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    Post by UFAlien Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:28 am

    On Thursday, a small, quick storm hit New York City. Inside the city, the storm produced two tornadoes and a macroburst.

    The first tornado was an EF0, the weakest classification of tornado. Another tornado touched down later, a slightly stronger EF1. The second tornado killed a 30-year-old woman when it dropped a tree on the car she was in. Luckily, she was the only person killed in the storm.

    The most damage was caused by the macroburst, a large downward burst of wind from the storm. These winds reached up to 125mph.

    Hundreds, possibly thousands of trees were uprooted by the storm. 37,000 people lost power, at least six houses had roofs torn off, and transportation was widely disrupted.

    Source:

    http://www.lohud.com/article/20100918/NEWS05/100918002/-1/newsfront/Authorities--2-tornadoes-struck-NYC-during-storm-

    Here you can see a video two young, foul-mouthed residents took during the storm. You can see the massive wall of rain approaching, and at one point they appear to be filming the macroburst (despite their repeated insistence they're in a tornado).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCE_qiy-sOQ
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    Post by nirvana Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:41 am

    [mod edit] Advertising is bad. You've been banned. Politely stop using proxies.
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    Post by Lord Grey II Sat Sep 18, 2010 10:48 am

    UFAlien wrote:On Thursday, a small, quick storm hit New York City. Inside the city, the storm produced two tornadoes and a macroburst.

    The first tornado was an EF0, the weakest classification of tornado. Another tornado touched down later, a slightly stronger EF1. The second tornado killed a 30-year-old woman when it dropped a tree on the car she was in. Luckily, she was the only person killed in the storm.

    The most damage was caused by the macroburst, a large downward burst of wind from the storm. These winds reached up to 125mph.

    Hundreds, possibly thousands of trees were uprooted by the storm. 37,000 people lost power, at least six houses had roofs torn off, and transportation was widely disrupted.

    Source:

    http://www.lohud.com/article/20100918/NEWS05/100918002/-1/newsfront/Authorities--2-tornadoes-struck-NYC-during-storm-

    Here you can see a video two young, foul-mouthed residents took during the storm. You can see the massive wall of rain approaching, and at one point they appear to be filming the macroburst (despite their repeated insistence they're in a tornado).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCE_qiy-sOQ

    Also, this would be better served in the News thread, no?
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    Post by Teasealot Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:55 am

    Threads merged.
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    Post by Cuboos Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:29 pm

    small tornadoes and micro bursts hitting big cities isn't really big news. i use to live in Phoenix AZ, they've had a few micro bursts which usually happens during the monsoon season.
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    Post by Teasealot Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:10 pm

    Cuboos wrote:small tornadoes and micro bursts hitting big cities isn't really big news. i use to live in Phoenix AZ, they've had a few micro bursts which usually happens during the monsoon season.

    Despite not bein' big news, I'd still be upset to be in rush hour traffic, wonderin' if the small tornadoes are goin' to be strong enough to lift mah car, and hurl it down the street, or into the buildin' next to me. Or lift someone else's car and hurl it into mine. Also the thought of street signs bein' turned into spears, trees and mailboxes becomin' the windborne eqivalent of trebuchet ammo, shattered glass turnin' into storms of shuriken, and slabs of roofin' turnin' into crushin' blades.
    They were very lucky only one person died, considerin'.
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    Post by UFAlien Mon Sep 20, 2010 7:21 am

    Cuboos wrote:small tornadoes and micro bursts hitting big cities isn't really big news. i use to live in Phoenix AZ, they've had a few micro bursts which usually happens during the monsoon season.

    Well, Cuboos, it was a macroburst, not a microburst. Also, Phoenix is right next to Tornado Alley, and New York City is about as far away from it as you can get in the continental U.S... so yes, it is news.
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    Post by Teasealot Mon Sep 20, 2010 1:48 pm

    UFAlien wrote:
    Cuboos wrote:small tornadoes and micro bursts hitting big cities isn't really big news. i use to live in Phoenix AZ, they've had a few micro bursts which usually happens during the monsoon season.

    Well, Cuboos, it was a macroburst, not a microburst. Also, Phoenix is right next to Tornado Alley, and New York City is about as far away from it as you can get in the continental U.S... so yes, it is news.

