so a storm came in out of the blue and my layout got hit by hail luck-ally no damage i kept looking at the ceramic buildings saying well i know im gonna have to clean them up but nothing luck-ally also i got all trains/electrical equipment inside while it was coming in and some deco also. so only thing i had to worry about was some buildings their cars/trucks-etc and those 2 ceramic buildings.
well man that hail was the size of a marble. but then later on my husband came out and told me that downtown saint Louis got hit by a tornado. it hit Clayton and forest park.
worst part was when i lived there everyone had this attitude of “well a tornado cant hit saint Louis there’s too much pollution the carbon dioxide and the temperatures of the mississippi would disrupt any funnel cloud before it could hit the inner city”
anyhow im sorry guys i tryed to go pro today but it was low on battery and with the storm battery problems a half charged r/c797 yeah things were not allowing me to have good video
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Glad there was no damage. We had a pretty nasty derecho pass through western PA a couple weeks ago that really made a mess of everything. It took me and my family almost a week to get the power back on. The crazy thing is right before the power came back on I was firing up a generator and as soon as I got it up and running my brother comes running out to tell me the power’s back on.
St Louis got hit by a big tornado in the 1890s and again in the 1950s, so it’s happened before. The 1896 one actually wiped out part of the stonework on the Illinois side of the Eads bridge. If you look closely at it, and you can see that some of the arches at track level / below the roadway are not the same stone / color. The 1954 (unsure on year) one took out most of the extremely tall TV tower where Fox 2 news used to be. (It’s been demolished since they moved studios.) It’s happened before, and will happen again, as we are in Tornado Alley. Also, I heard from a friend who lives there that the sirens didn’t even go off in the city of STL, which makes it even worse.
EDIT: There is a wiki page on notable tornados in St. louis. There are quite a few. I was actually near Lambert Airport when that tornado happend in 2011, and again in Sunset Hills in 2013 when that one happened. Never heard the sirens in either case.
Had the same exact one! I lost power for a second southwest of Pittsburgh, but I was lucky. The NMRA jamboree was almost cancelled due to a power outage at the location
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yeah we didnt hear sirens for either one this year even here in villa ridge when that one trashed phillips 66 and all them places up there im only a subdivision or 2 away from that there gas station an no one heard sirens heck i think i was in the camper watchin a movie when it happened i know we got the hail from it and from the one here that hit saint louis.
i was in that window watching my village on my outdoor model railroad when that happened the storm crept up last second i put all my electronics away except track and high tailed it inside completely forgot i had 2 ceramic buildins out there welp luckally they werent smashed by hail.
during that storm though i was watching the hail and them buildings thinking man ima be cleaning up shattered building off my rails had no idea a tornado had just happened
well so far their saying for the tornado 4 dead 35 injured
I am grateful that you suffered no serious damage!
Concordia Lutheran Seminary had some damage but no serious losses (other than postponing commencement exercises till this evening) and no injuries, for which I am also grateful!
