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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 13 April 2006 11:26 PM

Just checking in tonight - just got back online. We've had a great number of tornadic/severe thunderstorms through our AO tonight and we've been in the basement much of the evening.

Ah, Iowa. At least its not Kansas. Didn't see any flying monkeys or Margaret Hamilton outside the window.

Oh, no damage here but all around us tornado damage reports coming in. Apparently a Wal-Mart in Iowa City and a home improvement store may have been hit. More tornadoes to our east right now.

OK, as I'm typing this its sounding worse and worse. The Red Cross has been called in just outside Cedar Rapids. Many roofs off and houses collapsed. More reports trickling in and its not over yet to our east.

This may hit the national news tonight/tomorrow.

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Michelle
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posted 13 April 2006 11:33 PM

That's really wild, AE. I hope you and your family are doing well. I would find that pretty scary.

BTW, you might want to rethink Southern Ontario if you want to avoid tornadoes! Although we don't really get them in Toronto or anything. Although I think we got one last summer on the outskirts.

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obscurantist
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posted 13 April 2006 11:38 PM

Geez. That sounds scary. I hope you'll be okay, AE. Please keep us posted on the other forum if you can.

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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 13 April 2006 11:45 PM

We apparently "rode the slot" as I like to put with the worst of the storms sliding just to our north and south. We had 3/4 inch hail at one point and 2 1/2 inches of rain but no damage in the neigbourhood.

Update: downtown Iowa City and the sprawling Coral Ridge Mall have apparently been hit by a tornado. The University of Iowa hospitals have called in their disaster teams. Much news of wreckage of homes and businesses and injuries and people trapped. This worst part is about 20-25 miles to my south.

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Michelle
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posted 18 April 2006 12:45 AM

Hope you're doing all right now, AE. I've been in kind of a news blackout this weekend so I haven't been following this storm. How's Iowa now?

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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 18 April 2006 10:07 AM

Everything is great now except in Iowa City which is still cleaning up the damage to the downtown University area and the outlying mall/shopping district. It was the first time that city had been hit by a spate of tornadoes as far back as anyone can remember - at least 50 years, so this was new to them.

We were placed under a tornado watch on Sunday but it was too cool for twisters but our Easter was extremely rainy.

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nister
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posted 18 April 2006 10:47 AM

My city, Barrie, was hit in '85. Nine deaths, including the son of a friend who wouldn't take shelter in a stranger's house. Our family home was narrowly spared..we live adjacent to Barrie Raceway, which was hard hit, with many horses dying. One large boat was deposited on land a mile from its anchorage, with its huge concrete anchor and chain still affixed.

I want to "top" all our maples this year..I fear that the storms wracking the Gulf this season will sweep all the way to the Great Lake region.

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Américain Égalitaire
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posted 18 April 2006 11:18 AM

nister - was that tornadoes or straight line winds? Tornadoes in Barrie? I wouldn't have thought it likely but I guess its possible.

Hell with the way the climate is going anything is possible now.

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oldgoat
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posted 18 April 2006 11:33 AM

It was a tornado AE. Quite rare, but you do get the odd tornado around here. More common in SW Ontario. Ours usually don't pack the whollop of the ones you guys get in the mid west. I recall the one nister was referring to though. It was a freak biggie.

Glad you're ok AE.

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nister
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posted 18 April 2006 02:46 PM

AE, there were several tornadoes that day, but the largest set down on Highway 400 and wrapped some cars with median fence like wrapping a steak with bacon. Tornadoes are rather common in the London area, southwest of Toronto. The tornado that hit Edmonton in the '90's cut a mile-wide swath through town.

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