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Waterspout on LI today!
« on: August 07, 2008, 01:51:33 PM »
Can you imagine if this monster hit your pond?  :o
This happened around 1:40 today, still have a severe weather alert going on...coming my way!
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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2008, 02:04:54 PM »
Wow, that's a neat shot! I surely hope it would not go to your part of town.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2008, 04:23:37 PM »
Oh my word Joyce!! :o Did you take that picture? Was there any damage done? That stuff is so scarey.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2008, 04:47:25 PM »
Nope, it's taken from the Newsday Website.
But check out what is about to hit...more water spouts coming. We live in the town of Southold.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/homeandgarden/pets/map/interactive/11971?from=36hr_maps&zoom=8&interactiveMapLayer=radar

It is completely black here, orangey-red lightning to the NW.  :o
We may go powerless for a while.  :o
BIG thunder going on.  :o
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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2008, 06:38:52 PM »
That is one wicked shot.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2008, 07:04:09 PM »
Yes, it is, and there were several more waterspouts today. :o
I am hoping someone caught shots of them all.  :search:
We are getting a little break in between the storms right now.
Still crazy lightning and thunder, but the monsoons have eased off for now.
Power went off and on a few times because we are so far off into the woods...very rural here, miles from the main part of town.
Took some shots of our gutters waterfalling because it was raining harder than they could drain.

It was about 80* when this started and is 61* now.  Put sweats on in August! :o
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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2008, 07:53:31 PM »
It might be a Waterspout but it is a tornado on water to me. I used to live in Key West and they would just watch them and I was more of Yikes lets get out of here.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #7 on: August 08, 2008, 05:40:02 AM »
So it is called waterspout when it is over water.  What if it goes on land?  Does it become tornado then?  That's a great pix, Joyce but sure is scary looking though.  I am sure it is deadly as well if one gets underneath it.  :-\  Here in KS, if we see the sky turning green, it is time to head down to the basement.  I hope you have better weather today.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2008, 07:20:01 AM »
All is well this morning...lots of branches down, and a couple trees, didn't really get a chance to drive around yet.
At work now.

Yeah, I agree with you that it's just a tornado over water.

Kuan, I spent 5 years of my life in Iowa, and we had our own tornado shelter, stocked with enough food and water for a month.
We lived on a culdesac and each culdesac had a siren that would go off when it sensed enough of a pressure change.

I remember the sky looking like it was bubbling upside down, green, and I remember an orangey and purple color too just before tornadoes.

Once the A&P was hit 2 blocks from us, roof blown off and everything inside sucked up and then spewed all over the neighborhood.
My mom sent my brother and me (we were 5 & 6 years old) out with our Red Wagons to pick up any canned goods we found laying around the culdesac, as long as they still had labels.
It was disgusting because the meat department also was sucked up and dumped all over, and there were chickens, steaks, sausages and all sorts of meat department items way up in the trees, draped on the power lines, the roofs, and all the other places where food could get dumped by a tornado. It was really hot....and really stinky!  :o
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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #9 on: August 08, 2008, 08:40:29 AM »
Yup, Joyce, when the sky turns purple or orange, lookout!.  Saw that in Oklahoma (1960)  and in Illinois (Palm Sunday, April 11, 1965) for example.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2008, 11:25:06 AM »
Cool photo!  I hope no one's boat or anything else was damaged.

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Re: Waterspout on LI today!
« Reply #11 on: August 08, 2008, 01:15:23 PM »
WOW !!!!!  :no: hope it clears up for you......but the photo is awesome but only if it passes your pond..... o(   lorraine
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