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The Bob Cesca Show: The All New Material Girl

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Nerdy Fish9/05/2017 5:49:51 pm PDT

re: #156 ObserverArt

Oh you are talking about tornados with the “wall of wind bit.”

Being from Ohio, I too am familiar with tornados.

But I was not familiar with another wall of wind that hit a big portion of America from Iowa to the east coast.

A derecho - straight line wind storm.

I got caught trying to get home from where I worked in Delaware county about 20 miles. The most nerve racking dangerous drive ever. I didn’t know the type of storm and had no idea the intensity when our company owner called and told us to get the hell going because he saw it coming.

I couldn’t outrun it. So, I got stuck right in it dodging flying objects, other cars that had drivers freaking out, traffic lights out, debris stacking against the walls on the freeway, etc.

June 2012 North American derecho

A bit of the Wiki page about Ohio:

Yeah, those are fun too. Wind speeds aren’t as high as a tornado, but it’s basically a mini hurricane. One of those, or something like it, knocked a tree onto the house I was renting when I first moved to the wild north country all those years ago.