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LYH shattered a 120 year old record low-- at 52 last night. 

1964 for some reason we were the warm spot. -- every other location had a record from that night. 

The mixing during the night hurt totals, but they didn't hurt near as much as watching the deform band form 40 miles north of us the next day. If we hadn't gotten CRUSHED in the early few hours of that storm it would have been a real bust around here. Most of the snow was supposed to come Saturday and we got almost nothing.

Yeah, I'm not as fond of this storm- ROA had 18, Amherst had 18. I had 14.5 if you do 6 hours but had 12 on the ground. Bands were JUST to my north 15 miles-- closer to route 60 than 460 near LYH. 14.5 wasn't bad, but even as the storm unfolded, the models had me getting 20-24 inches. I was hoping for 18.

FINALLY! This was the video I had been looking for since I saw it last year. It does have cussing, primarily because it's pretty much raw emotion to what they are seeing. When I first saw it all, I pretty much felt the exact same way minus the freaking out. They turn left from Maiden Lane on to 26th street. At around 42 seconds or so they make it over a small hill on 26th, after that, they can see nothing but destruction on both sides of the street for as far as the eye can see.

Horrific. I recall something from Andrew that was on that par--

Crystal Whitely? Yeah she had the thousand-yard stare going on. You see that in a lot of people when they tell their stories, almost like they are reliving it at that very moment. The show was recorded in October so it had only been 5 months since she had lost 2 of her 3 kids.

Yes, and that's backed by science. When the VA started running group therapy for PTSD clients, more often then not, the larger chunk of the group came out worse after sitting through groups where they talked about the specific combat events. It's been years since I read the reports, but my father was in involved in the study. There is a phase of atrophy where the focus needs to be on meditation (or something spiritual by choice) exercise and rebuilding. At some point, it may come up more often in conversation but never the grotesque harsh details.

Yeah, EMHE had to cram a lot into 2 hours.

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yes they did-- and while I think Ty is a good gu and like helping people, if he said 7 houses in 7 days one more itme I was going turn that thing off.

I hope the one mom who lost two kids is in therapy-- she was very glossed over, more often than not- like disassoicated . I can't imagine having my kids swept out of my arms so it makes sense, but as a former mental health professional I'm concerned for her long term.

They seemed to have close to the same model storm shelter you had added to your home as well. Very cool-- and I hope most tornado prone areas start to ad those. I'd like to see some push to make them more accessible via price/insurance/tax breaks. I'd pay an extra 100 bucks a year in taxes to help most homes get those in the next 2-3 years and prevent hearing of 170 lost lives.

As always, appreicate how candid you were during all this.

Just finished those episodes-- well done. That show often makes me tear up when there is loss of a child or something like that, the 2 moms who lost children was just horrible.

yeah, it was a sad episode in some ways but happy in others. They had to rush everything in order to fit it into 2 hours. The Howard family (firefighter) didn't want to be on the show and said no thanks several times because they thought it should go to someone that needed it more. Eventually ABC convinced them though.

It's available online if you missed it but want to see it.:

http://abc.go.com/wa...n-family-part-1

http://abc.go.com/wa...n-family-part-2

Thanks for these links-- I'll check them out later. Was playing with the kids last night with the TV off and totally forgot about it until 10:15

Great thread to read just before thanksgiving.. Much appreciation, JOMO

Great storm-- always a little bittersweet to me--

700 MB low was more north then progged.. After being modeled at 24 inches for 3 days, that last nudge just cut our qpf down to where Danville/Martinsvilee had less then an inch and we had about 1.2 inches (I measured 14.5 using every 6 hours, but max depth was 12.5 inches) Had about 15 minutes of sleet mixed too-- was funny cause it showed it perfectly on TWC radar.

12.5 inches is a great storm, but not the epic stuff you all had.

The 18 inch line was literally 20 miles NW of my house.