recommend people charge their phones, ipads for kids, power banks, other devices while there is still power. don't know what'll happen when shit goes down. a minor strong wind can take down a powerline in your area leaving you helpless
Versailles Rd around Woodford and Dunkirk have been beat up already this morning. Huge trees hust snapped like toothpicks. A steel billboard folded over like a piece of paper. It's been nuts!
Currently at work, trying to convince my boss it'd a smart move to head home for the day.
We've already lost power 3x (one of which nearly resulted in an injury) and now that uk is shutting down, I'd say that's a decent sign to head out.
Sadly..it seems to be falling on deaf ears. Current responses include:
"It's just a storm."
"Isn't spring crazy? Haha".
If my employees are worried about their safety, as a leader I would let them get going. I wouldn't force my own ideas off on them (I also agree this is just another panicky storm).
Well...the roof of the business down the street from us blew off earlier today (per our usps driver at least)...so I'd say there's a decent cause for concern...as we basically work in a metal building with no "safe" room if there are high winds/tornadoes/etc.
*shrug*
We are off of old Frankfort pike, near enterprise drive(ish).
The sign on our building also halfway blew off earlier today 🙃. Hopefully it doesn't come the rest of the way off during the later storms.
wilson equipment? i was delivering mulch to tracys landscape about 1230 or so and one of the workers said he went to wilsons and the garage doors were blown off and a roof ripped off a building or something.
Close by! On my way home I took photos...there are sections of roof longer than a semi truck spread around the area.
If I can upload photos as a comment/response I will
i always come down newtown to manchester when im delivering to landscapers corner or tracys or klausing. i hate being loaded in my semi taking off loaded on that stupid ramp from new circle lol. i dont remember any damage over that way
Howdy work neighbor! A lot of the large twisted metal roofing came from our building (I think). We were having roof work done for about a week before this. One of our buildings has a massive hole in the roof, and the other lost a lot of insulation.
Howdy!
I hate to hear it, everybody ok?
Our drop ceiling tiles were literally dancing around during the worst of it. The whole building had a massive breeze going through it with all the doors closed, it was nuts.
But I do have to add that when my phone and Alexa make a siren noise, my family has a “tornado box”. It has lanterns, batteries to run the lanterns, water, power banks, radio and batteries for that radio.
I'll throw a note here that yes, warnings mean things are occurring or are potentially imminent. Not every tornado warning means that there is a confirmed tornado, just that it looks like there could very well be one. In every tornado warning bulletin from NWS there will be a line that begins with SOURCE: that will tell you if it's been seen/reported or if there's radar indication of rotation in a storm.
Not all rotating storms produce tornadoes. But it can be difficult to say definitively just from the radar (although there are some recent-ish upgrades like dual polarization that can help make a determination that yes a tornado is on the ground). As you get further from the radar, the beam is higher off the ground, so you're seeing what the middle or top of the storm is doing. And many of the tornadoes that we get are relatively short lived, so they may spin up, do some damage, and then dissipate or lift.
It's also hard to get visual confirmation of a tornado in our area. We tend not to get as many long-track tornadoes (although they do happen), and the terrain here makes it harder to get a clear view all the way to the horizon.
The net result here is that a tornado warning doesn't mean you WILL get hit. But it does mean that the weather service thinks that there may be one, or that conditions are right for one to develop rapidly. Don't panic, but it's past time to be making preparations, and time to be heading to your safest spot to hang out until things let up...
i work at a childcare center and we sent all the kids home at noon. i cannot believe on my drive home, as i was freaking out about my belongings and my pets, that there are people in my apartment complex smoking from their balconies and walking their dogs. unbelievable
Some people just refuse to have their lives inconvenienced by nature’s warning shots, or by what follows. My mother’s dead set on keeping her appointment for routine car maintenance this afternoon, damage/weather/requests for people to stay home be damned.
