Re: The New WCHA 3, Revenge of the Sieve (2013-14)
This was an interesting afternoon in my neck of the woods... Had the cells that produced the tornadoes down in Pekin, IL, Washington, IL, and Coal City IL pass just a few miles south and east of my place... Basically knew since about 11am or so that we were lined up with the strongest cells... Thankfully they died out a bit by the time they got up in my area...
Was actually pretty amazing being able to follow the storms in real time through the internet and radio reports coming over my police scanner... Also kinda scary realizing that there is a 10-15 minute lag time between those reports and what is being said on TV
During the 2011-04-27 outbreak — which looked like
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pqxr4vut8...40288713_197508906960813_619575_2652637_o.jpg here in north Alabama; our part of the state where the red warning polygons are stacked on each other so much that you can't see "Huntsville" — I was sitting on the bathroom floor of my not-well-made townhouse when the TV, blaring in the other room, told me that there were signs of a funnel cloud at the city hall in Madison, which is about 1.2mi as the crow flies, directly in the direction those tornadoes were tracking. I was about 50% sure that I was a moment or two from dying. I was wishing that I had a scanner right about then.
Then the monster tornado of the outbreak — the one that went straight at the NBC affiliate's Doppler radar[sub]1[/sub] and the tower camera, which left me screaming, "You idiots, the tornado is right bloody there!" at my TV — destroyed all of the major power transmission cables coming out of the local nuclear power plant, which was fine but had to drop production by 90% until everything was back up. I left town the next morning when I knew the damage that was done.
Sorry, we all have our own April 27th stories, and until UAH wins a league game, I'm going to talk about something else. But if you want me to talk hockey, I'll point out that all three UAH opponents have now played each other through Bemidji. You now have a bad-good-better comparison. I'm beginning to wonder if the league might not get decided on who plays us the most[sub]2[/sub], which does not favor Ferris or Tech.
GFM
[1] They all have their own here, plus the NWS radars around the area. When it looked as if the NWS Huntsville office would be closed, the TV stations went into an arms race.
[2] I see you printing this out for the locker room, Laurila.
