Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

"Jay Honeck" wrote:


Dang. It really *was* towering over me...

Glad you & yours are ok.

Have the weather boffins assigned an intensity category to this one?

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Glad you & yours are ok.

Have the weather boffins assigned an intensity category to this one?

Whoa. The latest from the NWS is that we were hit by FIVE tornadoes. I
guess I only saw 1/5th of them.

They have now confirmed the touchdown point of the biggest tornado (the
one that buzzed right through the U of Iowa campus, causing millions of
dollars in damage, and injuring 30 people) as being at the corner of
Hwy 1 and Riverside Drive.

If you have a good arm, you can hit that spot with a baseball, standing
in our parking lot. And it's 1/4 mile from our hangar.

We were incredibly lucky.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Where is the hotel on that map?



"Jay Honeck" wrote in message oups.com...
Wow, you almost became a VFR-into-IMC casualty without even using an
aircraft. I'm glad everyone is ok!

Thanks, Gary. In fact, the tornado was closer to me than I thought it
was.

See this graphic:

http://web-server1.daily-iowan.uiowa...s/nadomapo.jpg

Blow it up to full-size (if it's not already), and check out Muscatine
Avenue on the right side of the map. That's where I was sitting, under
a gas station canopy, when the tornado came through.

Dang. It really *was* towering over me...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

(".Blueskies." wrote)
Where is the hotel on that map?


Approx. 500-ft AGL on an eastward heading.


Montblack

In article ,
".Blueskies." wrote:

Where is the hotel on that map?

Cowering behind the upper-right corner of the CLOSED sign
in the Dairy Queen picture inset (approximately).

--
Bob Noel
Looking for a sig the
lawyers will hate

Where is the hotel on that map?

Find the approach end of Rwy 25 (it's covered with a text box). We're
just north of it.

Closest structures badly damaged were Wal-Mart and Menards to the west,
and Hartwig Dodge and Dairy Queen to our north.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in news:1145128952.466242.142470
@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

Wow, you almost became a VFR-into-IMC casualty without even using an
aircraft. I'm glad everyone is ok!

Thanks, Gary. In fact, the tornado was closer to me than I thought it
was.

See this graphic:

http://web-server1.daily-iowan.uiowa...s/nadomapo.jpg

My first thought upon seeing this graphic was, "Is that all
the bigger Iowa City is? It's just a little town!!!"

I guess I'm used to living in the LA area where I can drive
for hours and tens of miles and never 'leave' the city.

Brian
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("Skywise" wrote)
I guess I'm used to living in the LA area where I can drive for hours and
tens of miles and never 'leave' the city.



We were surprised how big San Antonio is. It's as if you took everything,
suburbs too, in the Twin Cities and rolled them all into one city. San
Antonio isn't as big as the Twin Cities metro area but the idea is the same.


Montblack

"Skywise" wrote in message
...
My first thought upon seeing this graphic was, "Is that all
the bigger Iowa City is? It's just a little town!!!"

I guess I'm used to living in the LA area where I can drive
for hours and tens of miles and never 'leave' the city.

Awh, come on, it's IOWA, what did you expect? I was up there awhile back on
a contract for Rockwell Collins and got to experience it for 6 months... I
was in Cedar Rapids, a short drive north of there... Other than the various
widely seperated small towns, you will find lots and lots of corn fields,
interspersed with an occasional bean field... And not a decent BBQ joint in
the entire state, of course...

My first thought upon seeing this graphic was, "Is that all
the bigger Iowa City is? It's just a little town!!!"

I guess I'm used to living in the LA area where I can drive
for hours and tens of miles and never 'leave' the city.

I'm sorry, Brian. Having lived in big cities, I really do feel for
you.

Nothing here is more than 15 minutes away -- yet we have EVERYTHING,
thanks to the University.

It truly is a marvelous place to live...for now. (It's growing so
fast, it's scary!)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"