A close miss

[bigredfish]

Nothing too interesting but thought I’d post these from the storm we had a few days ago.
Those here in Floriduh know we can get some doozies and I believe this one was just a few twirls away from being a tornado on the ground.

Weatherman said we had 40-60 gusts and it certainly looked and sounded very close to the few hurricanes we’ve experienced at 60-70 sustained so sounds about right.

What caught my eye was the wind direction changing from N/NE to S/SE in a matter of minutes ( we were under tornado warning, it was clearly spinning up)

Watch the wind driven rain direction on the main 4 lane street




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[bigredfish]

Traffic usually hauls ass on that road, 55-60 on a posted 45.

We lost power for 4 hours at 9:41

 

[Parley]

Traffic usually hauls ass on that road, 50-60 on a posted 45.

We lost power for 4 hours at 9:41

I was going to say that the traffic was still moving along at a good clip. Also the camera held up well.

 

[bigredfish]

Yeah out of all of them the only problem was a 6 yr old 5231-Z12 that finally got water intrusion. I have a 5241 to replace it with this weekend

 

[TonyR]

Yeah, in my experiences the close spacing of those lightning bursts always seems to be present when a tornado is nearby or impending, so like you said, it almost happened!

 

[Smilingreen]

Nothing too interesting but thought I’d post these from the storm we had a few days ago.
Those here in Floriduh know we can get some doozies and I believe this one was just a few twirls away from being a tornado on the ground.

Weatherman said we had 40-60 gusts and it certainly looked and sounded very close to the few hurricanes we’ve experienced at 60-70 sustained so sounds about right.

What caught my eye was the wind direction changing from N/NE to S/SE in a matter of minutes ( we were under tornado warning, it was clearly spinning up)

Watch the wind driven rain direction on the main 4 lane street




more cameras here

bigredfish59

youtube.com

Well......now we know who lost their pool float.....


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[lulu5kamz]

Well......now we know who lost their pool float.....


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Pool float?...if they didn't cut that video, I'm pretty sure there would be a naked guy running after his "float".

 

[Smilingreen]

Pool float?...if they didn't cut that video, I'm pretty sure there would be a naked guy running after his "float".

"Ya picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille"......

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Being from Houston, its weird seeing a street with actual drainage

 

[Sybertiger]

This must have been a couple of days ago when all my weather alerts were going crazy for tornado warnings in the Orlando area. Lucky for us, no tornados spun up.

 

[bigredfish]

Yup. I was watching radar and it looked like one was indeed swirling, but didn’t drop down to ground level. That would make sense with what I saw on the winds at ground level.

1st pic see the hook in the middle, right over top of us.
2nd pic 4 min later it’s closing up

 

[IReallyLikePizza2]

Many power outages?

This is what a brief nighttime storm means in Houston now

 

[bigredfish]

Ouch. We were out for a bit less than 4 hours.

 

[CCTVCam]

Believe it or not, we get the odd one in the UK albeit not very strong. I had an experience where one came up my road. Couldn't actually see the tornado, but the sky went black, the rain went horizontal and then large trees started to bend double. Cars on the road had to stop. I was stood outside protected by the side of the ouse and it was like in twister when they're inside the tornado and the walls were wizzing pst horizontally. Luckily no damage as I must ahve been on the edge, it was too weak, but very interesting experience.