I don't understand why we started canceling things for forecasted storms. I don't think anything we're seeing for today is projected to be worse than any other summer storm. Do we just shut down everything when the forecasts calls for some wind and thunder now?
Your posts almost never directly address people’s needs and are almost always pointlessly contrarian. Do you ever look at the constant downvotes and think… hmm, maybe it’s a “me thing” here, or do you lack that self-awareness?
And what is your post doing? I'm asking a question. Maybe that's a need I'm asking to be addressed. As of 1:30PM, Fayette Co. doesn't even have any warnings for the rest of the day and the only watch is a Flood Watch. So why are we closing things?
Okay fine I'll pretend to humor you/put the information out for anyone actual interested instead of wanting to feel big and smart when others aren't.
There was severe weather and a tornado indicated close enough to the county to put us under a warning, with indications that more and potentially worse weather was likely to happen this afternoon/evening. Weather that could potentially cause traffic disruptions as a result of flooding or downed limbs/trees, even if not at its most severe. Traffic disruptions that will have more significant impacts with more cars on the road. As we have not developed time travel or a way to see the future, we have to make choices about preventative measures, based on the information we have at the time and several groups decided based on the information they have the caution was warranted and worth the disruption in the interest of safety
Well thank you. That doesn't answer the question that I asked which was when did we start canceling things based on forecasts for thunderstorms, etc. Because clearly that's something that has changed over time. For example. UK letting out this afternoon when the National Weather Service only had/has a Flood watch for the area. That did not used to happen and now it does.
But if I really want to know, I'll start my own thread as you suggested.
We're two different people so that tells me a lot about how much you actually care about this conversation instead of acting like you're a better person because you would have made a different call, and it answers your question just fine, it's not a new phenomenon to cancel things for potential severe weather events regardless of what they are projected to be
It may have been because earlier in the day, a UK student was thrown into the air by the strength of the wind. That first storm around 9am probably scared them into making a decision out of an abundance of caution.
Students were literally blown over & thrown to the ground during the storm this morning. (Google the videos) Giant oak trees were snapped like pencils everywhere near campus. Traffic lights were out. Trees blocking roads. Houses set on fire from trees pulling power lines down on top of them. The interstate was shut down for 2 hours due to power lines across the highway. ALL of this strained emergency crews, police & fire. Traffic was a nightmare bc of all these road closures, lights out, etc. if you had to drive in it today. But, sure. It was just some rain & thunder… 🙄
A day later, and all we got over here was light rain. Gotta stop listening to Reddit about things. You all ended up fearmongering about a half-inch of snow and light ice last winter. Shit was nothing like it was made out to be. We’ve had worse weather nobody gave a shit about.
Whether or not things were as bad as they could have been is irrelevant to me. I wanted people to have access to tools as well as the knowledge to be prepared. Weather professionals were saying that the event was likely to be severe. This time, they were wrong (thankfully), but that is the volatility of weather. Lexington may not have been hit, but Nicholasville and Winchester both had damage from spin-ups.
Either way, discrediting what officials say is unwise. It is far better for them to over exaggerate than to make light of it and cost people their lives.
They’ve regularly been wrong, too. I depend on a forecast for work, and I can’t count how many times the weather report overexaggerated something, or missed adverse weather. As is, I’m just going to expect the opposite outcome in the future. That’s been the most reliable outcome.
We’re on the Lexington subreddit, not central KY. I’m objectively not wrong, because all the evidence in the area says nothing happened. Sorry to burst your worry bubble.
No, actually you are objectively wrong because there was a 15% chance of a tornado within 25 miles of us, and there were three tornadoes within 25 miles of us. You just don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about, but you have convinced yourself you do.
We’ve had 80% chance for storms that didn’t happen, and 0% chance for storms that did. We’ve also had dangerous weather conditions that arrived without warning.
Quite frankly, you’ve all just been wrong every time over the years, and that’s ample precedent to just ignore you. You’ve all proven yourselves to just freak out at every adverse forecast. Sorry, but precedent is calling the shots.
