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The afternoon's storm
Sir Edward:
Yikes, we had quite the storm roll through here. We got evacuated to the basement at work for a while, since there was a tornado warning. One of my servers at home yanks radar data all day long, and it grabbed this one showing the warning zone extending to the bay:
http://www.necrobones.net/cgi-bin/weatherradar.pl?date=1212606300
Sword Chick:
It was exciting all right. The worst of it only lasted about 5 minutes here. My two barometers (Grover and Cookie) went to go hide as the rain was coming down horizontally. Tommy and I were listening to WTOP and heard the Emergency Broadcast System actually work (not test mode.) Doug Hill, longtime local meteorologist, said he had never seen a line of storms like that in this area before. Arlington Public Schools had several schools lose power and phone service and sent out an emergency bulletin that if you had a child in an after school activity to please go pick him up.
That is so very cool that you got a shot of the radar! It's in the front bow, the red area, that rotation was showing up on radar.
Glad you are okay!
Sword Chick:
--- Quote ---NWS reports that a second round of strong thunderstorms will be passing over
Northern Virginia between 7 and 11 pm tonight. It will be less severe than the
storm this afternoon, but cautions should be taken.
The tornado watch remains in effect until 8pm.
OEM/LCS
Sent by Arlington County OEM to All users (e-mail, cell phones) through
Arlington Alert
--- End quote ---
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! :D
mortuary3:
Roanoke actullay had a small tornado touch down last night.....ooooo....aaaaaa,,,, no injuries report luckily.
Sword Chick:
We have wires and trees down all over Arlington. There were a few reports of tornadoes in the DC area, nothing official yet.
We just finished the second round of storms. Tommy and I were at Scouts with water coming in the church from a flooded stairwell. Chris and Mark were at home manning the pump for our flooded stairwell.
Weather forecast is for a third line to come through later tonight.
Quite exciting. Off to class, should be a fun drive. :)
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