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Hatches battened? Just heard you've had a bit of weather.
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I'm fine too. Thanks for asking :wink:
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PS: Several aircraft damaged at the fly-in at Lakeland, and at Clearwater Airpark. Started the morning <span style="font-style: italic">early</span> here with weather alarms going off; tornado watch, warning, thunderstorm warning, another tornado warning...then another...still raining.
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PS: Several aircraft damaged at the fly-in at Lakeland, and at Clearwater Airpark. Started the morning <span style="font-style: italic">early</span> here with weather alarms going off; tornado watch, warning, thunderstorm warning, another tornado warning...then another...still raining.
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Sorry, Scott - thought it was just over on the coast.
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Don't want to overlook anyone else...
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Violent storm hits Florida Sun 'n Fun air show. Possibility of 70 people trapped under a collapsed roof.
https://www.avweb.com/news/snf/SunNFun2011_StormDamage_Tornado_70Trapped_204377-1.html
"Damage at Lakeland, Florida's Sun 'n Fun air show may be in the millions after a storm blew through late Thursday morning, damaging aircraft and structures on the ground. Everyone has been accounted for on-site, and there are no reports of serious injuries. Initial reports on cable news channels indicated that 70 people were trapped under a collapsed roof, but those reports appear to have been unfounded. Lakeland Police Department's Terri Smith, whom AVweb spoke with on-site, informs us that no building have collapsed. (Some outlets are reporting that a tent collapse had temporarily trapped those inside.)
Storms were still moving through the area after the initial onslaught. "
https://www.avweb.com/news/snf/SunNFun2011_StormDamage_Tornado_70Trapped_204377-1.html
"Damage at Lakeland, Florida's Sun 'n Fun air show may be in the millions after a storm blew through late Thursday morning, damaging aircraft and structures on the ground. Everyone has been accounted for on-site, and there are no reports of serious injuries. Initial reports on cable news channels indicated that 70 people were trapped under a collapsed roof, but those reports appear to have been unfounded. Lakeland Police Department's Terri Smith, whom AVweb spoke with on-site, informs us that no building have collapsed. (Some outlets are reporting that a tent collapse had temporarily trapped those inside.)
Storms were still moving through the area after the initial onslaught. "
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Hold on the your cars.. it doesn't sound good.
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Had a twister touch down in Brandon, wiped out a local roadside fruit stand... 12 lanes of traffic smeared with mangos and tomatoes. :shocked: No humans were injured.
One tractor trailer rig flipped onto a coupe cars, no fatalities but northbound I-75 was a good skate board park for a few hours after. Totally blocked the highway.
Had one small half-inch diameter limb from an oak tree fall on my back porch... so far, so good.
One tractor trailer rig flipped onto a coupe cars, no fatalities but northbound I-75 was a good skate board park for a few hours after. Totally blocked the highway.
Had one small half-inch diameter limb from an oak tree fall on my back porch... so far, so good.
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Any word from Mr. Quiaf? He's supposed to be in the area too.
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Dunno, He left on the 29th so mebbe not.
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Mickey Richaud said:
Yeah yeah. Just kidding anyway
This spring time stuff usually starts in the gulf and runs across the state. Yesterday it was a river of crud from the Gulf all the way into the Atlantic. Tampa was a little more hard hit with 90mph gusts, we were only in the 70s.
Reports of "70 people trapped" at Lakeland were way off base it turns out. One small hangar/building did collapse (at least that's the way it looked in the pictures), but the big "hangar" was actually an exposition tent of some kind, and 6-7 people had minor injuries from it.
40 airplanes sustained damage but it was relatively isolated. The news and spectator photos of the damaged airplanes are <span style="font-style: italic">mostly</span> from a manufacturers are of several Zenith CH750s that apparently weren't even tied down. One landed on top of an Eclipse EA500 jet. There were also several cubs, homebuilts, and a Cessna L19 that had obvious major damage - not to mention a Cessna 208 Caravan that was completely flipped on it's back. <span style="font-style: italic">That</span> is some impressive wind to flip a Caravan like that.
Several friends from an airplane club I belong to are there. None had any expensive damage to report, just things like lost or damaged tents, etc.
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aerog, i cant even look at those pictures a second time, all those beautiful butterflys. :frown:
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Yuk! Makes me sick.
One year at Oshkosh, the sirens sounded and a storm warning was broadcast.
You have to supply your own tie-downs. My buddy brought huge things that augered deep into the ground, but others only brought little tent pegs, which were useless. The wind lifted several planes up and dropped them on others, damaging both.
In the height of the storm, the 310 next to us started his engines! What was he doing leaving in this mess? Turns out he had been listening to the radio and his battery was getting low, so he wanted to charge it.
We held onto the Luscombe's struts but then felt electricity running through them into us so we let go!
Our tent was in a low place and everything was soaked. We went into a hangar. Townfolk from Oshkosh were calling in to offer their homes for campers to stay the night. We spent the night with a very kind family in the town. We dried our stuff in their dryer.
Quite an adventure.
One year at Oshkosh, the sirens sounded and a storm warning was broadcast.
You have to supply your own tie-downs. My buddy brought huge things that augered deep into the ground, but others only brought little tent pegs, which were useless. The wind lifted several planes up and dropped them on others, damaging both.
In the height of the storm, the 310 next to us started his engines! What was he doing leaving in this mess? Turns out he had been listening to the radio and his battery was getting low, so he wanted to charge it.
We held onto the Luscombe's struts but then felt electricity running through them into us so we let go!
Our tent was in a low place and everything was soaked. We went into a hangar. Townfolk from Oshkosh were calling in to offer their homes for campers to stay the night. We spent the night with a very kind family in the town. We dried our stuff in their dryer.
Quite an adventure.