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summerkid · 05-30-2004, 06:55 PM

... just what we needed. Tornado warning till 10, flash-flood warning till 9. Also, severe thunderstorm warning till ... forever.

I am so bored I'm re-watching the video that came with my breadmaker. And wasting my life in front of the computer ...

Maybe a flash-flood will come right through this house! That would be something new & interesting.

Does anybody know of a relatively calm place to live in this country, someplace untroubled by hurricanes, mudslides, tornados, deep snow cover, flash floods or heavy tick infestations?

markdoane · 05-30-2004, 06:57 PM

New Jersey?

joecj76 · 05-30-2004, 07:01 PM

Hey, join the crowd, life sucks and then you die.

summerkid · 05-30-2004, 07:02 PM

yes, because at this rate i will drink myself to death at an early age.

tin can luv · 05-30-2004, 07:20 PM

passed through here last weekend, then Thursday, then tonight... Each and every time, I loose parts of my trees....getting tired of it!!!

**jcanavera** · 05-30-2004, 07:36 PM

Well its all cleared through St. Louis. Weather gets back to normal starting tomorrow. Lets hope mother nature does her balancing act and we get a couple of dry weeks. I'm counting on it. Based on the weather today this was not the weekend to be out in a campground.

Jack

85MH325 · 05-30-2004, 08:27 PM

Took my daughter to Chicago today to fly out of O'Hare. Drove through a storm, then chased it from Davenport clear to Chicago. On the way home this afternoon, drove back home through the second wave of the day. Heavy, heavy wind and rain in western IL. Fortunately, no hail or tornados. NOT a good drive, but we made it home safely. Almost had to pull over twice.

Summerkid... dream on... there's no where that'll suit your needs that I can think of... did you know that the largest earthquake to ever hit the North American continent had it's epicenter south of St. Louis in 1811-1812 on the New Madrid fault (named after the town of the same name). It reportedly made the Mississippi run backwards for several days. An eyewitness account:

http://asms.k12.ar.us/armem/richards/eye2.htm

So, here in the good ol' midwest we only have earthquakes, severe storms, and tornados. The South Pacific, where I lived for three years has typhoons and earthquakes. The East Coast has tornados and hurricanes... and of course the West has it's share of storms and earthquakes. Did I leave anywhere out? It just makes life interesting.!

Roger

robandzoe · 05-30-2004, 08:32 PM

The weather underground web site is great, with a good radar page..type in your zip code, and click on the radar image. I use it often. www.wunderground.com

Rob

summerkid · 05-30-2004, 08:58 PM

Oh Rog, I forgot you were coming through the area today... you could have stayed here & shared my nutritious Sunday dinner of taco chips & pickles & waited out the storm. It's calm for the moment.

WayWard Wind · 05-30-2004, 09:31 PM

Jack --you hit it right on ---It's not a good week-end for camping in Minnesota either. We live next door to a campground & they have water in the upper floors of thier tents.

Rain, Rain & more Rain---started on Friday afternoon &
guess when the weather IS supposed to clear? Tuesday. Happen to us lots of times, leave for home & the weather clears. Happen once to often & that's when we left the tent & bought the A/S.

Best,

summerkid · 05-30-2004, 09:35 PM

My dad used to swear by Montana but even HE doesn't live there anymore. Now he's touting the benefits of Wenatchee, Wash., which DOES sound as if it has the best of many worlds.

One year, while I was in college in western Montana, it snowed EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR. Got caught in a BLIZZARD during a Fourth of July campout, nearly fell off the mountain during a whiteout.

InsideOut · 05-30-2004, 09:44 PM

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Does anybody know of a relatively calm place to live in this country, someplace untroubled by hurricanes, mudslides, tornados, deep snow cover, flash floods or heavy tick infestations?

Shhh...don't tell anyone, Denver is GREAT!!! We have none of the above....and we have very mild winters, close to 300 days of sunshine ~

Shari

summerkid · 05-30-2004, 10:19 PM

... is there any affordable land left in Colorado? I just need a few acres to hide out in, build my Quonset hut, goat pen & chicken house, beehives. I'm looking for a little terrain & some water, a pond or stream.