    Also the architecture of New York has the unintentional ability to break up incomin' wet weather. New York has its own microclimate, creatin' its own weather.
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    Post by Teasealot Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:34 pm

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    Post by Cuboos Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:11 am

    i saw it, despite what people say... i still think it was a plane.
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    Post by Nilo Kaal Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:38 am

    I didn't touch nuthin. >.>
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    Post by SD Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:14 pm

    Nilo Kaal wrote:I didn't touch nuthin. >.>

    You're such a terrible liar.
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    Post by Lord Grey II Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:19 pm

    Nilo Kaal wrote:I didn't touch nuthin. >.>

    That's a double negative. You're admitting to touching things now, are you? >:U
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    Post by Nilo Kaal Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:39 pm

    I plead the fifth. ._.
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    Post by Cypher Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:02 pm

    http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-americanflagbike11122010,0,3045879.htmlstory

    I'm not going to jump on the judgement wagon until more of this story comes to light, but if it really is because the non-American students complained...wtf? It's an American school and an American flag. Actually, it's more than that; why should anyone not be allowed to fly the flag of their native country, at school or not?
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    Post by SD Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:02 pm

    Cypher wrote:http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-americanflagbike11122010,0,3045879.htmlstory

    I'm not going to jump on the judgement wagon until more of this story comes to light, but if it really is because the non-American students complained...wtf? It's an American school and an American flag. Actually, it's more than that; why should anyone not be allowed to fly the flag of their native country, at school or not?

    Well it is in California and they've always been screwed in the head.
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    Post by Cuboos Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:40 pm

    SD wrote:
    Cypher wrote:http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-americanflagbike11122010,0,3045879.htmlstory

    I'm not going to jump on the judgement wagon until more of this story comes to light, but if it really is because the non-American students complained...wtf? It's an American school and an American flag. Actually, it's more than that; why should anyone not be allowed to fly the flag of their native country, at school or not?

    Well it is in California and they've always been screwed in the head.

    hey.... :'(

    anyway... yeah, Californians, especially southern Californians are just a little too tolerant to minorities -- granted minorities do deserve every right of an american citizen. Most of us are just a little to Liberal that any one with conservative ideals is often looked at as a possible problem bringing. Also we have ridicules gun laws, seriously ammo is expensive.
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    Post by Cypher Sat Nov 13, 2010 5:01 pm

    Cuboos wrote:
    hey.... :'(

    anyway... yeah, Californians, especially southern Californians are just a little too tolerant to minorities -- granted minorities do deserve every right of an american citizen. Most of us are just a little to Liberal that any one with conservative ideals is often looked at as a possible problem bringing. Also we have ridicules gun laws, seriously ammo is expensive.

    That and pretty much every chemical in the world is "known to the State of California to cause cancer". Maybe it's just the state.
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    Post by Cuboos Sat Nov 13, 2010 7:26 pm

    Cypher wrote:
    Cuboos wrote:
    hey.... :'(

    anyway... yeah, Californians, especially southern Californians are just a little too tolerant to minorities -- granted minorities do deserve every right of an american citizen. Most of us are just a little to Liberal that any one with conservative ideals is often looked at as a possible problem bringing. Also we have ridicules gun laws, seriously ammo is expensive.

    That and pretty much every chemical in the world is "known to the State of California to cause cancer". Maybe it's just the state.

    yeah... my state is full of pussies...
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    Post by Lord Grey II Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:35 am

    Well that's weird. My state is full of dicks.
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    Post by Cuboos Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:00 am

    Lord Grey II wrote:Well that's weird. My state is full of dicks.

    they are according to California at least!
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    Post by Cypher Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:54 pm

    Cuboos wrote:
    Lord Grey II wrote:Well that's weird. My state is full of dicks.

    they are according to California at least!

    My family lives in D.C.

    We have all of the above and more.
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    Post by Lord Grey II Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:09 pm

    Insane woman overreacts; news at 11

    It's things like this that make me wonder about the mental health of the average person.

    I mean, I already know and accept that people are stupid (some more than others, of course), but do I need to start thinking that people are insane as well?
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    Post by Teasealot Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:28 pm

    At least in America, the teachers can still smack the kids who are causin' trouble. Here, in Britain, if a teacher did the same as the teacher in the story, she'd be in jail for child abuse and assault!!!
    Kids get away with too much shit nowadays, some of them really do need a good punchin' to get them to realise that they aren't God's Gift to anyone.

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