The Daring Dufas wrote:

On 8/5/2012 5:11 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Jim Wilkins wrote:

"The Daring Dufas" wrote in
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We could swap them dang Yankees a few
tornadoes for a couple of blizzards. ^_^
TDD

No thanks, we have enough already:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zephyrp...7606420814448/

We were lucky, only one fatality. It ran up a lightly populated hilly
region between two suburban ones.

One came 1/4 mile from the house when I was little.


One hit my high school in the late '60s. It blew out over 1,000
panes of glass, leveled the most of the light standards on the football
field and lifted the gym roof. The two story press box lost the upper
deck, and the lower deck was badly damaged. Most of the school busses
were parked inside & under the stadium seats or the light standards
would have crushed them.

That was on a Saturday afternoon. We were in classes on Monday even
though it was cold, and there were no lights in most of the campus. It
took over three weeks to replace all of the glass, and a couple more
weeks for other repairs. They had to wait almost nine months for the
new light standards. to be built and erected. It was amazing to see
inch thick wall steel pipe bent like that.

That summer, a dry power transformer burnt in the transformer vault,
and left almost half the campus without power. Temporary lines ran from
one wing to another for lights only, but idiot teachers kept tripping
the 400A three phase 208 VAC breaker by trying to use TVs and other
items.


Like the women in an office who plug that little electric heater under
their desk into the UPS for their computer.


Or complain that the computer shuts down when they turn on a laser
printer?

The wood barracks we used in basic would blow a fuse if someone
turned on a radio, while someone else was using an electric razor.