Everything OK in Minneapolis?
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Posted on May 26, 2008 01:07 pm
Rob Stemple
The Czar of BS
Member Since: Dec 31, 2007
Just saw on the news that there was some major storms that moved throw the area.
Did all of you that live there make out OK?
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May 26, 2008 01:41 pm Oh, man, it was fugly up north from us a ways. Were were actually just a few minutes behind the storm, we were up in Anoka ordering a playhouse for our kids, we left to head home (45 minute drive or so), and 10-20 minutes later they got hammered...in Hugo they had a tornado...lots of damage.
Thanks for inquiry and concern, it's appreciated, we had pretty fair weather down here south of the Twin Cities...
May 26, 2008 02:34 pm Good to hear! The news always makes it sound worse then what it is.
May 26, 2008 03:06 pm oh, it was terrible, I do believe there were a couple deaths, it just wasn't around us.
May 26, 2008 09:37 pm has guitar jim been here this weekend? the storm moved in to cheeseland...er, I mean, Wisconsin, after they left MN, I hope jim didn't catch any problems from it.
May 26, 2008 11:04 pm Thanks, dB...no it was north of us too.
Man, it was wicked though. I was watching KARE 11 coverage of it as it happened. It's not too often that the Meteorologists are actually scared.
I feel bad for the family that lost their two year-old son up in Hugo, MN. I think I heard that they found him in the pond out behind their totally flattened house.
Tragic.
Thanks for the positive energy...
May 27, 2008 12:12 am Man that is sad to hear about the small child. My heart goes out to that family.
Glad to hear that everyone that belongs to the group is OK.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
May 27, 2008 08:04 am All present and accounter for!
This is nice. Real sorry to hear about the child. That's rough.
May 27, 2008 08:05 am Ya know what's really sad is all the gawkers coming to town, kids strapped in their seats, parents with camcorders out the window, getting in the way of the emergency people just to get a gawk at other people's misery.
WaltChief Cook and Bottle WasherMember
Since: May 10, 2002
May 27, 2008 08:33 am That is sad. I remember the day you came to help. Then I remember the days when everybody became affraid to help because of our twisted legal system. Now we have the days the jackles getting a contact high, like these events where staged for them on TV for their entertainment.
May 27, 2008 08:38 am Yeah, I remember a storm that went thru our hood when I was a kid, 100 MPH straight line winds...when it was over, moms cried, kids were amazed, and dads fired up their chainsaws and went from house to house in a big posse sawing up everybody's fallen trees and carrying boats, campers and such back onto the right people's properties...then the moms and kids came out to haul brush and wood pieces out of the dads way...no gawkers, just a community pulling together...I spent a couple days just hauling wood, but hey, school was cancelled so it was all good.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
May 27, 2008 09:25 pm Yep, my bro in law is just s tiny bit south of Hugo. I mean like 3/4 of a mile from were it got smacked. He said everyone up there was crappin tacks.
But indeed it is a sad thing for the family of the lost child and all the rest who suffered damage. There was another town that got hit even worse. Pretty much the entire town was flattened I guess. But Hugo was the center of the story. The media and all the gauckers should be smacked around some for getting in the way.
But like dB and Walt stated. I remember the days when you didn't just look you came to help and lend a hand.
