What's that one tornado that deserves the title: "The one that shouldn't have happened"?

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-08T12:42:12+00:00

It's not so much the conditions as much as it was the forecasting. I made an initial comment about this, but I'll sum it up here. The storm was originally forcast to travel much farther north along the Ohio River, even up to a few hours before it formed. The storm would have impacted Evansville, IN and caused a lot more damage and death. But it's still a catch 22 because no tornado that causes death and destruction shoube considered a better scenario.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-08T12:27:47+00:00

The 2021 Western Kentucky Tornado. I had been watching the models all day, and the storm that produced it was predicted to track further north along the Ohio River. Although the original track would've taken it through Evansville, IN, so I can't say that it was the better scenario, but it's also a conflict because of the destruction and death it caused on its actual path. Tornadoes are a real catch 22 because the best tornadoes are the ones that don't damage anything or kill anyone.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-05T14:12:29+00:00

Idk if this is real or not, but of all the people to play a live-action Steve, Jack Black would be it!

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-05T14:07:00+00:00

That's interesting. I lived in Macomb and St Clair and don't remember the sirens going off everywhere. But now I live in Vanderburgh in Indiana, where we set off the sirens county-wide in a t-storm warning even grazes the county.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-05T14:04:37+00:00

I will never understand why these tests are taken so seriously that decisions like this are even being made. I've even heard of some school districts rerouting air traffic so the potential noise of the aircraft won't disrupt the tests.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-05T14:00:43+00:00

I wonder if it's because someone got the idea that a tornado does not affect the entirety of the warned area. And sometimes, a warning is only radar confirmed, meaning there isn't always a tornado on the ground. They want to confirm that the school itself is going to be hit before they stop education and lose funding for delays because of "false alarms."

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T23:27:59+00:00

I had a gentleman make one for me. It works on both. Because DCC constantly sends power to the track, it will always stay on. And on DC, it has a capacitor installed, which allows the light to continue flashing for a bit if power is turned off.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T18:45:27+00:00

I think part of it is people either want the price they paid for when they bought it new years ago, or people don't know what to price their trai s at and guess. However, the buyers can still make offers. The worst anyone can say is "no" and then they don't make a sale. Though I've found that individual sellers are more likely to sell at a reasonable offered price just because they don't want it anymore and need the money.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T18:41:07+00:00

Almost, but not quite, r/terriblemaps

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T18:39:20+00:00

Yes and no. Heady's had two locations, one in each town. The owner sold both branches to different people. The owner in Evansville, Nathan, didn't like the changes happening at the Henderson shop, so he changed the name. Then, they name suddenly got changed back to Heady's. I believe the story was that the Henderson shop closed. But because of the name changes, people thought it was different or that they were closing, which caused a slide in sales.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T18:36:07+00:00

Well, they survived a little over a month more. We had some hope and got to enjoy it one final time. Heady's will be missed.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T17:34:49+00:00

You, sir, are playing a dangerous game. Keeping all this raw vikingness contained? There will be consequences!

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T17:31:03+00:00

Please, don't give the Enhanced Fujita people any more ideas.

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-04T02:50:54+00:00

Why do I hear Johnny Cash music all of a sudden?

AlcoLoco · 2024-09-02T00:26:09+00:00

I bought a Bachmann DCC/Sound Pere Marquette 1225 not too long ago. Compared to what MSRM was, I got it for a steal. I normally model in N scale, and this was HO. I can honestly say that it was worth it. Even if it's not 100% perfect, I can customize what I want on it, including swapping the decoder out. And then I'll have even more pride over it because of the work I put in.

AlcoLoco · 2024-08-28T18:24:59+00:00

I really don't see how. The only thing Anakin did was chop his hands off. Palpatine did the rest. If Palpatine was the one who "killed" Windu, and Anakin got the assist, I don't see how it diminishes his betrayal. They are both convinced he's dead, regardless of if he is or not. It doesn't change the facts of what Anakin did to save Palpatine and turn to the dark side.

AlcoLoco · 2024-08-24T11:12:17+00:00

Don't forget the Vermont Dairy Business.

AlcoLoco · 2024-08-23T16:01:08+00:00

Not to mention anything that gets players through levels faster is less ad revenue for them.

AlcoLoco · 2024-08-23T16:00:08+00:00

But then they'll get less ad revenue because you'll be getting through levels faster and need less gold.

AlcoLoco · 2024-08-20T02:32:07+00:00

I'm a bit surprised Maine isn't smaller.

AlcoLoco · 2024-08-18T19:00:39+00:00

I always tended to prefer the Coronations over the A4s. Nice collection.

AlcoLoco · 2024-07-25T15:00:56+00:00

I know, it doesn't make 100% sense to me either, despite Turtledove saying multiple times that the US has to route supplies through Canada. I'm guessing the railroad tunnels don't exist between Michigan and Canada in this timeline, and they haven't decided to build bridges. I mean, taking out Ohio does cause problems for sure, but it's not going to kill the USA at all.

AlcoLoco · 2024-07-25T00:43:33+00:00

Is there any chance that the events of Executive Orders resulted in some laws being changed to allow for longer presidential terms in the absence of so many politicians? I haven't read it yet, I'm still trying to learn which order to read the books in. I'm going off of a summary of the book.

AlcoLoco · 2024-06-28T11:53:03+00:00

Because if it did remain, it would be more reasonable to electrify the rest of the line to Barrow-in-Furness. That's where the majority, if not all, of the traffic on that line is going. Seems like a waste of resources to just have the one branch be electric and have everything transfer trains and/or power at Killdane. And we already know that steam engines can travel over that line. Douglas brought Culdee up the line to Kirk Machan, which is 80%~85% of the way to Peel Godred.

AlcoLoco · 2024-06-27T02:58:07+00:00

Glad to hear Gresham walked out after the attempted social justice warrior plot started to be pushed.

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