Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

Jay Honeck wrote:
Glad to hear you are all OK, and that the Inn and Atlas escaped damage.
Looking forward to the pre-OSH pool party.


Heck, yeah -- the show must go on!
Yeah, would have really sucked if you were the one to have to cancel on
folks due to lack of a hotel :-) So, now you've got some show and tell
material for the party. "And here's where the BBQ went through the
fence...", etc, etc. All I'll have is an excuse for interested parties
to crawl under the plane and checkout some beefy looking new ribs on the
Arrow.


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane
Arrow N2104T

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:18:21 -0700, "RST Engineering"
wrote:

The additional pressure on a writer on deadline is to sit and wait for the
muse to hit with your editor on your case for being three days past
deadline. Sometimes I wish I was simply writing the textbook or service
manual and when it gets done, it gets done. I'd probably do a much better
job.

Nah. the problem with manuals is they're never done. It's rev this
and rev that until you're ready to puke. I did one on an HP
calculator once that I thought I'd never get done with.

Give me freelance technical articles any day. (Assuming you're being
paid by somebody besides the magazine. Unless you've got a regular
gig with the magazine, which is halfway decent.) There's a deadline,
they appear, and then, for better or worse, they're history.

Don

Wow...glad you guys are ok Jay. Thanks for posting the details. I
can't imagine what it must have been like...or is like at the moment
with the cleanup and folks sorting life out.

The Governor has now declared a State of Emergency for Johnson County,
which was actually hit by FIVE tornadoes, two of which hit Iowa City,
according to the newspaper...

To see a bunch of pics, go to
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage and click on P-C
and user photo galleries.

It's a humbling experience to see neighborhoods that look like they
were bombed...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

I like the one of the college kid carrying the traffic light back to his
dorm room.

"Jay Honeck" wrote

It's a humbling experience to see neighborhoods that look like they
were bombed...

Wow! You are one lucky sucker, to have missed that twister, by so little.
I'll add my "glad that you and family are all OK" also.

Any word on what number on the scale this twister was? I'm guessing F-3 or
F-4, from the looks of viewing a portion of the pictures. It could even go
F-5, I suppose.

I hope the whole country gets together, and sends lots of help your way.

Well, I'm sure you will be busy, for a good while. 100% occupancy at the
hotel will be a sure thing, for the foreseeable future, I guess.

Even though I lived in the Midwest (NW Ohio) for over 25 years, I never saw
anything like this in person. I'm only thankful, for that fact.
--
Jim in NC

("Morgans" wrote)
Any word on what number on the scale this twister was? I'm guessing F-3
or F-4, from the looks of viewing a portion of the pictures. It could
even go F-5, I suppose.


A wide F-3 would do that type of damage. You want to see an F-4? Check out
the Comfrey, MN Tornado of 1998. 3-28-1998 (4:30pm). That one still gives me
the willies.

F3 will splinter your house. F4 will wipe the slab clean of debris.

http://www.skywarn.ampr.org/98ma29.htm
Jay's Iowa City tornado damage looks like St Peter's damage from this same
March 1998 storm. Photo links scattered around this site.

http://www.gusties.org/cleanup/
St Peter, MN 1998 (F3)

http://www.sigmamaps.com/StPeter/stpindex.htm
March 28, 1998 (5:20 pm)

Here's mine last year. We hid our cars under a parking ramp that evening.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/mpx/TornadoS...nesota2005.php
Sept 21, 2005 Blaine-Coon Rapids
2 miles long, 50 yards wide path. (F2) Trees, roofs, sheds, signs, etc.

The Siren , WI tornado in 2001 was bad, too. Weather experts will rate the
tornado after studying the area during a walk around. The Siren tornado -
they kept moving the F number up, then down, then back up, then back down.
Don't recall what they settled on? Might be some politics going on - aid
money difference?


Montblack

Any word on what number on the scale this twister was? I'm guessing F-3 or
F-4, from the looks of viewing a portion of the pictures. It could even go
F-5, I suppose.

Actually, they're calling it an F2. Actually, they're calling it TWO
F2s.

Well, I'm sure you will be busy, for a good while. 100% occupancy at the
hotel will be a sure thing, for the foreseeable future, I guess.

Strangely, it seems to be working just the opposite -- we are totally
DEAD. I've received a lot of calls from pre-existing reservations,
asking if we're still in business -- and I think a fair number of
people aren't calling, period, because they think Iowa City has been
wiped off the map...

:-(

Anyone want a suite, cheap? Fly on over -- the weather is GREAT!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Wow, you almost became a VFR-into-IMC casualty without even using an
aircraft. I'm glad everyone is ok!

--Gary

It's a humbling experience to see neighborhoods that look like they
were bombed...
--
Jay Honeck

Jay,

Thank the Lord you guys are okay. Everyone seems to have a tornado story. My wife lost her uncle in one.
Be thankful you live in the Midwest. I'll wager you are about to meet a bunch of good Samaritans and heroes.

Joe Schneider
N8437R



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Wow, you almost became a VFR-into-IMC casualty without even using an
aircraft. I'm glad everyone is ok!

Thanks, Gary. In fact, the tornado was closer to me than I thought it
was.

See this graphic:

http://web-server1.daily-iowan.uiowa...s/nadomapo.jpg

Blow it up to full-size (if it's not already), and check out Muscatine
Avenue on the right side of the map. That's where I was sitting, under
a gas station canopy, when the tornado came through.

Dang. It really *was* towering over me...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"