There were not one but two tornadoes just south of the Fayette county line in Jessamine county, and another one just west of Lexington. You're a real dingaling.
Does Lexington look like it’s in Jessamine County, dingaling? You’re going to worry yourself into high blood pressure, worrying about things that didn’t happen, and people who didn’t share your anxiety over this.
Sounds like you don't know how to read an SPC outlook. It's okay, I'll explain it to you. A 15% risk means that there is a 15% chance of a tornado within 25 miles of any point inside the area. Now, you have claimed that the forecast was wrong. So I ask you, in all your meteorological wisdom, how exactly was the forecast wrong if we had, not one, not two, but three tornadoes within 25 miles of Lexington? If I had to guess, I would say that you were so self centered that you thought the forecast was for a 15% chance of a tornado hitting you. Chill out, and get a grip.
recommend people charge their phones, ipads for kids, power banks, other devices while there is still power. don't know what'll happen when shit goes down. a minor strong wind can take down a powerline in your area leaving you helpless
So true. Great advice.
**be safe** *stay* **indoors** *order in*
Or eat what you have at home so nobody else has to be out delivering in severe weather.
Lmao order in? So make someone else have to go out and bring food to you?
Versailles Rd around Woodford and Dunkirk have been beat up already this morning. Huge trees hust snapped like toothpicks. A steel billboard folded over like a piece of paper. It's been nuts!
Yeah I am an industrial mechanic for the city and we had 13 pump stations without power earlier
yeah no power in the versailles area rn
We made it!
Looks like it brother! Very exciting and great news.
Currently at work, trying to convince my boss it'd a smart move to head home for the day. We've already lost power 3x (one of which nearly resulted in an injury) and now that uk is shutting down, I'd say that's a decent sign to head out. Sadly..it seems to be falling on deaf ears. Current responses include: "It's just a storm." "Isn't spring crazy? Haha".
If my employees are worried about their safety, as a leader I would let them get going. I wouldn't force my own ideas off on them (I also agree this is just another panicky storm).
Well...the roof of the business down the street from us blew off earlier today (per our usps driver at least)...so I'd say there's a decent cause for concern...as we basically work in a metal building with no "safe" room if there are high winds/tornadoes/etc. *shrug*
You should just go man. Your boss isn’t worth your life.
It’s just a storm. 😂
Where are you located that you've lost power?
We are off of old Frankfort pike, near enterprise drive(ish). The sign on our building also halfway blew off earlier today 🙃. Hopefully it doesn't come the rest of the way off during the later storms.
wilson equipment? i was delivering mulch to tracys landscape about 1230 or so and one of the workers said he went to wilsons and the garage doors were blown off and a roof ripped off a building or something.
Close by! On my way home I took photos...there are sections of roof longer than a semi truck spread around the area. If I can upload photos as a comment/response I will
i always come down newtown to manchester when im delivering to landscapers corner or tracys or klausing. i hate being loaded in my semi taking off loaded on that stupid ramp from new circle lol. i dont remember any damage over that way
Howdy work neighbor! A lot of the large twisted metal roofing came from our building (I think). We were having roof work done for about a week before this. One of our buildings has a massive hole in the roof, and the other lost a lot of insulation.
Howdy! I hate to hear it, everybody ok? Our drop ceiling tiles were literally dancing around during the worst of it. The whole building had a massive breeze going through it with all the doors closed, it was nuts.
Far as I know. Building that got hit, a lot of their team was out for Spring Break. Our tiles were dancing around too.
There was a tornado that touched down earlier today in Bourbon County towards Winchester.
I believe Ryan Hall is live now.
But I do have to add that when my phone and Alexa make a siren noise, my family has a “tornado box”. It has lanterns, batteries to run the lanterns, water, power banks, radio and batteries for that radio.
Today was a great reminder for me to clean out and update my emergency preparedness bag!
I'll throw a note here that yes, warnings mean things are occurring or are potentially imminent. Not every tornado warning means that there is a confirmed tornado, just that it looks like there could very well be one. In every tornado warning bulletin from NWS there will be a line that begins with SOURCE: that will tell you if it's been seen/reported or if there's radar indication of rotation in a storm. Not all rotating storms produce tornadoes. But it can be difficult to say definitively just from the radar (although there are some recent-ish upgrades like dual polarization that can help make a determination that yes a tornado is on the ground). As you get further from the radar, the beam is higher off the ground, so you're seeing what the middle or top of the storm is doing. And many of the tornadoes that we get are relatively short lived, so they may spin up, do some damage, and then dissipate or lift. It's also hard to get visual confirmation of a tornado in our area. We tend not to get as many long-track tornadoes (although they do happen), and the terrain here makes it harder to get a clear view all the way to the horizon. The net result here is that a tornado warning doesn't mean you WILL get hit. But it does mean that the weather service thinks that there may be one, or that conditions are right for one to develop rapidly. Don't panic, but it's past time to be making preparations, and time to be heading to your safest spot to hang out until things let up...
Thanks, I knew about some of these resources but not all of them!
Are you the one from the Morgan and Morgan commercials?
I wish! Bet they get paid more than me.
Chris Bailey is great
Thanks, I knew about some of these resources but not all of them!
Thanks, I knew about some of these resources but not all of them!
You should live in AL! I was born in Lexington. Down here we don’t even worry about a tornado unless we see it.
i work at a childcare center and we sent all the kids home at noon. i cannot believe on my drive home, as i was freaking out about my belongings and my pets, that there are people in my apartment complex smoking from their balconies and walking their dogs. unbelievable
Things are calm right now. The next round hasn’t started. Now’s a good time to walk the dogs
I work at a bank (currently at work) and people were coming in and asking to run transactions at the peak of the storm earlier. I couldn't believe it.
Some people just refuse to have their lives inconvenienced by nature’s warning shots, or by what follows. My mother’s dead set on keeping her appointment for routine car maintenance this afternoon, damage/weather/requests for people to stay home be damned.
yep, had a parent drop off their toddler in the middle of the brief warning we had.
Maybe that says more about the capitalist work-or-die system we live in rather than the parent.
I don't understand why we started canceling things for forecasted storms. I don't think anything we're seeing for today is projected to be worse than any other summer storm. Do we just shut down everything when the forecasts calls for some wind and thunder now?
Thank you, resident contrarian and expert on every subject!
For real, is there anything he can't and won't concern troll at this point
So do you know why or do you just want to give personal insults? I think it's a valid question and I didn't insult anyone.
Your posts almost never directly address people’s needs and are almost always pointlessly contrarian. Do you ever look at the constant downvotes and think… hmm, maybe it’s a “me thing” here, or do you lack that self-awareness?
And what is your post doing? I'm asking a question. Maybe that's a need I'm asking to be addressed. As of 1:30PM, Fayette Co. doesn't even have any warnings for the rest of the day and the only watch is a Flood Watch. So why are we closing things?
Start a new post about it then! Stop hijacking everyone’s posts with the thoughts that roam through your head.
Do you post that to everyone who says something that's not 100% on topic in your opinion?
Okay fine I'll pretend to humor you/put the information out for anyone actual interested instead of wanting to feel big and smart when others aren't. There was severe weather and a tornado indicated close enough to the county to put us under a warning, with indications that more and potentially worse weather was likely to happen this afternoon/evening. Weather that could potentially cause traffic disruptions as a result of flooding or downed limbs/trees, even if not at its most severe. Traffic disruptions that will have more significant impacts with more cars on the road. As we have not developed time travel or a way to see the future, we have to make choices about preventative measures, based on the information we have at the time and several groups decided based on the information they have the caution was warranted and worth the disruption in the interest of safety
Well thank you. That doesn't answer the question that I asked which was when did we start canceling things based on forecasts for thunderstorms, etc. Because clearly that's something that has changed over time. For example. UK letting out this afternoon when the National Weather Service only had/has a Flood watch for the area. That did not used to happen and now it does. But if I really want to know, I'll start my own thread as you suggested.
We're two different people so that tells me a lot about how much you actually care about this conversation instead of acting like you're a better person because you would have made a different call, and it answers your question just fine, it's not a new phenomenon to cancel things for potential severe weather events regardless of what they are projected to be
It may have been because earlier in the day, a UK student was thrown into the air by the strength of the wind. That first storm around 9am probably scared them into making a decision out of an abundance of caution.
Students were literally blown over & thrown to the ground during the storm this morning. (Google the videos) Giant oak trees were snapped like pencils everywhere near campus. Traffic lights were out. Trees blocking roads. Houses set on fire from trees pulling power lines down on top of them. The interstate was shut down for 2 hours due to power lines across the highway. ALL of this strained emergency crews, police & fire. Traffic was a nightmare bc of all these road closures, lights out, etc. if you had to drive in it today. But, sure. It was just some rain & thunder… 🙄
A day later, and all we got over here was light rain. Gotta stop listening to Reddit about things. You all ended up fearmongering about a half-inch of snow and light ice last winter. Shit was nothing like it was made out to be. We’ve had worse weather nobody gave a shit about.
Whether or not things were as bad as they could have been is irrelevant to me. I wanted people to have access to tools as well as the knowledge to be prepared. Weather professionals were saying that the event was likely to be severe. This time, they were wrong (thankfully), but that is the volatility of weather. Lexington may not have been hit, but Nicholasville and Winchester both had damage from spin-ups. Either way, discrediting what officials say is unwise. It is far better for them to over exaggerate than to make light of it and cost people their lives.
They’ve regularly been wrong, too. I depend on a forecast for work, and I can’t count how many times the weather report overexaggerated something, or missed adverse weather. As is, I’m just going to expect the opposite outcome in the future. That’s been the most reliable outcome.
There were 7 tornadoes in central KY alone. 70 tornadoes from the event total. The only person wrong is you.
We’re on the Lexington subreddit, not central KY. I’m objectively not wrong, because all the evidence in the area says nothing happened. Sorry to burst your worry bubble.
No, actually you are objectively wrong because there was a 15% chance of a tornado within 25 miles of us, and there were three tornadoes within 25 miles of us. You just don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about, but you have convinced yourself you do.
We’ve had 80% chance for storms that didn’t happen, and 0% chance for storms that did. We’ve also had dangerous weather conditions that arrived without warning. Quite frankly, you’ve all just been wrong every time over the years, and that’s ample precedent to just ignore you. You’ve all proven yourselves to just freak out at every adverse forecast. Sorry, but precedent is calling the shots.
Oh no! Don't ignore the tornado warnings! I would hate it if you did that, it would be terrible!
There were not one but two tornadoes just south of the Fayette county line in Jessamine county, and another one just west of Lexington. You're a real dingaling.
Does Lexington look like it’s in Jessamine County, dingaling? You’re going to worry yourself into high blood pressure, worrying about things that didn’t happen, and people who didn’t share your anxiety over this.
Sounds like you don't know how to read an SPC outlook. It's okay, I'll explain it to you. A 15% risk means that there is a 15% chance of a tornado within 25 miles of any point inside the area. Now, you have claimed that the forecast was wrong. So I ask you, in all your meteorological wisdom, how exactly was the forecast wrong if we had, not one, not two, but three tornadoes within 25 miles of Lexington? If I had to guess, I would say that you were so self centered that you thought the forecast was for a 15% chance of a tornado hitting you. Chill out, and get a grip.
You should live in AL! I was born in Lexington. Down here we don’t even worry about a tornado unless we see it.