Devastation in Iowa City Tonight

Jay, glad you are OK, now let me beat you about the head and shoulders
for going out in your car with a twister dancing across town and you
knew it - and a convertible no less - jeez...
Anyway, like Jay Beckman, as a lifelong Michigan resident I can see,
feel, and smell a tornado before it forms... I have up close and
personal experience with being picked up by a twister in 1953... I
survived and I'm not emotionally traumatized, but I am wary of those
monsters Next time get your butt into a basement and stay there until
it is all over...

denny...

Exceptional write-up, Jay.
Thanks. SO glad all of you OK.




"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...

So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado
sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were all
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I hope the airport is ok too...?

Yeah, even though Menards is on the north edge of the airport, it
survived unscathed. Atlas shrugged off the storm.

Well, except for the 8 billion pieces of wood, insullation, rebar and
shingles scattered EVERYWHERE. FOD is the name of the game.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay, glad you are OK, now let me beat you about the head and shoulders
for going out in your car with a twister dancing across town and you
knew it - and a convertible no less - jeez...

Trust me, I felt pretty stupid, especially after Mary told me not to
leave because one of several tornadoes were approaching.

Trouble was, I seriously thought that I had the superior weather
instrument, being in the weather room at the airport. The radar there
was showing that the worst of the storm had passed.

I won't make that mistake again.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

By the way, Mr. English Major:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
It took my son and I...

What's up with that?

Hey, it was 1 AM when I finished that. No proof reading. Gimme a
break...

;-)

I hope you're wrong about the casualties. Guess we'll find out soon enough
about that.

Dunno yet. Last I heard there were injuries, but no fatalaties -- but I
just woke up. The front page of our newspaper is loaded with pictures
that look like London in the Blitz.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

I'm amazed you're having 85 degree evenings in Iowa City in mid April.
Is this typical?

No! We beat the temperature record for yesterday by over ten degrees.

Very unusual weather, for April.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 13 Apr 2006 22:06:51 -0700, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

So I was at our airport commission meeting tonight when the tornado
sirens went off. We had noticed the skies becoming black, but were all
too wrapped up in talk of paving taxiways to pay much heed.

I live in Chicago area, and the storms headed this way after Iowa
City. No where near as much devastation, just a lot of lightning and
a bit of hail.

That was a very odd strorm. It was influenced by a stationary front
sweeping across the midwest, but the activity was very localized. All
the cells were concentrated within an almost perfect circle of 50nm.
No rain anywhere else. Plus the visible satellite pictured showed CLR
conditions everywhere minus the 50nm circle. Quite odd.

Great write-up Jay. You made us feel your excitement with your words.
Thanks for the update of your situation. We were worried about you and
the family. Now go pick up some of those shingles lying around and get
on the roof.

Tom

So Jay, why aren't you a professional writer?

Jose
--
The price of freedom is... well... freedom.
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Lived in the Midwest most of my life and have never come face to face
with one, but saw the results a few times. With frequency of storms
this year, it seems to only be a matter of time. I hear there has
already been more this year than all last year.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.