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bigun said:
Was that where the big yellow building was?
I'm trying to remember the town out east that was pretty much wiped off the map. All the news people tried to claim they were first on site, but it was a Ham radio storm chase team
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You are probably thinking of the big furniture store that got hit on that corner.

Holly CO is way out east and I think it was smeared pretty good in the early 2000s. Windsor took a helluva hit around the same time but it's to the north.

Weather man says more shit headed our way tonight.
 
Confirmed tornado about 1.5 miles from my mom’s house, wife and kids happen to be there too. Hope it goes the other way, but if it does it hits town. Shit.
 
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Caught it as it was going back up in the sky after it almost touched down about 1/4 mile south of our building.
Nader caught a windmill north of us about 20 miles, if I find the video of it taking one out I’ll share it, was on a coworker’s Facebook
 
No naders here but we are supposed to get 60-80mph winds. It just got really dark and is pouring rain. We’ve already had around 6” of rain in the last 4-5 days
 
I'm guessing the Nader that hit Iowa was from the storm that hit us last night. I took my wife to work this morning because I was afraid of our country roads being washed out. When we got to town almost every north facing window was broken and they had plow trucks out removing the hail from last night. People were reporting 4"" + diameter hail. We counted 21 windshields broken at my wife's job. Luckily just a shitload of rain at our house.
 
When we lived in Yoder, CO., I could watch the funnels start to spin up to the north of us and take off eastbound. I could call my dad up and and tell him a nader would be there in a day or so. Sure enough, that same storm would rattle some windows and snap some branches.
 
WhiteTrash303 said:
I'm guessing the Nader that hit Iowa was from the storm that hit us last night. I took my wife to work this morning because I was afraid of our country roads being washed out. When we got to town almost every north facing window was broken and they had plow trucks out removing the hail from last night. People were reporting 4"" + diameter hail. We counted 21 windshields broken at my wife's job. Luckily just a shitload of rain at our house.
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Saw this earlier, no thank you!

 
blakes said:
Are naders happing more frequently now, or are we just hearing about em more?
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I have had this theory for a couple decades now. Just more people being affected by all these "natural disasters".

When parts of Sacramento flooded back in the 90's it was huge news. But there were entire new developments built in the flood plain, so yeah, must be global warming, not stupid developers and bought politicians and planners.
 
blakes said:
Are naders happing more frequently now, or are we just hearing about em more?
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I'm betting more phones, more access to information, better radars, so you hear more about them. Add in constant news cycle and we need to be in a constant existential crisis/state of emergency disaster hype, just adding to it.
 
Slander said:
I'm betting more phones, more access to information, better radars, so you hear more about them. Add in constant news cycle and we need to be in a constant existential crisis/state of emergency disaster hype, just adding to it.
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Yep. It took a body count for flyover country naders to hit the national news 30 years ago. Now anytime the wind blows over 50mph there’s a palm-sweaty news blurb to spout superstorm and some “expert” to blather on about climate change. Same frequency.
Of course, dollar value of destruction has gone up because dollar value has gone down. In inflation adjusted dollars it’s flat or lower.
 
blakes said:
Are naders happing more frequently now, or are we just hearing about em more?
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Local weather guy, retired now, is not a global warming guy whatsoever. Very objective.

He's got a blog with a lot of interesting weather (and other random stuff) info that he posts pretty regularly.

Naders were way below normal last year, all around the country. This year there's been more, possibly above average. I don't recall the latest statistic he gave and it was before this last batch.

He also keeps track of the ACE index for hurricanes. It is virtually unchanged over the last few decades. It is a measure of the energy released by all hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. Someone breaks it up by region as well.

So what it comes down to is 24 hour news and weather channels that need to drive ratings. Bad weather drives ratings. Same reason they name winter storms now.
 
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