View Full Version : Dayyyyum that downdraft in Tulsa...
BudSooner
6/6/2006, 05:42 PM
this morning was a bad mutha, some pretty old trees are now nice mulch for some gardens.
I tried going south on Harvard around 4pm and the street was still blocked off...it's going to be a long night for people without power trying to get AEP to fix those downed lines.
BudSooner
6/6/2006, 06:05 PM
Tulsa had a downdraft around 6am this morning that blew down trees in the area of 11th to 31st between lewis to yale.
Downdraft-A small-scale column of air that rapidly sinks toward the ground, usually accompanied by precipitation as in a shower or thunderstorm.
weird, that doesn't sound like something that would take out trees :eek:
i used to live in that area, like 26th and Florence
oumartin
6/6/2006, 06:19 PM
sure it wasn't a subsidence?
My sister works in the midtown area and they were without power all day. No idea when they are getting it back and she may have to work through the weekend to make up lost production.(She's the editor for Oklahoma magazine) Not sure why I told you that except that she may get to miss our family reunion this weekend and I am jealous.
StoopTroup
6/6/2006, 06:45 PM
I was at 21st and Yale at 5:45 am.
It was like a Hurricane.
hurricane'bone
6/6/2006, 06:47 PM
A NWS meterologist said it was very similar to a low strength hurricane.
StoopTroup
6/6/2006, 06:53 PM
I thought I was gonna see Anderson Cooper go flying by at 15th and Yale.
Lightning hit the transformer there and the Street lights and everything west of Yale went black in an instant.
JohnnyMack
6/6/2006, 08:39 PM
I got the day off work!
My building is without power because of the storm. Say it should be restored anywhere from 11pm tonight to 6am Thursday morning. Here's hoping it's the latter.
Linky
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/tulsa_060606.htm
picasso
6/6/2006, 09:41 PM
Channel 2 was live at noon right across the street from my gf's house. Large tree fell and smashed a car.
JohnnyMack
6/6/2006, 09:55 PM
Channel 2 was live at noon right across the street from my gf's house. Large tree fell and smashed a car.
Was Merritt's damaged?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
:eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie:
picasso
6/6/2006, 09:59 PM
Was Merritt's damaged?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
:eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie: :eddie:
hope so! that place is gonna kill me.:D
JohnnyMack
6/6/2006, 10:01 PM
hope so! that place is gonna kill me.:D
I think I'll do some recon on that place tomorrow morning, you know, make sure it's alright.
picasso
6/6/2006, 10:02 PM
I think I'll do some recon on that place tomorrow morning, you know, make sure it's alright.
haha, man it's hard to go in there and not buy it up.
SoonerInKCMO
6/6/2006, 10:04 PM
Tulsa had a downdraft around 6am this morning that blew down trees in the area of 11th to 31st between lewis to yale.
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
IS CLOUD 9 OK?!?!?!?!
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
scaldeddawg
6/6/2006, 10:16 PM
Man, that was some kinda wind.
Now multiply that by 1 and a half.........and for 3 hours constantly. And make a path 100 miles wide. Then you get a hurricane.
My house:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6972/katrina33zo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3596/katrina43cj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
scaldeddawg
6/6/2006, 10:23 PM
Oh and add 8 feet of water too! :-)
Not my house but similar:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/5706/under9nk.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
olevetonahill
6/6/2006, 10:46 PM
lid was in tulsa today
Dayum them :texan: s suck
OUinFLA
6/6/2006, 11:02 PM
dayum scalded, that takes waterfront property to an unwanted level.
mdklatt
6/6/2006, 11:33 PM
You'd think the hills would have diverted the wind.
olevetonahill
6/6/2006, 11:40 PM
I'm embarrassed . Ya ll didn't think My Lid :texan: joke was funny ?
I hang my head in shame :P
picasso
6/7/2006, 12:38 AM
You'd think the hills would have diverted the wind.
dude, I crapped bigger hills than what you have in Norman. Western Kansas with trees.:D
Okla-homey
6/7/2006, 05:21 AM
Man, that was some kinda wind.
Now multiply that by 1 and a half.........and for 3 hours constantly. And make a path 100 miles wide. Then you get a hurricane.
My house:
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6972/katrina33zo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/3596/katrina43cj.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
yeah but Slickdaddy,
Remember, you people in hurricane country have about a week's warning. "Ladies and gentlemen, be advised, in 5 days now, hurricane Boner will make landfall at Shrimpville, MS at 1100pm and models indicate it will track north-northeast from there, etc." IOW, if a person gets hurt or killed in a hurricane, its their own dayum fault.
Tornaders and micro-bursts are difficult to predict more than a few minutes before they hammer someplace. That's why I think they are scarier.
scaldeddawg
6/7/2006, 07:43 AM
yeah but Slickdaddy,
Remember, you people in hurricane country have about a week's warning. "Ladies and gentlemen, be advised, in 5 days now, hurricane Boner will make landfall at Shrimpville, MS at 1100pm and models indicate it will track north-northeast from there, etc." IOW, if a person gets hurt or killed in a hurricane, its their own dayum fault.
Tornaders and micro-bursts are difficult to predict more than a few minutes before they hammer someplace. That's why I think they are scarier.
Yeah, that is right. I GTFO of here a day before all hell broke loose. I've been in an F1 tornado too and I was more terrified then. Grabbed the nearest blonde girl and layed on the floor. (haha)
lid was in tulsa today
Dayum them :texan: s suck
heh
Pricetag
6/7/2006, 08:26 AM
It looked on the news like the Himalaya at Bell's bought the farm.
Do you wanna go faster?
It looked on the news like the Himalaya at Bell's bought the farm.
Do you wanna go faster?
Zingo suffered some damage as well.....and some kind of merry-go-round thing. And Big Splash.
OklahomaTuba
6/7/2006, 09:52 AM
I've never seen so many split trees. That was one hell of a storm.
About five years ago there was a downburst in NW OKC.
A buddy and I were going to see some Adam Sandler movie. When we pulled up to the theatre, every car in the parking lot had their windows smashed out. No power on that whole side of the highway. The people in the theatre said it sounded like lightning struck the building or something.
Totally surreal.
Okla-homey
6/7/2006, 01:07 PM
For the record, they are properly called micro-bursts people.
That is all.
NormanPride
6/7/2006, 01:19 PM
Thank you, professor Homey! :D
Yeah, it was like Oklahoma said "Well, this has been a relatively mild spring... THERE ya go!"
mdklatt
6/7/2006, 01:28 PM
For the record, they are properly called micro-bursts people.
That is all.
Only if they're 2 miles or less in diameter. :cool:
BudSooner
6/7/2006, 01:45 PM
For the record, they are properly called micro-bursts people.
That is all.
Ah, oh well thats what I get for watching Frank Mitchell on ch 8.
picasso
6/7/2006, 03:48 PM
went by Camden's house at lunch today. her place was right in the middle of it. unbelievable the amount of downed trees and debris. crazy stuff.
hurricane'bone
6/7/2006, 03:50 PM
Did Big Al's Health Food make it?
BudSooner
6/7/2006, 06:25 PM
Dunno, it was right in the area that was hit the hardest.
I was going that way(up harvard from 15th)and didn't notice, but that church on the west side of the street got slammed.....ripped a good portion of the roof off.
Bells was also hit very hard...its amazing more homes were not damaged.
It looked on the news like the Himalaya at Bell's bought the farm.
:eek:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! :(
BudSooner
6/7/2006, 07:17 PM
The himalaya....what a great ride to be drunk on. this i DO know from experience.
Btw-this was on the first date with my future wife :D
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