
Re: Tornado Moore, Oklahoma
Timberwolf wrote:
I live in the upper peninsula of Michigan, about a little over an hour north of Green Bay, WI. The worst severe weather I would get is heavy rain, the occasional hail and very strong winds enough to take off roof shingles and topple trees - usually straight line winds that is over in a few minutes. And even then, I don't get any severe weather often. I live next to Lake Michigan. As severe storms travel east and reach me, they dissipate as they reach the cooler lake air.
Snowstorms on the other hand, I get my share of those, but it is not like they wipe out a whole town like a tornado or hurricane would. I enjoy living here in the U.P. of Michigan.
I was in the UP many times, work related, Houghton-Hancock. I remember a large wooden billboard on the way to the airport with a giant thermometer painted on it, with various years snowfall marked on it. Cant remember the max but I think it was close to 200". One of the men I worked with told me that his grandfather had told him that they were often isolated for long periods in winter. They would dig a tunnel down main street with side tunnels to the doors of buildings.
My sympathies to those who suffered from that tornado. I've been in places a couple of days after they hit more than once and have seen the appalling damage even small ones a few yards wide can do. Weird, centre of houses turned into matchsticks, gable ends intact.
EDIT:
There was a 390" fall in the winter of 78/79.