Ya'll be careful tonight in ARKANSAS

[mysaladdays]

I use Arkansas Weather Watchers on YouTube and Facebook.  They broadcast with quite  lot of granularity.  I also have their app on my phone.  Just recommending them if anyone is interested.  

Power outages skyrocketing in the state so far.  Probably around 18K or so. 

Temp drops from 50/60s to 20's will do that.  Downed trees, wind damage, hail so far in parts around Conway, Perryville, White County/Faulkner County, they think it may have been tornadic.   Saline county trees snapped, power lines down I think I heard.

So we had our 1st round of severe thunderstorms then I guess a break, with Round 2 slated for 2am later tonight (Jan 11-12) which may be worse until 4am.  

According to AWW, 👉 Large hail up to 2" in diameter

👉 70 MPH winds . A few tornadoes with a couple of intense tornadoes possible! 👉 




So I'll be getting up late tomorrow,  for sure.

[mysaladdays]

AR weather watchers gets right down to street names and neighborhoods when there is a really severe situation which is good.

[1hooper]

Hopefully safe with power.

[mysaladdays]

I've lived in 13 states. Thru hurricanes, famous snowfalls, major ice storms (w/no electricty for 10 full days), forest fires....., and tornadoes are a whole 'nother story to me. The only things that scare me are tornadoes, flash floods and earthquakes, because everything else you have at least a little warning about. I guess I can add avalanches.



I have a little bit of PSTD from living thru the tornado in Mena AR in 2009 and even photos can't do justice because the national guard had blocked off whole areas with high barriers, that nobody could see over, all you heard was chain saws going 24/7 cuz behind those barriers whole neighborhoods had been effectively scraped down to pavement.

Super cells can spin up out of nowhere. And you have like  3-6 minutes not 6 hours, not 24 hours, not 1 day, but  MINUTES. The devastation in a tornado that I was thru was mind-numbing.  


You come up out of a storm shelter, where the world still looked normal, and then, 10 minutes later.......you emerge into a new world and you think you are dreaming because you are in shock.



Photos that some of that in next post

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[mysaladdays]

This was the neighborhood before the tornado and the tree:



another before and after.... this was the tree in the months before probably around 2008 or so:

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