So after the worst winter I've ever experienced, the trend is continuing to the Summer time. I haven't seen weather like this....well ever. It's hard to remember the last time that we weren't projected to have some storming, it's ridiculous. There's so much flooding right now that it's just blowing my mind. Palo, a small city near me, is currently being evacuated for flooding. Parts of Cedar Rapids and Waterloo are being evacuated because of that as well. It's crazy. Aside from flooding, tornadoes are also rearing their ugly head as well. I got the joy of spending about half an hour of my Sunday night chilling in my bathroom because there were funnel clouds spotted about 8 miles north of me. Parkersburg was also COMPLETELY destroyed about a week and a half ago by a massive F5 tornado. The thing was on the ground for over an hour, which is just insane. To say the least, I'm sick of this. We Iowans just can't seem to get a break. After a brutal winter, we're having just shit weather again. We're looking at the worst flooding since the massive flood of 1993 and we've had plenty of tornadoes to boot. Why, why can't we just have normal weather? It's insane.
I'd rather have hot weather than this. I usually complain in the summer because it's 95deg and humid as hell. Well, I have hardly seen the sun now in the last week and a half.
By boiling, I mean like 25C which is like 77F so it's not THAT hot, but its that really nice hot, lol.
Wow, you're complaining because of that?! I'd love for that to be our consistent temps. Basically, if we're not raining, we're 85+ and humid...which makes it feel closer to 90+.
We had 3 straight days of 95+ here in Mass. and yesterday at night we had thunderstorms, but thank god they moved quickly to the ocean. lol
This isn't just bad weather, it's terrible. We've had to evacuate some smaller towns and than a decent chunk of more than a few cities because of ridiculous flooding. Beyond that, an F5 Tornado destroyed a town just a couple weeks ago, leaving no house or building standing. Personally, I'd rather have nothing to talk about than to talk about this piss poor weather. Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Moo2K4 @ Jun 11 2008, 12:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This isn't just bad weather, it's terrible. We've had to evacuate some smaller towns and than a decent chunk of more than a few cities because of ridiculous flooding. Beyond that, an F5 Tornado destroyed a town just a couple weeks ago, leaving no house or building standing. Personally, I'd rather have nothing to talk about than to talk about this piss poor weather. Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?</div> It's really hot where I am, and a rainstorm nearly ruined a beach party over the weekend. Tragic! tornados, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes are nothing to laugh at. Nor are blizzards or wildfires. Good luck.
I have no idea. On an aside, this is just getting worse and worse. We're in a flood warning til NEXT FUCKING THURSDAY. The main transit highway in my area, I-380, is now closed, which is going to be an absolute disaster. Basically all of the downtown area of Cedar Rapids, which is close to my area of living, is completely flooded now. It's insane. And it's great, cause we're getting no fucking breaks either. It just keeps fucking raining and raining. I've never, ever seen anything like this, never.
In case anyone cares (which I'm assuming that, since you're all humans, you do), here's a link to a bunch of pictures and articles, so you can know what I'm currently going through. Iowa Flood of 2008
Moo you need to move to some tropical place like Miami. Our weather is awesome, and if you don't live close to the shore you'll be just fine during a hurricane. We don't get any tornadoes, snow, cold weather for long periods (even in winter), or hail.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (huevonkiller @ Jun 12 2008, 01:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Moo you need to move to some tropical place like Miami. Our weather is awesome, and if you don't live close to the shore you'll be just fine during a hurricane. We don't get any tornadoes, snow, cold weather for long periods (even in winter), or hail.</div> Miami sucks! Tampa Bay has less humidity and fewer hurricanes--not to mention superior beaches. And our baseball team is better!
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Dumpy @ Jun 12 2008, 01:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (huevonkiller @ Jun 12 2008, 01:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Moo you need to move to some tropical place like Miami. Our weather is awesome, and if you don't live close to the shore you'll be just fine during a hurricane. We don't get any tornadoes, snow, cold weather for long periods (even in winter), or hail.</div> Miami sucks! Tampa Bay has less humidity and fewer tornadoes--not to mention superior beaches. And our baseball team is better! </div> I'd rather live in Broward or Kendall. I also found the girls more attractive over here... Better beaches? How so? Well I also said a tropical place "like" Miami, so many places in Florida works. Miami doesn't have any tornadoes at all really... Not "fewer". I would agree that a Caucasian might find it more comfortable to live in Tampa though, since they might not want to learn Spanish and such. Those are some of the comments I hear, of course this is not a problem for me since I am Hispanic.
