Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Storm's a rolling in

Tonight across the Midwest USA, we had a large storm sweep across.  Hail, thunder and lightning, 60mph (100kph) winds, tornadoes, the works.  As the tornado sirens went off, I sent the rest of the family to take cover and pulled up audio feeds of the local police / fire / EMA, plus the local shortwave repeater repeater.  I also had the weather radar pulled up, plus the weather people on TV going nuts like they always do whenever there's the hint of bad weather.

What a world.  From my home, access to all kinds of information about what's happening.  Several radar systems, live pictures of the storms taken from satellites floating above us...  Actually, i could have done most of it from my cellphone, now that I think about it.

Do you ever stop and think about the technology that we take for granted every day?

14 comments:

  1. It must have sucked in the old days but I bet people 100+ years from now will think the same about us.

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  2. My Best Mate is in TN been watching those storms like a hawk. Hope you stay safe.

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  3. I got this here in the midwest some tornadoes even touched down in Illinois which is fairly close to me

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  4. part of my aunts house was taken out by one of the tornadoes, scary stuff man.

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  5. Hope nobody died, those Midwestern storms can be lethal.

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  6. It's been crazy recently. We had some pretty bad tornadoes out my way this past weekend.

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  7. Technology has really made life easier for us.

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  8. Tornadoes scare the living hell out of me. Stay safe!

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  9. I feel sorry for you guys in america, you get tornadoes where as we in australia dont, perhaps the worst is the tail of a tropical cyclone

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  10. Yeah i hope this isnt too destructive!

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  11. I know some people who were hit by the tornado. Scary stuff

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  12. climate change believe it now before its too late.

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