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Whew. I was sitting on the tarmac in Atlanta on a Delta flight back to my home in Michigan last night just before takeoff, and noticed a lot of rain and lightning outside. So they closed the airport for perhaps 20 minutes, then re-opened when it let up. Right after we got airborne the pilot announced that a tornado had just struck downtown Atlanta, GA.

 

After we got throught the storm cell it smoothed out, but was very bumpy on the way up.

 

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~ Mark Twain

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I can't imagine the storm breaking hotels windows and having beds, furniture, suitcases, etc. flying out the windows. Glad I wasn't in the Georgia Dome. Good to hear you guys are safe.

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The same storm system passed through here this afternoon. Odd because our weather normally goes pretty much west to east but this sucker headed ene instead.

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One of my chickens Laid the same egg four times in the big winds we had on Wednesday! evened out ok for Thursday to get a fishing trip in though.

 

Joking aside I am glad you and your family where ok!

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Someone once said to me "Dont worry It could be worse." So I didn't, and It was!

 

 

 

 

انا آكل كل الفطائر

 

I made a vow today, to never again argue with an Idiot they have more expieriance at it than I so I always seem to lose!

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Glad you are safe severus. :thumbs:

 

We sat on a plane on the tarmac at Hartsfield, Atlanta, for 3 hours about 6 years ago.

There was a very violent electric storm right on top of us and the plane was really rocking with some of the gusts.

It was considered too dangerous to take us off the plane , but nobody wanted to comment on how dangerous it was to leave us on the plane.

 

When the storm abated, about 30 people chose not to fly and were allowed to leave the plane.

The departure was even further delayed as all their luggage had to be removed. :rolleyes:

"I gotta go where its warm, I gotta fly to saint somewhere "

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It was considered too dangerous to take us off the plane, but nobody wanted to comment on how dangerous it was to leave us on the plane.

 

Not dangerous at all. Planes get hit by lightening quite often when they're flying. If you think about it, you're sat in a bludy big Farraday cage, just as you are when you're in a car....

 

Glad you're safe too Severus :thumbs:

John S

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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Phew! Quite an experience. Pleased to hear you're none the worse for it though.

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Thanks all. I hope that region gets more rain this spring. They're dry as a bone and their lakes are going dry. BTW, I was returning from Rome from a week of sightseeing among the Eyties. Great fun, but it's good to be back where everyone speaks english and I don't have to fumble through a conversation.

 

I particularly enjoyed the ancient frescoes in the bordello at Pompei - anyone else seen them? :D

Be good and you will be lonely.
~ Mark Twain

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