Hurricane-force winds damage area; Northland hit hard

[proud2BlibKansan]

Source: The Kansas City Star


By ROBERT A. CRONKLETON
The Kansas City Star


Hurricane-force winds swept through the Kansas City area damaging trees, power lines and buildings.

The hardest hit area was the Northland area, where at least three people were reported injured in the Gladstone area, said Noelle Runyan, senior forecaster with the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Mo.

There have been no reports of fatalities, but there are reports of widespread tree and power line damage with many people without power. In addition, the strong winds damaged many houses and other structures. Authorities have closed many streets because of the damage and debris in roadways.

Runyan said the strong winds were part of a second round of storms that moved through the Kansas City metropolitan area over night.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/602007.html

[ruby slippers]

1. Sadly, the news doesn't seem to report much on these stories. Already

Virginia is out of the news cycle. Remember when the country used to rally behind natural disasters and help the people and all? Seems like now you are on your own and it is s common occurance anymore.

I'm just glad no one was killed thus far.

[Delphinus]

3. Isn't that the truth!

I don't have cable, so admit I have a hard time keeping up with other things - but just the other day, I went to theweatherchannel.com and realized there's flooding in Iowa!

[lapfog_1]

2. And, as usual, CNN had a "developing story" banner

on their website saying that tornadoes had damaged homes in KANSAS!!!

Now it says Kansas City.

It would seem that most of the country really doesn't know that "Kansas City" is mostly in Missouri, not Kansas.

[Clear Blue Sky]

7. The CNN folks read what's on the teleprompter that is in front of them.

If the teleprompter said Kansas City was in Maine, they would say that with conviction.

[lapfog_1]

9. True, but this was on the "breaking news" banner on the

website, not on air (I don't watch CNN anymore).

Whoever first wrote it (if you clicked on it, it showed a video of homes damaged in Gladstone, MO) had no idea that Kansas City wasn't entirely in Kansas.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Actually the metro area is split fairly evenly down the state line

and there is a Kansas City in Missouri and a Kansas City in Kansas. The MO city is bigger.

[lapfog_1]

19. I grew up in the heart of Johnson County

and there are two Kansas Cities... Kansas City KS (where my mom worked for 25 years) and KCMO (where I worked after college). Of the two Kansas Cities, KCMO has the "downtown" with tall buildings, the sports complex, the convention centers, etc.

KC KS had next to nothing to compare.

The suburbs are different, Overland Park, Shawnee, etc (now to include Olathe and Bonner Springs) were always more upscale and "newer" than suburbs in MO... they had the better malls and schools and such.

Anyway, the tornado hit in MO not in KS and the attached video shows that.

The banner was wrong and they eventually corrected it. But the first thing I think of when someone says tornadoes in Kansas... and it's near KC, I think of my childhood home, not someplace halfway between KCMO downtown and the MCI airport.

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. There was a touchdown in Kansas too

We were up northeast of Topeka last night and watched the storms. We heard one touched down in Tonganoxie after we left.

[lapfog_1]

22. Oh I don't doubt that...

I had a tornado go directly over our house when I was a kid... complete with the train noise, etc. Fortunately it touched down a few miles to our east and destroyed about a dozen homes.

But the CNN banner was talking about homes destroyed "in Kansas" and the video (live report) wasn't in Kansas. About 10 minutes later, the banner said "Kansas City" but was otherwise the same.

Anyway, just a pet peeve of mine since I was 5 years old (we Kansans living near KC always had a chip on our shoulder about KCMO and how the nation understands things)

[HeeBGBz]

4. We in the southern MO area got hit too

Okay at my house but there are trees, powerlines/poles down everywhere just 2 miles south of here in Forsyth. It just missed me. Possible tornado damage in Ava to the east.

[MuseRider]

11. Glad you are OK.

We have a cousin in Forstyth. I guess we need to call him and check if he is OK.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. We were close to you last night

We went up to Camp Gaea, north of Lawrence, to see the Native Americans on the Longest Walk. The camp is up on a hill and we watched the storms move in. It was a gorgeous site but scary too.

[laylah]

12. Glad to hear you are

okay. My folks lived in Kissee Mills for a few years after Dad retired. Very beautiful area.

[liberal N proud]

5. Lot of friends & family live in that area

Hope everyone is safe.

[Divernan]

6. I was on phone to friend in KCMO last night when the warning siren went off there.

She said it was the first time it had gone off since she moved there a couple of years ago. It was frightening just hearing it over the phone.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. The cops went door to door telling people to take cover

I have lived here all my life and have never known the cops to do that EVER.

[ruby slippers]

8. wonder how much the weather modification team was working last night? link....

Article written in 2007, talks about food shortages, too.....hmmmmm

http://www.newswithviews.com/Peterson/rosalind8.htm

[MuseRider]

10. Those were some freaky storms last night.

I spent several hours in the basement while limbs and other crap went flying all around. Warnings here but no actual touchdown that I can find out about.

You OK? Nothing bad closer to your neck of the woods?

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. I lost a little tree

Actually it is a bush as large as a tree. And I couldn't find my cat this morning. Other than that, I am okay. Glad you are okay as well.

[MuseRider]

23. Turns out

I lost one of the cupolas on my barn. Gone, no sign of it. Big stuff was moved very far from where it was. It was a nasty wind.

Sorry about your bush. Is your kitty back? One of mine was out last night and he was waiting for me at the barn and he was covered with mud. Odd thing.

The rotation here was powerful. You just never know.

[madrchsod]

13. there`s a guy plowing the field across the street

and it`s going to rain in buckets in a few minutes....a really nice looking cell just a few miles away...

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. I'm right up where it hit in the Northland.

Woke up at 2 AM to a loud roar. Rain and wind so bad I couldn't see across the street. Power went out so I was just kind of stuck sitting in the dark hoping the house didn't blow over. But my neighborhood came out of it OK. Just a couple of trees down.

But north of me at 72nd and North Oak it was a disaster. A pawn shop just collapsed. And Marguaritas Restaurant was badly damaged and so was the First Bank of Missouri. Lots of power lines down up that way.

Haven't heard of any deaths - a couple of injuries, I think.

Yep. It was a doozy. They said on the news that the damage was from straightline winds of about 80 mph.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. A co-worker lives a block from the worst damage

I am sure glad everyone is okay. I haven't heard about any injuries. Hope it stays that way.

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. I drove up to Highway 290 and 108th this morning.

I have a customer there and was really worried about them. They are saying that was an F-2 to F-3 that hit.

Wasn't nearly as bad as I had feared - at least right where I was. My customer's house looked unscathed but lots of houses there had roof damage. A couple had windows all boarded up. Lots of blue roof tarps. But the houses at least looked intact.

I have other customers up near 72nd and North Oak and 78th and N. Euclid - that got hit really hard, too. I think those were straight line winds but I'm not sure. That may have been a tornado, too.

The last one of those storms to hit up here was about 6 years ago. Hopefully, this is it for another six years.

Don't happen very often but when they do they are real doozies. It is very scary. Especially when they hit in the middle of the night like that. And none of the sirens went off.