Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

Jay, glad you are OK, now let me beat you about the head and shoulders
for going out in your car with a twister dancing across town and you
knew it - and a convertible no less - jeez...

Trust me, I felt pretty stupid, especially after Mary told me not to
leave because one of several tornadoes were approaching.

Trouble was, I seriously thought that I had the superior weather
instrument, being in the weather room at the airport. The radar there
was showing that the worst of the storm had passed.

I won't make that mistake again.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
I won't make that mistake again.


You owe (S)omebody BIG time. g
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Easter Sunrise Service will be INSIDE the Church this year.

Bring the kids. "When we your your age...."

Give them a taste for this whole religion thing. You take them to museums
and State Parks. Not a bad time for a Jay and Mary (living memory)
time-capsule ...a Catholic mass - minus roof.

"Lift you hearts and your hands and your head to the heavens..."
"Hey, I can see it!"

Shoes shined Joe? Where's Becca's other white glove? Is the Easter offering
envelope still on the fridge? Where's my nice tie? Parents used to get
family pictures taken on Easter because that's the one time all nine family
members were all in their very best clothes.

Those kids will ALWAYS remember The Good Friday/Easter Tornado of '06.

Paul
Twin Cities has:
The Halloween Snow Storm of '91 ("The Perfect Storm" - storm)
The Floods of '65 (1969, 1993, 1997 were less dramatic)
The Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/200011/10_steilm_blizzard-m/
The Heat Wave of '36

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Trouble was, I seriously thought that I had the superior weather
instrument, being in the weather room at the airport. The radar there
was showing that the worst of the storm had passed.



I find that very interesting.

Is this an NWS NOAA radar, or is it a "private" operation (municipal, etc.)?
Is it a Doppler?

Is it possibly an operator problem? It almost sounds like you were looking
at an inappropriate "mode".

Jay Honeck wrote:
Trust me, I felt pretty stupid, especially after Mary told me not to
leave because one of several tornadoes were approaching.

Trouble was, I seriously thought that I had the superior weather
instrument, being in the weather room at the airport. The radar there
was showing that the worst of the storm had passed.

I won't make that mistake again.

Phew, for a minute, I thought you were going to say you were looking at
Pilot Mycast on your cell phone. I have this strange dream where you're
showing this to a bunch of us, we're in a nice restaurant (under a
Tornado watch), we're done with dinner and walking back to
camp...when...wham, instantly soaked. Poof, then I wake up in a cold
sweat...no, wait, it's not sweat, it's a tent dripping on me :-)

Seriously though Jay, very interesting the difference in what you were
seeing vs. what Mary was seeing.

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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Phew, for a minute, I thought you were going to say you were looking at
Pilot Mycast on your cell phone. I have this strange dream where you're
showing this to a bunch of us, we're in a nice restaurant (under a
Tornado watch), we're done with dinner and walking back to
camp...when...wham, instantly soaked. Poof, then I wake up in a cold
sweat...no, wait, it's not sweat, it's a tent dripping on me :-)

Man, that WAS a storm, no? Actually with much harder rain than this
tornado produced.

(Thankfully, no hail in *that* one, or we -- and a billion dollars
worth of planes parked at OSH -- would have been toast! Can you
imagine how much the insurance adjusters must sweat during OSH week?)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Man, that WAS a storm, no? Actually with much harder rain than this
tornado produced.

Ah yes, the Oshkosh memories. That night will be recounted for
generations to come...I can just hear the embellishments..."There we
were, strolling back from the Charcoal pit when, wham! Rain, hail,
*and* a funnel cloud were seen. Amazingly, the hail missed the N-40.
The ultralights, however, were creamed. And the twister managed to take
out the Hilton...wiped it clean off the foundation, creating a perfect
spot for the Alexis Park Inn & Suites of Oshkosh."

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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"Jay Honeck" wrote

Man, that WAS a storm, no? Actually with much harder rain than this
tornado produced.

(Thankfully, no hail in *that* one, or we -- and a billion dollars
worth of planes parked at OSH -- would have been toast! Can you
imagine how much the insurance adjusters must sweat during OSH week?)

Was this the '05 storm, you are talking about?
--
Jim in NC

(Thankfully, no hail in *that* one, or we -- and a billion dollars
worth of planes parked at OSH -- would have been toast! Can you
imagine how much the insurance adjusters must sweat during OSH week?)

Was this the '05 storm, you are talking about?

Yep. We (Jack, Steve, Montblack, et al) got caught in the torrential
downpour midway between the bar and our tent.

It was raining so hard, I couldn't run in my sandals -- the water kept
getting between my feet, and the soles of the sandals, and it was like
running on marbles...

Once in the tent we were fine, up high on our big, queen-sized
inflatable mattress. The kids, however, were down "in the valleys" and
spent a miserable night laying in puddles. This year, they've got
their OWN inflatable mattresses...

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote

Once in the tent we were fine, up high on our big, queen-sized
inflatable mattress.

BTDT

The kids, however, were down "in the valleys" and
spent a miserable night laying in puddles.

DTDT, too.

Last year, the mini-van was high and dry, *and* had no transmission
problems. g The worst I saw was a rather loud and violent flogging of my
front porch tarp.
--
Jim in NC

Once in the tent we were fine, up high on our big, queen-sized
inflatable mattress. The kids, however, were down "in the valleys" and
spent a miserable night laying in puddles. This year, they've got
their OWN inflatable mattresses...
:-)

Do those come with their own paddles?