5944

It’s horrible to say, but the sirens are kind of lovely. With the distance and wind and multiple sources, they have a sort of resonance. Obviously I hope for zero injuries and zero property loss.

5945

Whoops, spoke too soon, now the wind is hitting 40+ mph. Shit might get real. Damn, there went the power as I typed. On the phone hotspot, I hope I haven’t read the radar wrong.

Edit: My house is right by the small airport rather than the big one and a plane just took off. Crazy fuckers.

Second Edit: All good, wind is down and electricity is down, but my burritos are already cooked, I have filthy amounts of flashlights and a siren serenade to waft me crost that gentle wabe auf morpheo’s shore.

5946

Glad you’re okay!

5947

Yikes. Scary stuff, man. Glad to hear you’re ok.

5948

Think i saw green lightning this morning. Almost got a photo of it. Strange green flashes in the sky.

5949

Green lightning? I guess we’ll have to see if this means that either aliens, elder gods return, or interdimensonal portal opens can be marked off on our 2022 bingo cards.

5950

I really wish I had stopped to record it. There were three groups of flashes and I was second away from slamming the brakes on.

I asked some people driving to work and they saw it as well. Trying to find a local social media site where people post random stuff in to see if there was an explanation.

5951

Disruptors can really mess you up, so I’m glad you avoided being in the crossfire.

5952

Did you see the actual lightning bolt or was it just the flash that you saw?

During hurricanes I typically see cyan/green flashes caused by the storms causing transformers to explode. So it could just be the thunderstorm caused transformers to blow, which caused that color in the night sky.

5953

I wonder if this is related to the “green flash” that sailors report seeing at sunset, maybe an artifact of a particular time of day when light is passing through the most atmosphere?

5954

This should help Chevy sell a ton of Silverados:

Taken by a storm chaser on March 21st in Elgin, TX. A Chevy Silverado is flipped by a tornado, spun around, then blown back onto it’s wheels, whereupon the driver calmly drives away.

5955

Yea you’re 100% safer in your truck than in your double wide if those are your options. That one video of the mobile home getting blown to bits almost casually, like the tornado was bored. You can actually see the coupe staying more or less in place while right behind it the trailer gets unravelled.

Also watching the insulation get vaporized by the suction and pulled out of the attic while stripping off the roof.

5956

Another nasty one looks like it hit New Orleans tonight. EF2 at least

5957
5958

Yeah thats crazy close to be capturing video.

More from an hour ago.

5959

I’d be too busy crapping my pants to record.

5960

Fixed that for ya.

5961

Never drive so fast in snow that you can’t come to a stop in an emergency. Case in point - today’s pile-up on i-81 in PA from a combo of heavy white-out snow squall and fog.

https://youtu.be/jU8BnFmEEmQ

The aftermath - the person who filmed the first video? Pretty sure you can see their car on the left

5962

People when it is that slick? SLOW THE FUCK DOWN!

I’ve been in conditions like that. If you’re goin on more than like 15, you are going too damn fast.

5963

Three people dead, I believe.

Ummmm… the people who got out of their cars, WTF? Especially as more truck-sized pieces of metal are flying around. If you’re getting out of the car, get the hell as far away from the road as possible. Don’t stand there in the road.