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Gonz

Gonz

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BRADGATE, Iowa (AP) - Houses lay crumpled to their foundations and hundreds of thousands of people were without power Saturday after storms tore through the Midwest, including a tornado that leveled this tiny Iowa town.

"Sixty seconds of horror and weeks and months of rehabilitation and rebuilding," said Gov. Tom Vilsack, who took a walking tour of Bradgate, population 100, in northwestern Iowa.

Fifteen people in Bradgate and nearby Rolfe were injured, though none seriously, in the Friday night tornado, said Humboldt County Emergency Management Director Doug Wood. The tornado rendered 30 of Bradgate's 40 homes uninhabitable, he said.
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Are you getting the cicada bugs Gonz? If you are post some pics.

I'll stick with my earthquakes thanks .

(by september 5th)
 
Not yet...looks like they may be just emerging.

I'll tell ya what, after living in Phoenix, LA, Dallas, Chicago & FW...they can have this tornado, bug, humid, cold, hot, snowy, rainy, weather stuff. Gimme 320+ days of sun & a couple inches of rain. I hope they never have Earthquake watches/warnings like they have for snow/tornado season. Too much time preparing for nothing.
 
The only warning you get for an earthquake is the sudden feeling something is terribly wrong and its rock'n-roll time.

We do have this little tid-bit going around making some people nervous. Its about as accurate as saying there will be a tornado sometime this year.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/KB_prediction.html



Being the last conservative bastion in California, it's no so bad here.

Cooler than Phoenix, far less people than L.A., Less smoggy than DFW, and far more guns than Chicago.

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I feel another self-serving opportunity to showanother home movie

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30 mi. south of me:

"If the thunder don't get you then the lightning will"

Hallam's heartbreak
By Art Hovey
Hallam, Nebraska — Black clouds still hung over Hallam early Sunday as residents returned to see what was left of the place they call "The Little Town With A Big Heart."

The morning-after carnage left by one or more tornadoes was enough to break 300 individual hearts.

The monster storm that plowed into the 112-year-old town from the southwest about 9 p.m. Saturday killed at least one resident, sent at least 37 more to Lincoln hospitals and reduced the town to rubble.

"It is utter and complete devastation," said incident commander Pat O'Brien as he surveyed a scene swarming with emergency crews and national guard members. "It's an awesome display of Mother Nature's power."

Several tornado tails or suction spots may have been swirling beneath one supercell, or several smaller tornadoes were clustered around the main funnel.
The result was either a significant F3 or F4 tornado, Crowther said. Only about 1 percent of all tornadoes reach the intensity of an F4 or higher, where wind speeds exceed 207 mph, enough to level homes and turn cars into missiles.
The damage was so pervasive that O'Brien, assistant chief of Hallam's 21-member volunteer fire department, was uncertain whether the town could rebuild.
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http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/05/24/top_story/10050007.txt

Bad weather aside, it's still a beautiful state.
 
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