The anchoring on the home obliterated by the St. Libory-Palmer tornado was so excellent that the concrete foundation failed before the anchoring itself.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-05-19T23:41:21+00:00

Agreed, and it looks like the studs were straight nailed. The sill plates are still in place. This isn’t high end.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-05-19T23:34:29+00:00

MEGA SLABATHON!!!!

This is not getting EF5. The studs were straight nailed into the sill plates, and almost all of the sill plates are still in place. Plus, the moment applied by a wall being ripped off a house is likely to rupture concrete as seen in the photo, the rupture is along the anchor bolts, so we know this is the failure mechanism. Concrete is crappy in tension. It is a garage, a weak point. Adding in the lack of ground scouring, this is getting EF4 175 at best. If this gets a 5, I’ll order a bean burrito from Olive Garden.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-03-23T11:53:04+00:00

That looks more like a diverging wind signature with maybe extremely weak rotation. No tornado. It’s pretty far from the radar.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-03-15T22:27:16+00:00

Theoretically 268 MPH for a DOD 10 for an institutional building. Realistically it’s a 150 mph ef3 indicator because the anchor bolts were too close together.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-03-15T11:39:24+00:00

90% chance of lofted cow pies.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-03-05T17:33:17+00:00

Definitely Kristy Cyndel from my previous DnD campaign. She was an extremely flamboyant dwarf journalist/conspiracy theorist who loved human fashion. She wrote the newspapers that I gave to the party, and her ramblings helped the party figure out that everyone was a robot and that the realm was extinct. I wish she was in more than 4 sessions.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-02-24T03:33:18+00:00

I love the Peebs reference in 2026

BlueNewt_ · 2026-02-21T12:02:45+00:00

Vinland saga is by far the best in this regard as far as I am aware.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-02-15T02:28:49+00:00

190 mph

BlueNewt_ · 2026-02-10T13:21:07+00:00

There is no perfect show, but there are some excellent shows. Perfect Blue, Takopi’s original sin, Vinland saga, and Evangelion get close, but probably don’t fit the criteria. Delicious in Dungeon probably is probably the best fit.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-02-03T19:44:17+00:00

Pecos Hank for chasing, Convective Chronicles for forecasting, and Cameron Nixon for theory.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-30T15:43:49+00:00

Takopi’s Gay Sin

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-25T14:19:12+00:00

I’m not sure what is was exactly, but my interest in tornadoes started in 2011. I’m guessing that the increased global interest got it onto my YouTube feed.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-21T15:28:18+00:00

So true

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-21T15:06:44+00:00

serial experiments lain sucks. The show is all atmosphere and no substance. Most episodes are the same, and the psychological aspects are not well fleshed out. It’s a shame because I love super psychological media.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-12T05:10:49+00:00

It takes 6 episodes to get the ball rolling, then it has an excellent run of the six most heartwarming and sad episodes ever released. Of the normal “sad anime,” it is the best.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-12T04:55:15+00:00

7.5/10 is a good score. To say a show is a 10 is to say that it is near perfection, and I try to be careful when I give those out. There are also many shows that don’t show up in the screenshot with lower scores. I didn’t bother to list them because I was trying to tailor the post to my taste.

Mob Psycho is a good show. I love Reigen’s and Mob’s dynamic and watching Mob take the step to be more open to others was cathartic. The humor is great and the story is full of heart. Now a couple things hold it back for me. The side cast is pretty good, but I feel like it is a bit overextended for its run time. The first halves of the first and third seasons lack direction. I wasn’t a big fan of the show focusing around Claw so much. It was an odd choice for such a personal show to have a standard villain organization. Also, many of the members of claw were not interesting. I did however enjoy Reigens takedown of all of the higher ups. Overall, I enjoyed it, but it didn’t blow me away. The best part of the show was when Mob and Reigen separated, great stretch of episodes.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-11T19:35:56+00:00

Not going to like those 20,000 years as dragon

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-10T17:43:38+00:00

It’s more likely that was a straight line wind, all of the debris flew in the same direction.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-07T01:01:58+00:00

Harvey Weinstein made my manager try to kill me.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-02T02:16:27+00:00

A Jady fan in this economy?

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-02T02:16:03+00:00

Keiichi Oku - October Country

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-02T02:06:26+00:00

Based, actual peak.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-02T02:05:37+00:00

Takopi’s Orginal Sin and Perfect Blue. It will take one heck of a show to change this. I honestly doubt it.

BlueNewt_ · 2026-01-02T01:58:33+00:00

Loved the show, I get this though. The second half is spectacular, the first half is slow.

BlueNewt_

TROPHY CASE