined environment i grew up with in WI or where I am in IN, though don't need to go far here to find flat fields. 
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2222 on: May 28, 2020, 06:08:46 PM »
I saw some water spouts on a cruise in the Bahamas.  I was in high school and didn't realize how far away they were.  It was scary initially....not immediate danger, but just the unfamiliarity with them.  No one was concerned, so I relaxed.


Plenty of experience with hurricanes, even in the eye.  That's the eeriest time of your life - blue skies in the dead center of a 600-mile wide hurricane.  No wind, no rain, for about 20 min.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2223 on: May 28, 2020, 06:13:35 PM »
The distance thing is interesting to me.  Even as a 30 year old moving out to AZ, I had zero ability to estimate distance of mountains, as I'd spent my whole life in FL.  Two problems there - no mountains in the distance and no visible horizons, aside from the ocean.  The lack of mountains isn't as big as the fact that in inland FL, you can't see anything, surrounded by trees - you can only see up, not out.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2224 on: May 28, 2020, 11:19:37 PM »
Watching this OSU Miami game for lots of memories. I was at this game with my brother and dad.
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Re: 2020 Offseason Stream of Unconciousness
« Reply #2225 on: May 28, 2020, 11:30:47 PM »
Btw the amount of bonkers shit that happened to playersin this game.

MoC - went to prison for robbery
Will Smith - shot and killed after traffic accident
Sean Taylor - shot and killed during a home invasion
Kellen Winslow - in prison for rape
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