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Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:08 pm**

Actually getting some sprinkles here at Ina and Thornydale

Posted: **Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:10 pm**

Holy hell it actually just rained kinda hard at my house over in Old Fort Lowell.

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:13 am**

sub 100 all day in phx and raining this morning - reported to me straight from the streets

lol!

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 9:18 am**

Brrrrrrr........

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:15 pm**

64 in Tucson right now

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:22 pm**

Only 75 at my house but been raining off and on for like 2 hours now

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 5:59 pm**

Boo only sprinkles here. Still 85 degrees

Posted: **Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:54 pm**

It's supposed to hit 112 in Portland this weekend. 90 on the Oregon coast. 100 or more in Seattle. Unreal.

Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2021 2:55 pm**

so glad you and your family made it through safely Chi

Posted: **Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:27 pm**

Appreciate that POM. Seeing that a tornado missed us by literally 250 yards, even a weak one, is sobering as hell.

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:55 pm**

Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:27 pm Appreciate that POM. Seeing that a tornado missed us by literally 250 yards, even a weak one, is sobering as hell.

I echo everyone's sentiments J. Glad all are safe.

We had a tornado take out the big tree in our front yard when I was 3 or 4 living in Arlington Heights outside Chicago. There's two versions of the family story, one where my dad never got out of bed and my mom, sister, and I got to the basement and another where my dad didn't grab me and the two of us both stayed upstairs. We were very lucky there was no damage to the house or humans.

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:49 pm**

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 8:55 pm
Chicat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 3:27 pm Appreciate that POM. Seeing that a tornado missed us by literally 250 yards, even a weak one, is sobering as hell.
I echo everyone's sentiments J. Glad all are safe.

We had a tornado take out the big tree in our front yard when I was 3 or 4 living in Arlington Heights outside Chicago. There's two versions of the family story, one where my dad never got out of bed and my mom, sister, and I got to the basement and another where my dad didn't grab me and the two of us both stayed upstairs. We were very lucky there was no damage to the house or humans.

June 1966, right?

It struck early in the morning so that may be why your dad wasn’t particularly interested in getting out of bed.

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:00 pm**

Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:49 pm
June 1966, right?

It struck early in the morning so that may be why your dad wasn’t particularly interested in getting out of bed.

Sounds about right. That would have made my sister 3 months and me almost 2. I have no memory of it, I've just seen 8mm movies of the rest of the tree being torn down.

Thanks for that info Chi. Now I am Googling and finding out all kinds of stuff about the tornado. It was an F2 but the same storm spawned an F5 in Topeka, Kansas.

Posted: **Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:08 pm**

UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:00 pm
Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:49 pm
June 1966, right?

It struck early in the morning so that may be why your dad wasn’t particularly interested in getting out of bed.

Sounds about right. That would have made my sister 3 months and me almost 2. I have no memory of it, I've just seen 8mm movies of the rest of the tree being torn down.

Thanks for that info Chi. Now I am Googling and finding out all kinds of stuff about the tornado. It was an F2 but the same storm spawned an F5 in Topeka, Kansas.

That's probably the tornado that I was in. Here is the wiki and it mentions a tornado in Cook county

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_o ... _June_1966

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:16 am**

84Cat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:08 pm
UAEebs86 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 10:00 pm
Chicat wrote: ↑Fri Jun 25, 2021 9:49 pm
June 1966, right?

It struck early in the morning so that may be why your dad wasn’t particularly interested in getting out of bed.

Sounds about right. That would have made my sister 3 months and me almost 2. I have no memory of it, I've just seen 8mm movies of the rest of the tree being torn down.

Thanks for that info Chi. Now I am Googling and finding out all kinds of stuff about the tornado. It was an F2 but the same storm spawned an F5 in Topeka, Kansas.

That's probably the tornado that I was in. Here is the wiki and it mentions a tornado in Cook county

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_o ... _June_1966

So going off of our handles you are two years older than me so you would have been about 4. Do you remember it?
What suburb did you live in? We lived in AH on Forrest Drive. Moved to Phoenix the summer of '70.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:02 am**

Yes, I was 4 and lived in Topeka, KS. I remember our house had some trees down but there were houses completely gone down to the foundation in our neighborhood.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:22 am**

That F5 is famous in Topeka history. It was so powerful it ripped grass right out of the ground. Cars were sucked up and tossed hundreds of feet away.

