Re: [CH] Tornado, Floods, & Open Fields 2004
Jim Graham (spooky130@cox.net)
Wed, 2 Jun 2004 21:21:55 -0500
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:44:00PM -0500, jim@wildpepper.com wrote:
>>From my dim memory at one of my disaster preparedness classes I remember
>>being told that although 'manufactured housing' accounted for less than 5%
>>of the US housing, it accounted for something like 40% of the damage in
>>tornados. I maintain it is those shiny metal roofs pre-heating the air
>>above them, acting like a magnet. Sounds plausible, eh? :-)
>
> Nope. But trailer parks got clobbered everywhere else.
I distinctly remember one Skywarn[1] class where we were shown a pic from
an episode of The Simpsons ... it was a trailer park, with a sign that
said something like "Tornado-free days: 1[crossed out] 0" .... The NWS
instructer told us that, while seemingly funny, trailers and manufactured
homes do "seem" (as in, no scientific reasoning ... just "seem") to draw
tornadic systems to them.....
OBCH: I finally shot some imagery of the pepper garden, including a
couple of mystery peppers (one of which I mentioned in the post about
wind damage). I'll put them online when I get time to reduce their
sizes (currently about 1 MB for each image) and create an HTML index
for each. I'd really love to know what the two remaining mystery
pepper plants actually are...and if anyone's going to know, it'll
probably be the folks on this list. :-)
Oh, and said imagery also includes a pic of the official "Protector
of Habanero Row[2]" ... a plastic monkey from SwizzleStick (a local hotel
bar that's more of a locals' hangout than a hotel bar). :-) This
monkey has lost one leg, but he did his job last year <grin>, and he's
still there this year...watching over "Habanero Row". :-)
Later,
--jim
[1] Skywarn: a combination of Amateur Radio operators (like me), fire
department, police/sheriff/etc, ambulance drivers, etc., with formal
NWS training in spotting/chasing severe weather, including tornadic
systems. Basically, our trained eyes tell the NWS what their radar
can't. Their radar can say that there *MIGHT* be something there,
but (for now) only trained human eyes can say that there *IS* or
*IS NOT* something there, what it's doing, where it's going, etc.....
[2] I live in an apartment on a barrier island---I'm on the first floor,
which means I'm about 15' AGL ... so all of my pepper plants are on
the deck/balcony/whatever you'd call it.[3]
[3] This footnote intentionally left blank[4].
[4] Too many hours spent reading alt.sysadmin.recovery[5].....
[5] Don't forget the chicken when posting to ASR---keeps ones
cow-orkers[6] from invading....
[6] Not a typo (well, it was...the first time it appeared in ASR, but
it was instantly adopted as an accepted spelling ... but that was
about ten years ago).
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