So much of America is dealing with tornadoes right now, and preparedness is the key to your best chance at getting through this in one piece. Hollywood likes to depict tornadoes in a certain way. Sadly, the reality is far scarier.
I wrote about what it’s been like to deal with all of the strong storms that Illinois has been slammed by this year. Hoser68:
I was in Alabama in 2011. Something hard to forget. We had 62 tornadoes in a single day. I had 3 go over my backyard. That was a wild day. The storms ate the weather radar and many of the tornado sirens. Cops would sit in their cars in subdivisions and hit their sirens and run to shelter until the storm passed.
The scary part was that my kids were at a friend’s house. They fled to my house when the creek blocked off and flooded their house. An EF5 path was within a mile of that house. All that “finger of God” stuff from Twister is a lie. EF5 damage is not hard to define. It’s easy. Plowed Field. News vans would setup in a plowed field and show pictures of solid brick homes that looked like they had taken cannon fire and a pretty 63 Bubble top Chevy that had been thrown into someone’s yard. What they didn’t realize is that the plowed field was the other half of the subdivision. The EF5 ate the roads, grass, the trees, the houses, and even a couple of the basements. It wasn’t “a Finger of God”, it was an eraser. Whatever was there was gone.
We didn’t have power for 3 weeks after the storm and were trapped with this other family in our house for over a month. The worse part was that the father of this family had legendarily bad breath.
Hopefully you never have to go through something like that. Or at least if you do, you have a crate of Altoids.
Mark wrote a showdown between a 1983 Chrysler LeBaron and a 1993 Dodge Spirit. 96Z26:
I choose the Dodge so that when it inevitably stops working I can proclaim, “My Spirit is broken.”
Brian wrote about a patent for a forklift add-on for a pickup truck. TheDrunkenWrench:
I feel like this is purpose-built for farmers that need to quickly grab bales, but aren’t at the level where they need a dedicated Hay Squeeze.
As a Certified Forklift instructor, I’d like to point out that trying to do any high lift work with something that has suspension at the fulcrum axle, is a recipe for a workplace accident.
This comment reminded me of this video:
Sid Bridge:
This would have saved Vlad the Impaler so much time.
Have a great evening, everyone!
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