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Subject: Twister vs. Soccer Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:28 am
Gin Ingalls Friend for Life
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Subject: Re: Twister vs. Soccer Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:52 am
There goes the orange wedges! That is wild!
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Subject: Re: Twister vs. Soccer Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:20 am
It's actually a "dust devil" like this one... but a bit larger:
This from Wikipedia:
A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a meter wide and a few meters tall) to large (more than 10 meters wide and more than 1000 meters tall). The primary vertical motion is upward. Dust devils are usually harmless, but rare ones can grow large enough to threaten both people and property.
They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are a weather phenomenon of a vertically oriented rotating column of air. Most tornadoes are associated with a larger parent circulation, the mesocyclone on the back of a supercell thunderstorm. Dust devils form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during fair weather, rarely coming close to the intensity of a tornado.
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Subject: Re: Twister vs. Soccer Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:58 am
WOW.....It sure took long enough for the coaches to tell the kids to get down....I mean, really....that should've been the first words out of their mouths.......Growing up in Southern California, we had those all the time....I remember watching them blow across the playground and off out of sight.......Altho, not that big!
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I suppose this past week hasn't exactly been relaxing for people in Wisconsin, huh?
You know, I am a born and bred "city" girl. So you always hear that it wouldn't happen in the city. And we all know that isn't true. I can remember when I was a kid being terrified when the sirens used to go off (and they used to go off a lot when I was little). I can remember going in the basement and just waiting until it was done. And it has never been a thrilling thought for me. So even in the city, I get paranoid. I am a little more on edge when there is that threat of dangerous storms (like the other day) coming into the state. And I am really not a happy person when there is that "feeling" in the air. I always remember Whoopi Goldberg's character in "The Color Purple" saying "It feels like twister weather". When you are as crazy as I am about this, that is a very unsettling feeling.
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That was FAST!!! How scary.