Believe me, I'd love to move elsewhere, especially now. Hell, I do have full intentions on likely moving to the west coast within in the next few years once I'm done with college. It's just highly unfortunate that I'm here right now, cause this is just fucking brutal. I'm just thankful I live nowhere near a body of water right now.
I know how you feel Moo, same type of crap weather here in IL. Tornado watch again in both states at the moment and the worst flooding in 15 years is just getting worse by the day. It doesn't help that tomorrow is bringing a cold front our way. This can only mean more tornadoes and worsening the flooding in your state and along the lake front from Wisconsin into Illinois. Did you read about that scout camp in Iowa that was demolished by a tornado last night? Four people are dead, likely all kids and around 40 injured. Did you see my post about the tornado that just missed my house last week?! Check these videos - Just a few minutes drive from my house. <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWp8M2RgmDc&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UWp8M2RgmDc&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zca9YF4lDFE&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zca9YF4lDFE&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1x47z1SAE-U&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1x47z1SAE-U&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div> This last video shows a few of the five tornadoes that touched down in the area last week on June 7, one of which was a half-mile wide. Thankfully no one was killed, but they caused plenty of damage when they crossed into the Chicago south suburbs. Most of the footage in the video below is actually 10 to 30 minutes to the south just before the system hit my neighborhood. <div><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/j2mRjGQZW3I&"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/j2mRjGQZW3I&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" /></embed></object></div>
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (M Two One @ Jun 12 2008, 02:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I know how you feel Moo, same type of crap weather here in IL. Tornado watch again in both states at the moment and the worst flooding in 15 years is just getting worse by the day. It doesn't help that tomorrow is bringing a cold front our way. This can only mean more tornadoes and worsening the flooding in your state and along the lake front from Wisconsin into Illinois. Did you read about that scout camp in Iowa that was demolished by a tornado last night? Four people are dead, likely all kids and around 40 injured. Did you see my post about the tornado that just missed my house last week?! Check these videos - Just a few minutes drive from my house. This last video shows a few of the five tornadoes that touched down in the area last week on June 7, one of which was a half-mile wide. Thankfully no one was killed, but they caused plenty of damage when they crossed into the Chicago south suburbs. Most of the footage in the video below is actually 10 to 30 minutes to the south just before the system hit my neighborhood.</div> Yea, I heard about the scout camp. This is just nuts. I guess, it's really hard to comprehend exactly what's happening right now. I never, in my life, thought I'd see something like this. It's just nuts. And it's continuing to get worse out here to M. Thankfully, where I'm at, the flooding is supposed to crest tomorrow, and it'll be about 25 feet or so. Iowa City isn't going to crest for another four or five days, and it's going to end up cresting at about 33 feet. Waterloo crested earlier this week, though I don't remember what it crested at. To put this in perspective, in 1993, our last bad flood, can't even compare to what we're seeing. Almost all the major crest levels are higher - Iowa City is going to destroy the record for there. In 1993, it crested at just over 28 feet, and as I mentioned, it's going to crest at at least 33 feet right now. And this is just part of it. We've been pummeled with tornadoes and severe thunderstorms all summer too. Parkersburg was demolished, that boyscout camp got hit, part of New Hartford got destroyed, and that's just what's been reported. I'm sure other things have happened, I just haven't seen it. Did I mention that we're also in a flood warning for another week, til June 19th. It's just ridiculous. I wouldn't go to say that I'm scared, but this surely is the most frightening weather I have EVER experienced.
One last thing I forgot to mention, we're having our "500 Year Flood" right now. Just to let you know how rare and unlikely this is, there is about a 0.2% chance of getting a flood like this.
And it just keeps getting worse. The Cedar River is now at 26ft in Cedar Rapids and could crest at 28ft, which is nearly 4ft higher than originally expected. Iowa City is getting worse too, with the crest potentially reaching 38ft, 5ft higher than initially expected. To make it worse, the Linn County jail is also apparently on fire, despite partially submerged in water. This weather, for lack of better words, is just fucking nuts.