300 days of sun is on the order of Southern France, you know ....

**jcanavera** · 05-30-2004, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by InsideOut

Shhh...don't tell anyone, Denver is GREAT!!! We have none of the above....and we have very mild winters, close to 300 days of sunshine ~

Shari

Oh now tell the truth Shari. I remember a very nice campground in Golden named Dakota Ridge. I have stayed there several times and summer in Golden brings about the afternoon downpours along with associated hail. But don't worry your secret is safe with me....

Jack

InsideOut · 05-30-2004, 10:47 PM

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...Quonset hut, goat pen & chicken house, beehives. I'm looking for a little terrain & some water, a pond or stream.

Huh?! Not in Denver proper...but Colorado yes.

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Oh now tell the truth Shari. I remember a very nice campground in Golden named Dakota Ridge. I have stayed there several times and summer in Golden brings about the afternoon downpours along with associated hail. But don't worry your secret is safe with me....

Jack

We do get an afternoon thunderstorm or two...but typically they only last a couple minutes then the sun is out again. We have been here 10+ years, and it has hailed pea size hail maybe 6 times total...that's it, you must've got "lucky" if you had much more than that. And it does snow...but it melts off as soon as the storm passes.

Now the mountains are a different story....they do get snow through the winter, how else could we have all the wonderful ski resorts?! And the plains do too, but Denver is nestled up against the foothills/mountains and most storms have run themselves out coming over the Rockies that there's nothing left for Denver. Then they pick up moisture again for the plains.

Shari

summerkid · 05-30-2004, 10:49 PM

i love to ski ... it wouldn't be bad to get back out west... i'd been thinking southern & warmer. a borderline zone 6-7 would be good.

71_safari · 05-30-2004, 10:51 PM

>>Shhh...don't tell anyone, Denver is GREAT!!! We have none of the above....and we have very mild winters, close to 300 days of sunshine<<

Uh, well, I have followed MANY tornadoes around the Front Range of Colorado when I lived there in the 80's. Amazing to watch. Couple times they even did some damage. And then let's see, there was the two years in a row that my car was dented by hail the size of golfballs when I couldn't reach cover, and after the 2nd re-paint I was headed west on I70 near Dillon in March, and a massive sandstorm blew down the canyon and took the paint right back off the front of it....

But I DO love Colorado... really! And New Mexico, and Utah and Arizona - they are awesome and I'm going to have to spend a month or two out there this summer enjoying the unpredictable weather! Hopefully it won't hail...

john

85MH325 · 05-31-2004, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by InsideOut

Shhh...don't tell anyone, Denver is GREAT!!! We have none of the above....and we have very mild winters, close to 300 days of sunshine ~

Shari

Uh... Shari... what about the trip I took to CO a couple of years back and ended up sitting on the tarmac in the new Denver airport for two hours while thunderstorms, hail, and tornados swirled around us? Our plane couldn't 'dock' because there weren't any available gates. All of those who had loaded deplaned, and the rest of us who landed got to sit on the apron in our planes. That was probably THE most helpless I've ever felt!

Roger

85MH325 · 05-31-2004, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by summerkid

Oh Rog, I forgot you were coming through the area today... you could have stayed here & shared my nutritious Sunday dinner of taco chips & pickles & waited out the storm. It's calm for the moment.

Yea, we should have stopped in! Didn't even think about it before hand! Rain check?

Roger

Coloradobus · 05-31-2004, 02:03 PM

Ok guys, in Shari's defense. We DO have occasional hail, thunderstorms, and real skinny-pencil-like twisters now and again. They aren't very common, an will uproot a tree here and there, just as big hail is rare. (July 1990, grapefruit sized hail, did $300 Million in damage in 20 minutes) Denver Airport is in the "Plains", so there is more volatile weather out there. Up close to the foothills, our weather isn't that exteme. For now, geologically, they say we are quiet, with no major ground shaking.
500 miles to the north, Yellowstone, is a sleeping, menacing giant of a "Super Volcano," is ending its period of dormantcy. When she blows, no one knows, but those in Phoenix and St Louis will have to "DUCK."!!!