Bravo
Well-Known Member
- Aug 27, 2004
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Well dammit.
We are sitting here at about 7:00 with cocktails.
The wife and I hear a deep thunderclap. I go outside and bring in our awning.
Probably just a passing rumbler.
Ten minutes later she is on the phone with her sister and I look out the front windows and it is just zero visibility and coming straight at us.
We have french doors in the front and the wind is coming so strong in the crack between them that I think they are going to blow open.
And this is really weird because this dude is coming from the Southeast - not the West or Southwest. You learn these things living around tornados.
Tornados - 90% of the time track due east or northeast. So you learn to look for bad weather coming from the west- southwest.
I get her off the phone and grab the liitle one and we run to the bathroom and get in the shower. I have NO basement. I am on a ridge of solid rock.
Outside it is hailing - which in the southeast is somewhat unusual. We don't have hailstorms like out west.
Five minutes later - all gone.
Back to the TV.
Then, time to run to the store for a quick errand.
The tree that partially blew down over my driveway in Hurricane (Tropical Storm by the time it got to us) Dennis - is completely down over the drive.
WTF. So I drive over the yard.
I get 100 yards down the street. Blocked due to a tree down.
Go back the other way...power line partially down. Drive around it.
Go down about two miles to get out of the area to the grocery store. Huge trees down. Six feet (2M) in diameter.
I think my brother is going to pop if I ask him to borrow the chainsaw again.
Time to pony up for one of my own.
Anybody got any recommendations out there on a good chainsaw?
We are sitting here at about 7:00 with cocktails.
The wife and I hear a deep thunderclap. I go outside and bring in our awning.
Probably just a passing rumbler.
Ten minutes later she is on the phone with her sister and I look out the front windows and it is just zero visibility and coming straight at us.
We have french doors in the front and the wind is coming so strong in the crack between them that I think they are going to blow open.
And this is really weird because this dude is coming from the Southeast - not the West or Southwest. You learn these things living around tornados.
Tornados - 90% of the time track due east or northeast. So you learn to look for bad weather coming from the west- southwest.
I get her off the phone and grab the liitle one and we run to the bathroom and get in the shower. I have NO basement. I am on a ridge of solid rock.
Outside it is hailing - which in the southeast is somewhat unusual. We don't have hailstorms like out west.
Five minutes later - all gone.
Back to the TV.
Then, time to run to the store for a quick errand.
The tree that partially blew down over my driveway in Hurricane (Tropical Storm by the time it got to us) Dennis - is completely down over the drive.
WTF. So I drive over the yard.
I get 100 yards down the street. Blocked due to a tree down.
Go back the other way...power line partially down. Drive around it.
Go down about two miles to get out of the area to the grocery store. Huge trees down. Six feet (2M) in diameter.
I think my brother is going to pop if I ask him to borrow the chainsaw again.
Time to pony up for one of my own.
Anybody got any recommendations out there on a good chainsaw?