I’m thankful it missed your family because others weren’t so lucky. Homes were literally obliterated.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:49 am**

Looks like we could get another outbreak of tornadoes this afternoon. Apparently the heat dome over the West is causing crazy unsettled weather across the Midwest.

Posted: **Sat Jun 26, 2021 9:02 am**

In 1974 I was living in Michigan, and my maternal grandparents were living in Ohio where my mom grew up and most of her brothers and sisters lived, so we used to go down all the time to see them.

One trip down my dad decided to drive through Xenia Ohio and look at the aftermath. It stuck with me to this day.

Two violent F5 tornadoes destroyed much of Xenia and Sayler Park (a western suburb of Cincinnati) in Ohio. Resulting in 34 deaths, the Xenia tornado was the deadliest of all tornadoes from this outbreak and remains among the top 10 costliest U.S. tornadoes on record (approximately $250 million in 1974).

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:51 pm**

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:01 pm**

Saw that the Olympic track trials were moved to 8:30pm due to the hot conditions.

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:06 pm**

They actually had to cancel it. Eugene set a record with a temperature of 112.

Posted: **Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:35 pm**

Chicat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:51 pm

You're welcome.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:12 am**

EastCoastCat wrote: ↑Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:06 pm They actually had to cancel it. Eugene set a record with a temperature of 112.

112 degrees might actually kill the mold growing in the closets built on the northeast side of Eugene homes.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:13 am**

I hope they have enough sunscreen - not like they have a lot of sunny days in Oregon.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 7:35 am**

They shut down the light rail due to the heat and car rental prices shot up $100.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:28 am**

My neighbors just got back from a family visit to Portland. They said it was hell.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:48 pm**

Bring it on

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 2:01 pm**

Really doesn't seem to be much developing so far storm wise

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:17 pm**

Finally something heading our way from Alpine, maybe get it tonight. Hopefully Hurricane Enrique in Baja brings even more later this week. 30-70% chance every day thru July 7. Im ready to play in some muddy puddles

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:53 pm**

Talked with my brother in Portland. I asked him if he was losing his gills the way salamanders do when they crawl out of the water. He says it's so hot it's gonna turn Oregon's homegrown shiteaters into full fledged jihadists .... "like it has your GOP Taliban in Arizona."

Next up on Tucker: the connection between gills, BLM, and riots in the Pacific Northwest. Lizard people really are a thing and Freedumb! depends on it!

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:55 pm**

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:40 pm**

Talked with a couple of couples tonight who got rooms because they don't have AC.

Posted: **Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:57 pm**

Hoquiam. Damn, I haven't even thought about that place for decades. Just up the road is Humptulips, and on to darkest Quinalt. Gawd, make it stop.

Posted: **Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:28 am**

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2021 6:20 pm**

I was up on Sunrise today and it poured for about 30 minutes today. Rained for about 1 minute at Ft Lowell & Campbell

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:12 pm**

I got about 10 mins of moderate rain at Ina and Thornydale

Posted: **Wed Jun 30, 2021 10:06 pm**

Barely a sprinkle at Glenn and Craycroft this afternoon

Posted: **Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:50 pm**

5% of their average yearly total number of lightning strikes for the entire country happened in .2% of the time over only about 100 square km because the wildfire smoke caused crazy intense thunderstorms that produced cloud to ground lightning that started more fires.

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 3:22 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 3:23 pm**

Absolute downpour including a little bit of hail at Campbell and Ft Lowell

Edit: We got 1 inch of rain

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:31 pm**

Only a little rain to go with a dust storm, thunder and lightning here at Cortaro and I-10.

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:42 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:45 pm**

Did you take that pic Jefe? Holy crap

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:47 pm**

No saw it on FB hahaha. I wonder how far he made it

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:50 pm**

Just some sprinkles here at Ina and Thornydale. But it looks like it absolutely dumped rain just a quarter mile south of me.

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:23 pm**

I got dumped on at my house by Glenn and Craycroft

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:26 pm**

I don't recall ever being under a microburst.

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:00 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jul 02, 2021 7:11 pm**

Shit that’s right by my crib.

Looks like the Stone exit is where I’m headed.

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