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  1. 8 hours ago, coolio said:

    My observations: It just looked like it was one rickety bridge. Went down easy.

    Can't believe they got it on video.

    I think I read that the captain of the boat knew that is was out of power and hard to control with plenty of minutes before impact. Why not drop the anchor?

     

    From people more knowledgeable than myself - I've heard that it's not as simple as "drop the anchor = stop the boat" - and as a prior poster said - it seems they DID attempt to drop it anyway. 

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  2. The optimist in me would hope that even the most adamant of environmental advocates would see the economic impact of this bridge being out of commission for a long duration. Additionally, perhaps they'd see the added fossil fuel burning from trucks having to find longer alternate routes to get to/from the same spots. But optimism only gets you so far these days lol

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  3. 1 hour ago, Interstate said:

    Watching the video was insane... could you imagine being one of the last cars to make it over the bridge.  It looks like mostly construction vehicles on the bridge as it falls in the river.

    I wonder if they will build another bridge or make it a tunnel.

    I would think they will rebuild a bridge. Right now - that's a major way people go if they can't tolerate the tunnel (other interstate option would be all the way around the western side of 695. Obviously the decision probably won't factor in people's tunnel phobias...but I imagine due to the logistics of tunneling, they will keep it as a bridge when rebuilt. 

  4. 24 minutes ago, Maestrobjwa said:

    This is the part of this new...whatever it is I don't get: Why is it that these late freezes have become more prevalent while the winters have been warmer? Although I think @psuhoffman said the Springs aren't getting cooler by the numbers...but why then are we seeing this more? Like...shouldn't a warmer background mean this doesn't happen as much? Make it make sense, lol

    Well one thing is you can have a hard freeze or two and then have 20 degree plus departures and the averages will look like the freezes never happened. 

  5. We usually flag April as "it's still too early" - but it does come with the benefit of having some really potent systems sometimes before we head into the more summery "doldrum" patterns. It seems we always have a bit of a "butter zone" in spring and fall when CAPE is healthy enough for more than just pencil thin lines of gusty showers - but with higher shear than you'd see in July. 

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  6. 21 minutes ago, RodneyS said:

    Nice shot - especially in foreseeing the large gap between RIC and the other three airports.  

    Day-by-day, the clock is ticking in your favor. 

    I'm torn on whether to root for a last minute freak snowstorm that makes me lose....or if I should just hope for the win at this point. 

  7. Tracking *something* (even a pencil thin squall) would be fun and a welcome break from the winter crap-tracking. Obviously it's early for anything super beefy - but stranger things have happened. I personally think one reason severe tracking is a bit more "civil" and "tame" than the winter stuff is other than my stupid CIPS posting, we really don't look much beyond 8 days (from the D4-8 outlook) for severe. Save for a major signal, like 95% of our severe threat windows pop up within 7 days - and often more like inside 5 days. 

    We aren't pattern hunting for weeks looking for a hint of severe. Add in that you can get a rogue pulse storm that wipes out 1000 trees and sneaky stuff is all around. 

    Not looking forward to bugs and heat...but I sure as heck am ready to end the boredom of tracking nothing. 

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  8. 42 minutes ago, WxWatcher007 said:

    It has a really good objective track record. Even without Ellinwood or Ian posting much of something legit is on the way the usually come back to post. 

    Not to mention their ideas can generally be found elsewhere on the interwebs as well! I just hope we don't drop into a months long doldrum of boring weather. I can deal with little stretches of beautiful weather...but prolonged stretches get BORING. 

    Hopefully we get some nasty freezes late season to cut down on the mosquito populations 

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  9. 10 minutes ago, George BM said:

    Unsolicited local severe outbreak rankings IMO since 2000:

    MCSs:

    1. June 29, 2012

    2. June 4, 2008

    3. August 26, 2003

    Tornadoes:

    1. September 17, 2004

    2. September 24, 2001

    3. April 28, 2002

    Ultimately it's going to be very specific if we are talking about personalized backyard results. But area wide it doesn't get much more intense than June 29, 2012 

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  10. It's early, but might as well do the annual severe thread (people were talking about it in the long range thread!). 

    I don't have the @WxWatcher007 scale handy on this computer - but I usually post it for posterity for the upcoming severe season. Anything from discussing past events to potential upcoming patterns/analogs, and discussion about more specific upcoming threats can be posted in here. A while ago we stopped doing event-specific severe threads for most things. Whether we do that or not - this is the general thread. 

    Have at it! 

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