Weird wather in WISC - tornados today !

[Monty]

Tornados do NOT happen this time of year here !
Had several go through in Racine and Kenosha Counties (extreme SE of the states )- won't know all the damage until tomorrow - so far no serious inhuries - they skipped around - and some houses gone ! We and ours are fine - no damage.
Northern ILL hit too !

[dana]

:shocked: Yikes! that IS unheard of for up here, this time of year! sure hope things straighten out over next door for you, Penny.

[Monty]

BTW - temp was 62 here today :crazy: - snow tomorrow night !
Only down to 58 at the moment - we are breaking all kinds of records and ones we don't want to !

[My Pasos]

OMG!! My mom & Dad live in Northern Indiana, about 50 miles east of Chicago.:crazy::shocked::dropjaw:
Shoot, I never heard anything on my weather alert......

It was 72 down here in TN.....

[Pasogirlz]

Glad you are safe and w/o too much damage.
That sounds really scary.

[PattiB]

I know what you mean!! We had the same weather here last night. Tornadoes every where, lightning and rain! I was at a friends until almost 11 pm waiting it out in her basement. We ended up with four inches of rain. Flooded stalls was about the only damage we had. There was storms stretching from Oklahoma to Wisconsin. We were in the 70's the last couple of days but it supposed to go back down to normal range by the end of the week. I'll be in Miami this weekend so hopefully won't run into any bad weather on this trip.

[Pasomom]

Aw, Patti, Since you are going to be in MIami...do you need a nice little dog? See Lori's post "I need a new home"

[PattiB]

I saw him but I still have two dogs, who don't like to share mom with others! Besides I'm flying in not driving. I flew Chance a couple of times, she did not like it at all, the noise scared her.

[Monty]

LOL - I just noticed I misspelled weather in the title ! :o

[lalecl]

Here's hoping everyone is ok. Prayers going up.

[PASOFAN]

Yep, earliest tornado's on record ever in WI.. Glad every one here is ok, heard there was some major damage to some homes....

Weird weather for sure in the Midwest!

[Carol Nelson]

Yeah, I remember moving to Minnesota back in the seventies. I grew up in Nebraska where tornados were a normalcy. I remember going to the basement almost nightly some summers during my childhood there. I remember being caught in a "wall cloud" while traveling in a car when I was in my late teens, and remember a moment when the tires actually left the surface of the highway. But I'd never SEEN a tornado until I moved to MN and this was AFTER my brother told me they didn't HAVE tornados in MN. (He's a basket case when the sky clouds over, by the way...heading for the nearest basement...grin).

So when my boyfriend, who later became my husband, called one greenish, overcast afternoon and told us that there was a tornado spotted just a mile and a half from our farm house that my mother rented, and that we should head for the cellar, we did just that. My brother and my mother grabbed a couple of helmets...I recall one was a football helmet and the other was a cycle helmet, and we all crawled under a metal table to wait out the storm. :biggrin:

Well, it got pretty darned quiet and I felt like a fool, so I told my brother who was in his teens at the time to get up and look out the window and see what was going on. He crawled on top of the table to look out, and let out a loud yell!! He said, "It's coming straight for us!" I said, "Aw, you don't know what a tornado looks like!" and I crawled up next to him. Well, I looked out that basement window and there was the biggest funnel cloud I'd ever imagined in my life, and it was filling that window up!

We both crawled back under the table expecting the world to explode shortly, and I was starting to wish there was another one of those helmets around, but nothing happened and it remained quiet. So finally, bravely, we ventured upstairs to find that it had narrowly swerved around our farmplace, and hit several farms just to the south of us. We could still see several funnel clouds dipping out of the clouds like fingers just dipping down and caressing the ground. A turkey barn was almost completely obliterated, leaving globs of white scattered over the fields to the north, which looked like turkeys but was really insulation as the turkeys had been taken out the previous week. The tornado had picked up a full size tractor and tipped it upside down and wedged it in between two grain bins on one place.

So yes, I had to MOVE to MN to finally SEE my first tornado and so I know what you guys go through up there. But the only time a tornado has actually HIT my own place was right here in Texas about a year ago. Sigh....

[Monty]

It was 63 here Monday - when the tornados went thru - but we are getting back to normal ROFL
Forecast for tomorrow is 5"s of snow !
Fun with all the flooding going on now :frown: