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Posted by Patrick Quinn March 12, 2006 at 1:16 p.m.

The Storm

Lazz called me to tell me about the storm. Everyone OK?

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  1. Joel (Joel Mathis) says…

    I've been working like a mofo since 8:30 a.m. ... on my day off. Otherwise, ok.

  2. Carmenilla (anonymous) says…

    Crazy fucking shit!

    I was downtown working this morning. Saw the spires from Plymouth hit the deck. Couldn't believe when I heard about (and later saw on my way home)the Replay's windows (or lack there of). Watched the debris fill the sky and the wind shift direction in a split second. I have never seen anything like it in my 20+ years as a Lawrencian. Was that a microburst or something? Sadly, Lawrence looks rough in a lot of places. South Park looks like a bulldozer went at the trees. What a loss! Overall, there seems to be widespread property damage. My poor parents have half a tree sitting on top of their house. A big limb came thru the ceiling of the last room they had remodeled. And they thought they were done with all the construction! Its truly heartbreaking. Hope everyone else is okay out there in L-town!!!

  3. davidryan (David Ryan) says…

    Now I know what they mean when they say "It sounds like a freight train going by."

    I woke to my windows shaking; heard the low rumble growing louder; opened my curtain to see things flying by horizontally. Scared the bejesus out of me.

    Then I went to work....

  4. nicole (anonymous) says…

    did anyone see the chemtrails overhead on saturday? they were seeding the clouds. I hope the experiment went well for them. The military openly claims to have weather control perfected by 2027. Even the Discovery channel did a special on it. Because of this, the U.N. has actually made weather control an illegal form of warfare.. of course we didn't get the memo.

    : ) wwww.infowars.com

  5. Dazie (Aileen Dingus) says…

    Nothing terribly exciting on my end of town, but I did have a hysterical 8 year old there for a while.

    Here's hoping everyone is safe.

  6. scary_manilow (anonymous) says…

    The Replay was toasted. Spent five hours helping them sort out all the broken glass and scrap metal... All the fucking gawkers brought their kids down and snapped pics of us while we were working, I thought about selling chunks of window and ceiling tile to the worthless bystanders-- "Look! Now you can own a piece of the Replay! You'll always have a rmeinde rof that special day when you stood around and watched people sweeping. Fucking amazing, huh?"

    almost cried when I saw the place. Probably the most damaged building on Mass. The only building downtown that seemed to suffer worse was the Plymouth.

    I woke up three hours after passing out drunk to something banging against my house. Tried to open the door and couldn't-- low pressure differential. The walls were all crackly-crack, like bits of sand hitting a snare drum. I was still wasted, so I didn't put it all together... until I looked outside and saw an uprooted oak tree rocketing down Connecticut street, all horizontal-like.

    I'm sure the neighbors were thrilled when I came lurching out of my house, stripped to my boxers, and started screaming "What the hell just happened here? A tornado?" Luckily, each end of our block was barricaded by fallen trees, so none of the rubberneckers could cruise by and see me hopping around like some confused HICK.

    Nice thing was, less than a second after the twister dropped, everyone was outside helping each other clean, making sure no one was hurt, etc... You don't get that kind of communal back-scratching in Alvamar-land. East side represent, yo.

  7. scary_manilow (anonymous) says…

    PS:

    Nicole, I hope you weren't fooling, because I wholeheartedly believe in that stuff.

  8. hittheroad (anonymous) says…

    Nicole, I saw that docu too ! Although, my favorite part was telling all my friends the next day that "The TV said Walmart's top item pre-hurricane is beer, and after, it's Pop Tarts".

    I wish I was still in town. I'm back home in California now and it's snowing at sea level. Somehow, I'd rather be one of those gawkers outside the Replay.

  9. OnShakedown (Chris Tackett) says…

    so was anyone hurt/killed by the storms? after seeing all the destruction, it's really amazing if that's the case.

    I heard the winds were a result of Julian Wrights' "tornadic dunks"

  10. ladylaw (Terry Bush) says…

    We were in KC when it hit (EVERY time I leave home it seems like this junk happens..sigh). So when we drove back into Lawrence (via K-10) we could see how thing were going, block by block. Started out by seeing a ton of debris on the fields (trash and paper everywhere). Then the larger road signs going into Lawrence began to look like bad art, all twisted and uprooted and bent. Then the trees began to be damaged, a little then a lot. Finally as we drove into Lawrence proper, where trees were down all together and windows had been "imploded".

    The neat thing was that only 3 hours after the storm hit, people were cleaning up and moving on; lots of limbs had already been carted to the curbs etc. It really spoke to me about the spirit of the people.

    South Park made me sad to see, with all the trees down or badly damaged. What ever hit had to be strong enough to twist trees (not just break or uproot them) and suck brick right off buildings. I just hope this is not the beginning of a really bad storm season....

  11. mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) says…

    I want a storm like that EVERY Sunday I work at KLWN. That was the most fun I've had in a while. Listening to the police scanner was a hoot (some guy threatened to blow himself and half his block up if Weststar didn't get his power turned back on right now), but my favorite was overhearing a Lazer jock defending himself to the station manager: "I know y'all want a funeral procession or something, but damn. Everybody's calling up acting like it's the end of the freaking world, so if a dude calls and says he saw a cat fly through a window, I'm putting him ON."

  12. sjwilson (anonymous) says…

    let the damn dogs out, musta been about twenty min. before the crap hit the fan. went back to bed, so when the storm struck i was in a state of light sleep, semi-consciousness. first heard rain, then hail, then an enormous popping sound. coulda been a transformer, or more likely the 20' x 15' x 5' chunk of tree that was wind separated from one of our enormous old cedars. lucky for us it fell rather benignly into the garden, missing both house and shed. the ladies of the house were in garden city at a dog show(sounds like the punchline to a joke). eddie, my nine year-old, is pretty frightened by storms most of the time, but kept it together pretty well. i was in the 1980(or was it '81 - time flies)tornado that hit s/west lawrence. destroyed my friend's home, sent me to the hospital with a back fulla glass. so, i'm still waiting for a storm to top that one.

    the downtown store was unscathed, except for everybody else's debris outside our doors. we opened and did a decent business.

    as i type this i'm witnessing liza minnelli's interview on larry king, which certainly confirms that our recent storm was not the worst possible disaster.

    take care,
    stevew.

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