Can any of you recall a worse season for tornadoes?

[layinwood]

Well for starters it's a good place to hide from a tornado. Now just when I was growing up the basement was where the washer and dryer was, plus the wood furnace and stacked wood was down there (wouldn't need that in Texas), people also stored things down there or had canned goods down there as well, the old Finlanders up here would have saunas in their basements, my dad was a Finlander and going to Grammas house when it was 30 below was a luxury just to get in the sowwwnah.

Only draw backs was a musty smell, chance of flooding every 5 years or so, and good place for mice.

I've lived her for all my life(39 years) and I've never seen a tornado so even thought it "could" happen I'm not spending the money for it. I have a better chance of being hurt in a car or riding my bike. My washer and dryer is in the wash room by itself. I have a big window in the room so it's always fresh and has a lot of sunlight. I don't think I would be big on any where that could be dark, musty, smell and for sure a place that was good for mice.

Saying all of that, I wouldn't mind having one if it was really nice.

 

[layinwood]

No basement? Where in the hell is your man cave then? :shrug:

Media room.

 

[bleedingpurple]

No basement? Where in the hell is your man cave then? :shrug:

My whole place is my man cave. Living room :0074

 

[bleedingpurple]

I

Saying all of that, I wouldn't mind having one if it was really nice.

Yeah the newer ones are nice. The basement i was talking about was from a house built in the early 1900s. They don't make em like that anymore.
Buddy of mine has his family room in his basement, nice carpeted, Keg fridge, WII, PS 3, Big Screen, Ticket..
Very nice..

 

[bleedingpurple]

Global warming :shrug:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm

Not like this wasn't predicted.

 

[Destructor D]

Tornado on the ground in Sedalia, MO. Heading right for their high school!

Had a tornado touched down just 2 miles from my meeting just minutes ago!

 

[Destructor D]

Right on Highway 50 right now! This could get ugly. Sedalia isn't Joplin, but it's decent size.

Joplin is awful. Just a couple hours from me.

 

[yyz]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070830105911.htm

Not like this wasn't predicted.

The only flaw? They predicted far less storms than we were having at the time. We have been getting two/three times as many!

 

[MadJack]

Huge storm hitting here now. Sirens sounding and everybody in the house watching it approach. I don't hardly remember waiting for and watching for storms like this before. Crazy!

Then we have a huge front coming in at 7pm for an hour or so and then the big one at 1am to 4am. I guess not much sleep tonight.

The generator is fueled and grounded and ready.

opcorn2

 

[IE]

http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KIND/1105252041.wfus53.html

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 58 AND 71.

 

[IE]

http://kamala.cod.edu/svr/

 

[MadJack]

That one sent us to the basement. power is out and so is the sun. time to drag the generator out.

 

[MadJack]

Internet down except on phone. Glad I got the generator. :SIB

 

[IE]

Glad I got the generator. :SIB

thats for sure !

 

[bleedingpurple]

Nothing makes the hair stand on the back of your neck more than when the air is eerily silent and those low rolling black clouds roll in and then the wind starts picking up just like the Wicked Witch of the West. Stay safe you guys down there!!

 

[IE]

not over yet...

TORNADO WATCH 368 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING.

http://www.therepublic.com/weather/

 

[IE]

looks like your area was hardest hit for power outage's, Jack.

http://www.duke-energy.com/indiana/outages/current.asp#outagemap

 

[MadJack]

looks like your area was hardest hit for power outage's, Jack.

http://www.duke-energy.com/indiana/outages/current.asp#outagemap

Been here 6 years and this is first time electric went down. Another storm moving in soon.

 

[yyz]

I hope these storms are almost done for the year. This is too much for all of you guys.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Its a ground stability issue. We here in the Upper Midwest have thick topsoil with a good amount of clay in it which drains well.
You get down south and the ground is sandy and not as dense as it is here so drainage and stability would be issues with a basement.
Frost depth is a part of it, too. Where I'm at i had to sink the footings for the deck I built last year 42 inches to get below the frost line so the footings don't heave with the freezing/thawing cycles.

http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/basements/msg0716161730578.html

Excellent answer and spot on. :0074

The sirens went off for the first time here today as the tornados were all around KC today. Looks like Sedalia got smacked this time. We got 1 1/4" of rain in about 15 minutes where our business is.