June 29 2012 Storm Damage

[Palehorse]

Went for a ride and took pics of the storm damage within a mile or so radius of us. Some of this is a LOT closer than that!

[Locutus]

Holy cow!  And that sort of severe damage had been reported across multiple states as well.  That heat fueled a hell of a lot of powerful storms. 

[Palehorse]

Holy cow!  And that sort of severe damage had been reported across multiple states as well.  That heat fueled a hell of a lot of powerful storms. 

Yup. And there are hundreds, possibly thousands, in Anderson alone who still have no power, and will not until sometime tomorrow at best.

And another round is headed our way right now. . . (Which is why I went out to document what was here from Friday). I didn't snap them all. There were at least a dozen more that I saw with crews at work cutting the trees down. . .

(The top 3 pictures and the last one are less than a block from my house!) 

[The Troll]

Yup. And there are hundreds, possibly thousands, in Anderson alone who still have no power, and will not until sometime tomorrow at best.

And another round is headed our way right now. . . (Which is why I went out to document what was here from Friday). I didn't snap them all. There were at least a dozen more that I saw with crews at work cutting the trees down. . .

(The top 3 pictures and the last one are less than a block from my house!) 

  It blew hard enough to bend my flag pole.  They said the pole was good for 70 mph winds.  Maybe a wet flag helped.  I watched it and for a moment I thought it was going to snap.   

[Henry Hawk]

I spent a good part of my Saturday picking up several medium sized branches that fell in my yard.  My neighbor has an enormous mess from a fairly large tree. 

[Bo D]

WASHINGTON - The ferocious storm that blew through the Washington-area Friday night is a weather system known as a derecho.

It is not only an unusual weather event for the region, but the circumstances surrounding the storm changed its pattern characteristics, according to ABC 7 Meterologist Mike Stinneford.

Derecho is a Spanish word that means 'straight.' It is in reference to the storm's powerful straight-line winds.

Derechos typically form along the top of a hot air mass and can move an average of 70 miles per hour. That wind speed is normally associated with a Category 1 hurricane.


More at ...

http://www.wtop.com/41/2925683/Science-behind-rare-derecho-storm-that-hit-Friday

[Locutus]

Olias is right and that storm is being termed a 'super derecho' because of its ferocity.  Here is an interesting time lapse graphic from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center showing the storm's march from Indiana to the mid-Atlantic seaboard.  From the graphic, it appears that Ohio and West Virginia bore the brunt of it. 

[Palehorse]

Olias is right and that storm is being termed a 'super derecho' because of its ferocity.  Here is an interesting time lapse graphic from the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center showing the storm's march from Indiana to the mid-Atlantic seaboard.  From the graphic, it appears that Ohio and West Virginia bore the brunt of it. 

We might as well get used to it. I am fairly certain that these types of events are now the norm, and they will only get worse. Extreme droughts that are only interrupted by violent storms. . . 

[Locutus]

I'm convinced that storm was republican. It had a lot of wind in the midwest, but when it got out east it blew even harder! 

I think the graphic demonstrates that quite nicely. 

[Bo D]

Pictures from the DC area.






More here ....
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=864&sid=2925313

[Locutus]

Here's another interesting derecho graphic which illustrates how likely you are to encounter a derecho depending on what area of the country you're in.  Down here in south Florida (since we're excluded from the map), we just call our derechos hurricanes. 

[Bo D]

Here's another interesting derecho graphic which illustrates how likely you are to encounter a derecho depending on what area of the country you're in.  Down here in south Florida (since we're excluded from the map), we just call our derechos hurricanes. 

I made it through two hurricanes - Isabel and Irene - and what I felt during this storm was definitely worse than either of those hurricanes. And all this damage was done in only about 15 minutes. 

[Locutus]

I made it through two hurricanes - Isabel and Irene - and what I felt during this storm was definitely worse than either of those hurricanes. And all this damage was done in only about 15 minutes. 

Yeah, I've been seeing posts and stuff on Facebook from all of my friends who live in that path, and they've all said pretty much the same thing.  Just look at the picture comparison from Palehorse's posts in Indiana and yours from the D.C. area.  It was pretty wicked from end to end, and everywhere in between.

[The Troll]

  If you guy like and use a lot of tomatoes, maybe you should do what I'm doing.  I stocking up on them, I like the petite diced tomatoes and I like Red Gold tomatoes grown here in Indiana.  I read somewhere that Red Gold had 20 thousand acres of tomatoes.  Red Gold is worried about the crop.   

  If their tomatoes are like mine which I have of a drip water system on.  I got beautiful plants, but the heat is cooking the blossoms and the blossom aren't producing tomatoes.   

[libby]

Yeah, I've been seeing posts and stuff on Facebook from all of my friends who live in that path, and they've all said pretty much the same thing.  Just look at the picture comparison from Palehorse's posts in Indiana and yours from the D.C. area.  It was pretty wicked from end to end, and everywhere in between.

I live on the Northern Virginia side of the Potomac and knew it was coming but saw or heard nothing until I heard a roaring sound which turned out to be strong wind plus lightening and thunder and things swirling around, but it passed quickly with no damage near my home (which is in what was once a forest -- we still have a lot of trees). My lights flickered on and off several times, once for about a minute or two, but then came back on. Some of the traffic lights are still dark, and thousands of people are still without power. Two people were killed just a few miles away in separate accidents when trees fell on their cars. As of late yesterday, there were still quite a few local roads with trees or parts of trees, some tangled up with power lines, blocking traffic.  Interesting unexpected consequence: I called Greyhound Bus Line about getting a ticket south for a relative, and was told that their main computer was down as a result of the storm and  they can't print tickets. Said the person would have to go to bus station and do it the old-fashioned way.