beer and chicken wings

so.... if you are in a tornado watch with a time stamp of 9am-10pm you know its gonna be a rough day!

around 5 o'clock the tornado chasers came out of the woodwork.... Doppler trucks, vans with all sorts of craziness hanging off of them, pilot cars... you name it, they were everywhere.... well... weather be damned i wanted hot wings and beer.... and as i've always said..... i think bad weather is interesting, and nothing interesting ever happens to me... so to the bar we go

Ok, the bar we went to is like 100 years old, solid brick, huge basement... a sturdy place to weather a storm if need be. So i wasnt too worried. We are at the bar maybe 20mins, and all the TVs flash the red screen of impending weather doom.... so what does the WHOLE place do? Go outside!
(Its a nebraska thing... bad weather, go outside and look for it)

Very interesting things were going on above me right then... i looked south down the main street, clouds were movin north. Looked west, clouds were moving east. Looked east, clouds were moving west... and of course clouds were comming in from the north too... and right above that bar in scottsbluff was a spinning mess of clouds.... no crap, it looked like a toilet swirl of green and gray clouds... a little too low for comfort.

Well about then the rain started to come down, and the wind came up (maybe 60 or so mph), and of course it wouldnt be a Nebraska storm without golf ball sized hail... all the power went out, street lights and all... the tornado sirens kicked on around town... not that i could really hear 'em... but it was nice to know that it actually was a tornado... Once this all REALLY got rolling, there was so much wind/rain/debris/hail... i couldnt see across a 2-lane street to the other building

we all went back inside... a little more freaked out than before... but luckily my hotwings were done

so i enjoyed a beer and some really good hotwings in the dark... the nastiness outside kept up for about 15 or 20 more minutes... the whole time i was waiting for the windows to blow... but luckily they never did!

eventually the power kicked back on, all the warnings expired, and i had dinner.... and it was good... my truck was parked in a shed at work, so i got no damage... my fiances car was parked under a tree with no leaves on it when we got back to it... it had a few dents... but not bad

mmmm chicken wings and beer

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i guess something kind of interesting did happen

Sure don't like those bad boys. Only had one come over the house here. It ripped apart a housing development quarter mile behind us and there were baseball cards, siding and roofing all in the yard. The woods behind me were littered with debris.

It jumped this area then ripped up another quarter mile in front of us.

A sturdy building that has wings and beer, guess there was no better place to be.

same storm... awesome commentary, this dude made me laugh so hard, ahahahha

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Originally posted by WELDNGOD so Drew , tell the truth and shame the devil. Did ya ,even for a sec., think to yourself " man, if I had a .5 Meter foil on 15m lines..."

too much hail.... im used to the shifty gusty winds tho

if you got hot wings... kites...(and wind)... and beer... i dont see how it could be bad
:dunno:

in fact... that's really all i need... dont tell Brittney just kidding lmao!!

round two is on for today and tomorrow!!

Noaa is saying this may be bad weather like this area has never seen before.. forecasting large hail and tornadoes... even heard a few rumors that the national guard is on standby for disaster control...

wish me luck!! Sadly no bar specials tonite