The Quack Shack

[duluthralphie]

Mother nature is both amazing and scarey. A massive supercell ripped through our region last night and when I say we were on the edge of it I am not even joking. This thing stretches for miles and we were lucky to miss it. The house we lived in 6 months ago and that is an hours drive east got severely demaged as did the small town there. So greatful no one was killed as houses were completely flattened. First pic is to show how close we got to it. The sunny bit went over our house.View attachment 2438561View attachment 2438562View attachment 2438562

That’s a massive wall cloud!

 

[rjohns39]

That’s a massive wall cloud!

Good morning Ralphie, have a great day

 

[duluthralphie]

Good morning Ralphie, have a great day

You too, mine would be better if a deer walked by in the next 10 minutes

 

[igorsMistress]

Good morning/evening everyone. Wunda so glad
that storm missed you!

 

[rjohns39]

Good morning/evening everyone. Wunda so glad
that storm missed you!

Good morning IM, have a great day

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Mother nature is both amazing and scarey. A massive supercell ripped through our region last night and when I say we were on the edge of it I am not even joking. This thing stretches for miles and we were lucky to miss it. The house we lived in 6 months ago and that is an hours drive east got severely demaged as did the small town there. So greatful no one was killed as houses were completely flattened. First pic is to show how close we got to it. The sunny bit went over our house.View attachment 2438561View attachment 2438562View attachment 2438562

That reminds me of my first thunderstorm i experienced in Texas: I was driving from Houston to Fort Worth when i saw a similar looking cloud-wall rolling through the sky towards me, somewhere around Waco. Then it started to rain so hard that i could not see the end of my own car in the outside mirrors and i decided to leave the highway at the next exit and wait it out. Found a little bridge on a county road and stopped under it, just before hail-stones, the size of baseballs started to fall from the ground.
I later learned from my concerned colleagues that this storm sparked several tornados…
Do you have tornados in Australia with those super-cells?
Glad you got spared this time.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Good Day, Afternoon, Evening, Night or Morning everybody, wherever you are!

 

[duluthralphie]

That reminds me of my first thunderstorm i experienced in Texas: I was driving from Houston to Fort Worth when i saw a similar looking cloud-wall rolling through the sky towards me, somewhere around Waco. Then it started to rain so hard that i could not see the end of my own car in the outside mirrors and i decided to leave the highway at the next exit and wait it out. Found a little bridge on a county road and stopped under it, just before hail-stones, the size of baseballs started to fall from the ground.
I later learned from my concerned colleagues that this storm sparked several tornados…
Do you have tornados in Australia with those super-cells?
Glad you got spared this time.

They have tornadoes, but they rotate clockwise whereas ours rotate counterclockwise. Weatherdork in my made me say that.

However, I bet they call them something else, like “blowy sucky blow me house down”.

I have been watching Aus tv and movies lately so I am learning the language.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

They have tornadoes, but they rotate clockwise whereas ours rotate counterclockwise. Weatherdork in my made me say that.

However, I bet they call them something else, like “blowy sucky blow me house down”.

I have been watching Aus tv and movies lately so I am learning the language.

Weeelll - according to the Bureau of Meteorology it is spelled Tornado/Tornadoes, but i am sure the pronunciation will be very different…
Tropical storms are called »Willy Willies« down-under.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

@duluthralphie how can you watch Aussie-TV in Minnesota?

And i have a Weatherdork living inside me too! He just learned more letters of the Greek alphabet this year…