Just talked to Derek. He is delivering mail today and he said that Rochelle's grandparents ( Amy and Roger Rankin) from Longton, had a tornado hit their house last night and started a fire in one of the rooms. They are staying at the Silver Bell temporarily. It also took Joe and Mary Loves garage and he said something about someones trampoline being wrapped around a tree or something.
I didn't know we had tornadoes. I knew that my deck was literally covered with hail and the wind and thunder and lightening was weird ( in January), but I went to bed at 2:00 and it was only raining then.
Does anyone have any more information on this?
From what people said at the cafe today.....there was one (or at least tornado type winds)
I did hear the wind come in and it did wake me up....but here at housing we only have tree
limbs down....rain and hail was reported don't know how much.
But, power was out during the night, mine is back on as you can see......but, there are still people around here
that didn't have it as of 1:30......the Silver Bell Motel is without and the Mini-Mart on highway.
Plus others.
I guess we ducked that bullet........Thank God.
the city is operating as usual.
Guess it was wide spread......Jontra's from Busby and Hadlocks from south of town all had
some wind damage and power outage.
I must say I really enjoyed the warmer weather yesterday......but, if it is going to spawn us a storm like
that I will wave the white flag............and take winter as it comes.
Maybe someone else can fill us in more.
Siren's did NOT blow.
AOYP
Joe Love said at lunch today that it only took out part of a tree and it hit their shed. The shed didn't seem to get much damage, but the tree has to go.
Well, for crying out loud! Longton isn't supposed to have tornadoes! It sounds like it was pretty "wide spread!" I hope the electricity is back on, for the Motel and the Mini Mart. I did read in the paper about the tornado that was in the Springfield, MO area. Roma Jean, were you "O.K." through it all?
Everyone here just feels it was such a strange storm. I almost wonder if someone was experimenting with the weather, there have been rumors about that. If you just sat here and watched it on the radar , it was just weird. The sky was weird, I don't know how else to describe it. We are all used to tornado weather, but it just seemed that something about this was different. The lightening was so striking. Like being in a Tesla light show. Anyway so much for my paranoia.
I was fine, one limb down across my street, probably a weak one from last years ice storm and a lot of standing water in yards. I fell asleep on the couch around 1:30 and woke up at 8:30, so I totally missed the sirens that went on in the night. But judging from what people were saying in the office today, a lot of people were really scared by it. The temperature is really dropping, so hopefully it will be a quieter night tonight. We are coming up on the year anniversary of the big ice storm.
We had a number of just fast dropping tornados that just zeroed in on an area and were gone almost as fast. That sounds like what they had down at Longton.
It was a strange storm. I was reading before I went to sleep but the lighting kept me awake and the thunder was sounding strange. It sound like it was in a barrel before the rain and hail came down.
On that particular night, I was at work, and learned that there were tornado watches for the area. However; once I'm inside the building, I have no idea what is happening in the outside world. We left work in the rain and had lightening all around us. When I got to Elk City, the rain had stopped and the stars were shining.
Where do you work, Janet? I thought you worked in El Dorado!
So did I, Janet............did you relocate?
AOYP
I now work at Amazon.com in shipping. The prison job sucked. I hated the employees. This job is great. I don't have to talk to anyone if I don't want to. I do my job. I go home. I get great benefits. What more could a girl want?
Sounds great! Good for you.
It is closer to home, too, isn't it?
or is the commute about the same?
It's a little further drive, but a more interesting drive because I get to drive through Elk County more. A trooper from Independence asked me if I was tired of the drive, yet, and I'm really not. Even when the highway has been snowpacked and icy, it was a pleasant drive for me.
Now Janet you be a friendly girl and talk to people. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D It sounds like a better job to me than working at the prison. I take it you work 3rd shift. Take care and I do hope you enjoy your new job.
Amazon shipping, huh?
Where's my order???? ;D
Ha Ha about your order, Waldo. Amazon has about 6 facilities in the United States. I'm sure your order is somewhere around here.
Congratulations on the new job Janet. I would think that working in the prison could get very depressing.
Exactly what are you doing at Amazon, Janet? Security? :-X :-X
I have never had a problem with Amazon shipping and I have been buying from them since the mid 90s when they came into business and sold only books.
Even the items which have free shipping and are supposed to come by "slow boat" always arrive in a decent time.
Amazon was not the original name of the company.
I cannot recall the name but it sounded a lot like cadaver and apparently was turning a few people off and away.
So it was renamed after the world's largest river flow.
The naming idea was to coincide with the fact there was a huge amount of water flowing in the river and there would be a huge amount of goods flowing from the company.
According to Wikipedia, The company began operating as an online bookstore under the name Cadabra.com (as in abracadabra), a name that Bezos quickly abandoned due to its sounding like "cadaver".
I didn't know that - I learned something today. :D
I learned something, too. I didn't know it had a different name at first. sixsdogmom, my job is in shipping. I mostly package up single item orders. We have totes that come down a conveyor belt full of product. Each piece is a single order. We scan the tote. It tells us how many items are in the tote. We then scan the item, the computer tells us what kind of package we should put it in, we package the item, we get the bar code from the printer, put it on the package and send it down another conveyor belt which sends it to the dock where it is put on a truck and taken away. I really like it because I get to handle lots of product. It's an easy job and I don't have to make decisions.
Neat! Hope that you do well! Blessings.
Hey, good luck with your new job, Janet. I know the drive must be a beast at times --- lots of deer running out in front of cars along Highway 160 between Howard and Elk City.
Our last item purchased from Amazon, came from Coffeyville via DHL.
When the package arrived at the Denver DHL center in Englewood, CO, it was delivered to the Englewood post office.
DHL has a business agreement with the post office to deliver their packages. I groaned realizing it was coming to the house by mail and would probably take another three days. However, we received the package the next day from the Centennial post office.
It arrived one day earlier than scheduled.
DHL (Dalcey, Hillblom, and Lynn) is a German post office company directly competing with FedEx and UPS.
Janet,
I did that drive for 8 months while I worked at Cessna. Some of the most beautiful scenery. The roads can be a bear in winter but you are right it is a relaxing drive. Since it was a long enough drive I used to listen to audio books. I only live 13 miles from where I work now so I don't have as much time, and of course I am really lucky if I see a deer or two. Mostly just miles of pine trees. So think of me sometime on your drive and I'll plan on ordering something from Amazon soon. Till then take care and drive safe.
Andrea
Nice to hear form you Andrea..
I assume all is well with you and yours?
Yes we are all doing well. Jenepher has moved out to the beach with her friends. Sarah and Louie are still here at home. The weather has been cold lately but it will warm up soon. I want6ed to post a picture of the kids but don't know how. Maybe you can help.
Andrea