we have a couple trees down but the house and the barn both look fine. It went through at about 12:30 here. I moved the kids play set over last night and worked feverishly to get it all tied down; the last time we had one of these it uprooted it and broke a bunch of pieces.
I'm about to ride to Summit Point, during which there is a chance that one will hit. I was in a rental Mazda 5 in Ohio in one last year, should be more fun on the scoot. I'll hunker down if weather approaches, but I honestly expect smooth riding, since there should be hours of notice.
Nothing here, just some rain and normal thunderstorms. Thankfully!
Hope everyone else is OK.
Nowhere close to rain here.
novaderrik wrote:z31maniac wrote:yeah... why does everything need a weird sounding name now?slowride wrote: They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".That's a severe thunderstorm in neck of the woods.
This from weather.com:
"The term derecho was coined in 1888, said Ken Pryor, a research meteorologist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in College Park, Md. The word is Spanish for "straight ahead" or "direct," Pryor said."
So hardly new. It may be worth noting that the spanish word "derecha" means "right" as opposed to left, while "derecho" means something completely different, as in "straight".
I didn't see any damage this morning (Dayton OH), unless you count my desktop's power supply. 
Power went out about 230am based on estimates of my blinking alarm clock that made me late.
Torrential rain still this morning, which caused my car's battery light to come on twice. That's a first.
In reply to 1988RedT2:
I still would have bet my marbles on TWC's bullE36 M3 "WE GOTTA NAME ERRYTHING" ideology.
slowride wrote: They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".
Mobile home = tornado egg.
Mobile home = tornado magnet
This from weather.com: "The term derecho was coined in 1888, said Ken Pryor, a research meteorologist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in College Park, Md. The word is Spanish for "straight ahead" or "direct," Pryor said." So hardly new. It may be worth noting that the spanish word "derecha" means "right" as opposed to left, while "derecho" means something completely different, as in "straight".
It took me a second to realize they didn't have satellites in 1888. 
As I sit here in Hurricane Alley, at the beginning of the storm season, and read about all of what you are all going through, I am very concerned that this might be an indicator of a bad season here. Don't know what, if any, connection there might be, but still enough to put some fear in my heart. I've been through 5 of them, but none really bad. Don't need that adventure again. Gee, Trinidad rarely gets hurricanes, never gets blizzards, and no hail. Hmmm.
In reply to DoctorBlade:
Uhhhh, they've had them since at least the 70's?
Pretty sure we only had one satellite in 1888, and that was the moon!
In reply to 1988RedT2:
Damn, I thought it said 1988.....my bad.
In other news, Thats no moon, It's a space station!!
In reply to cwh:
From what I've read/heard, it is supposed to be a pretty bad/active season this year. Let's hope they're wrong.
In reply to redhookfern:
What cities still need purged???
Toledo here. We got some pretty serious stuff south/west of town, it wasn't too bad where I live(northwest corner of Toledo area), just lots of lightning/thunder. Didn't rain as hard as I thought it would, definitely not as hard as the storms last year.
There were some tornado warnings issued throughout Lucas county and the surrounding southern counties, but I don't think anything actually touched down.
Our town here in Iowa was whacked by one of these in 2011-- sustained straight line winds of 110-130 mph. Lasted 10-15 minutes, and it was scary. Destroyed 75% of the trees, left folks in town without power for up to three weeks.
The silo down the road looked like something had been launch from it. Lots of it ended up in out front yard.
Ripped one of my garage door tracks off the wall-- but I replaced them with high lift tracks to make room for a lift!
We did not get a Derecho here (yet) but the storms that came through earlier undermined the Garden State Parkway around mile 53 and shut down the Northbound lanes due to a sinkhole
High winds in VA, but nothing like the Derecho that hit last year. Sadly, I did put the bike down when I came around a corner that turned out to be 3/4 covered in standing water. Sore today, bike is likely a write off, but hey, it could have been worse.
In reply to mistanfo:
Wow, hope you're alright! I worry about my dad when he's out riding and gets caught in rain.
I guess there was at least 5 touchdowns reported in NW Ohio.
Just rain in Detroit, but we're north of the worst forecast area.
We just got power back today, just a few hours ago. Many trees down on the lines near here, but it is localized in my neighborhood. A small hole in the garage where our power line came off the house and took a chunk with it, and another branch took out a section of fence on the other side of the house. All in all, not TOO bad.
In other news: looks like a busy weekend! 
1988RedT2 wrote:novaderrik wrote:This from weather.com: "The term derecho was coined in 1888, said Ken Pryor, a research meteorologist at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in College Park, Md. The word is Spanish for "straight ahead" or "direct," Pryor said." So hardly new. It may be worth noting that the spanish word "derecha" means "right" as opposed to left, while "derecho" means something completely different, as in "straight".z31maniac wrote:yeah... why does everything need a weird sounding name now?slowride wrote: They're referring to it as a "land hurricane". Apparently its going to hit my area within 15 minutes or so... 100 mph gusts and golf ball size hail. Also, we are to expect "significant damage to mobile homes".That's a severe thunderstorm in neck of the woods.
never heard this word until last year.. we've always just gotten really bad storms that cause trees to fly by sideways- no need for a goofy name.
why did they decide to drag this name out last year?
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