Everyone ok?

[xmas74]

We've had three thunderstorm warnings, golfball size hail and one tornado ride the skirts of town.

Just want to make sure everyone has come out fine today!

[ccjlld]

1. We had high winds

and hail that was bigger than golf balls but smaller than baseballs. Lots of damage to our new siding on the back and west end of our house. We're in Columbia. My In-laws in Harrisburg didn't have any trouble. I've got co-workers in New Franklin and in Fayette but I don't know yet if they rode through without any damage or injuries.

My sister is in Lawrence and from what she says, the storm hit there pretty hard early this morning. Woke her up and scared her to death, she lives in a mobile home. From the pictures I saw, I'm pretty thankful that she's ok and think that we were pretty lucky here that the worst my husband and I had to deal with was hail.

[xmas74]

13. We had touchdowns.

[HeeBGBz]

2. Had plenty of weather yesterday

Expecting Round 2 in a couple of hours.

Here's what 4-10 (drifts?) inches of ice balls look like on a 78 degree day.



After an under-reported tornado near Branson, MO yesterday.



Broke a bunch of windows and took out both my side mirrors and tailight. Luckily the car windows held up. The house windows didn't.

[xmas74]

14. We had more than enough weather for everyone yesterday.

Sounds like your day wasn't a good one.

[Gogi]

3. Everything's gone to the north and south of me so far. eom

[xmas74]

15. It went straight through us.

[AllegroRondo]

4. Had some hail last night,

and the creeks are running really high this morning, but alls well.

[xmas74]

7. Property damage in my area.

And someone is believed missing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Just had TV interrupted

by the almost constant weather alerts to bad weather that was miles and miles away from me. They even interrupted HBO in the middle of The Sopranos! We were rained on briefly at our weekly protest on The Plaza yesterday. The sirens kept going off and the TV guys were on red alert but we didn't even have any rain at our house. And no wind to speak of.

I fully expect to be conditioned to ignore the constant bad weather alerts by the first day of spring next week. Unless of course the weather guys learn to stop crying wolf every time it clouds up outside. I sure wish they would go back to a scroll across the bottom of the screen instead of interrupting TV programming.

[xmas74]

6. We had to take cover six times.

We had numerous touchdowns yesterday.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. The last time a tornado hit here, the one guy who died

was out in his yard looking up at the sky.

Most of us don't take cover. They deluge us with warnings when the sky is clear. I really get angry at the media over this. While you guys were being pounded last night, it was fine here. But they had to interrupt every TV show to let everyone in a 100 mile radius know there were storms? Why can't they just do a scroll across the bottom of the screen like they used to do?

[xmas74]

9. I don't know.

The woman who died in Sedalia was crushed under her trailer while trying to get to shelter away from the path of the tornado. And the man in Urich was crushed under his house.

There was no reason for your cable company to cut in for our crap. Maybe it's the classic JoCo,MO and JoCo,KS screwup?

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. It's a regional thing

Do you get KC TV down there? That would explain our local stations doing weather alerts for your area. But cable? HBO? I though that was ridiculous. And I didn't appreciate The Sopranos being interrupted for weather alerts.

On the other hand, I do feel badly for people who were affected by the storms. So I probably shouldn't be complaining about my TV being interrupted. Sorry if I am coming off as insensitive.

[xmas74]

11. We get all the KC channels-

Columbia considers us to be too close to your area to cover us. Johnson Co adjoins Jackson-if you leave Johnson on the west side you immediately enter Lone Jack, which is Eastern Jackson Co. And we have more and more commuters moving into Johnson every year from Jackson for the cheaper property rates. Of course, they are now raising the property rates and are quickly pushing Johnson into a Class A county(same rank as Cass, Jackson, Platte, etc).
But for your cable system to cut in seems strange. We have Charter and they only override if it affects Johnson Co-no other counties in the area. If JoCo has a warning it completely overrides all programming for our local channel that plays the update from NOAA.

They have to have the weather interrupt all programming. Katie Horner has to prove that she is earning her keep w/ her 14 hour tornado telethons.

[usregimechange]

12. Yep, the family sat in the middle hallway for a half hour just in case

[xmas74]

16. We were in the basement for a number of hours.

The warnings were, at one point, one on top of the other.