Tornadoes

[filkertom]

There seems to be nasty-ass weather in VA. Not being precisely sure where some of you are, partiallyclips, jannyblue, anybody else out that way? Sound off so we know you're okay.

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[notnormal23224.livejournal.com]

I'm in the Richmond, VA neck of the woods, no tornado here but the weather was bad enough for me to contact my insurance agent for some home repairs due to a leak.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Don't worry. That's south and southeastern. Those two, and I, are much further north...we simply got a lot of rain. And even that's moved off.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

North of VA in Maryland. We only got rain here in Baltimore, no reports of tornadoes on the news as it tapered off. Will find out more at 10pm EST.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

Washington Post reports one dead, 200 injured in central and southeastern Virginia. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042802128.html) Colonial Heights was hard hit. VA State government says there were possibly two tornadoes.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

Things were pretty calm between Alexandria and Springfield when I headed home. (I was supposed to be heading for Greenbelt to rendezvous with starmalachite, but Metro ineptitude is an ongoing manmade disaster rather than a specific natural one.)

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Steve! I need to speak to you anyway. What would it take to license that 307 Ale logo from you?

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

Feel free to use it as you like; writing the song in the first place was a lot more significant that doing a simple sign parody.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

We had buckets of rain this afternoon in DC (where my office is) and a lot of wind, but I'm fine.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

There's more pictures here: http://www.slide.com/r/QOzKVKkfqT8wASmY4NXT6FvIbA-ywG2M?cy=ms&view=large

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

I saw a terrible puddle and had to step around it. Hold me.

No, we're cool. Glad this didn't hit Richmond during Ravencon this weekend or on the way home yesterday.

[pjhandley.livejournal.com]

glad that you & Janny didn't get the nasty weather. and yeah, I had to drive through rain on the way home, but nothing worse than sprinkles really.

It was good to see you two at Raven! it was a new con for me, so I was worried I wouldn't know anyone.

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

As I now notice has been pointed out a few times already, not much action here in the DC metro.

The implacable dampness and unseasonably cold temperatures are a bummer, and in this town, clouds + anything above 50% humidity is enough to slow the beltway to a halt. But as a former south-Floridian who eventually became so jaded that he didn't even bother to shut the windows for anything short of a force 3 hurricane, it take a lot of very harsh storm activity to register with me.

OTOH, I gather that a couple of tornadoes touched down a few days back in Waldorf, MD, which is not far from Baltimore. I know one person who lives up that way - in a trailer park, no less -- and this reminds me that I should check in with him, though I'm pretty sure there were no injuries reported.

Incidentally: Washington DC, a mid-Atlantic city -- 80 degrees on new years day; 35 degrees overnight in the last week of April. WTF?

What, I ask you, the fuck.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Welcome to climate change.

[darrenzieger.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Actually, the climate in DC has been disturbingly funky for as long as I've lived here (14 years). Longer, by the accounts of many natives I know. But it seems to have taken a decided turn for the weird in the last 5 years or so.

[poppyokapi.livejournal.com]

Nothing noticable here, but I'm in NoVA, not RoVA.

[ginkage.livejournal.com]

We got lots of rain here in Waynesboro, but we're about two to two and a half hours north and west of the affected area. Still scary to realize it was -that- close.

Then again, over the weekend, we had storms come through and dump hail and that's not something we see much of in our area of the valley.

[pjhandley.livejournal.com]

I was out in Richmond over the weekend for Ravencon, but was about halfway through Ohio on my way back to Michigan when the nasty weather struck. the pictures on the news were horrifying.

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

DC/Frederick md, here.

I work in a windowless basement office so weather tends to be OFF the personal radar.

However, the husband up in fredneck says that yesterday he had some lovely thunderstorms. Other than the multiple cat scratches from our girls trying hide behind him from the nasty thunder monsters, he's fine.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Plenty of rain and horrible traffic here in the I-66/Dulles corridor area (2 hours to go 7 miles yesterday morning), but that's all. The tornadoes hit 100-150 miles south and southeast of here. My brother-in-law lives down there and reports that the traffic down there was *completely* FUBAR for the commute home, due both to "water-soluble driving skills" and roads being blocked by downed trees and general debris.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

water-soluble driving skills

Gonna have to adopt that one!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

It's by no means original with me; I picked up the term from grayhawkfh and have no idea where he may have heard it. But it does seem accurate *sigh*.

[wildcard9.livejournal.com]

Same here. We had a little rain this morning and it was enough for an idiot to wedge his car under the dtruck in front of him in slow stop-and-go traffic. And of course, they did this right after my off-ramp so I was stuck in the rubbernecking back-up because of it.