Stormy night in Kansas.

[Gliderjohn]

Bit if a blow last night with thunderstorms. Just a few nights ago 30 semi trailers were blown over on I-70. Last night two freight trains were derailed by wind, both within a few miles of my house! Had some light tree damage and some garden damage. Also had quite a bit of small hail. The general area had a lot of tree damage and power outages.
GliderJohn

[Gliderjohn]

Forgot to add that the region also had a 4.2 quake last night too, causing some damage including a school in Burrton, KS.
GliderJohn

[Gliderjohn]

Hearing now concerning the fright trains that 140 cars are off track. This is on a BNSF main line.
GldierJohn

[Guzzistajohn]

Forgot to add that the region also had a 4.2 quake last night too, causing some damage including a school in Burrton, KS.
GliderJohn

Saw that, Newton made the national news!

[yogidozer]

Pretty heavy, yet short duration thunder/rain here in northeast. Nowhere near as bad as you had.
Hope no one was hurt in your storm. Seen thunder this year like never before.

[oldbike54]

 OH MY !

 Dusty

[fotoguzzi]

We got 3" of rain overnight and that's becoming normal now.. we've had a couple 2-2.5" drenches recently.

[Gliderjohn]

A couple of pictures of getting blown over cars upright. Big mess!






GliderJohn

[yogidozer]

Tell me John. In your experience gave storms gotten worse through the years?
Seems so in the northeast, summers especially

[Gliderjohn]

In my area in recent years we have had way less tornados then in the past. General severity of thunderstorms seems about the same. Just depends if you are in or out of the paths at the wrong time.
What does seem more extreme is the duration and depth of droughts and then equally extreme wet periods. Still get about the same average annual precipitation but just more erratically it seems.
GliderJohn

[ohiorider]

Be safe!  Takes a lot of wind to blow boxcars off a railroad track.

Bob

[Aaron D.]

Northeast storms seem about the same to me-but the media coverage has gone crazy.

[yogidozer]

Northeast storms seem about the same to me-but the media coverage has gone crazy.

I live in the northeast. Last few years we've been getting storms they call macrobursts.
Losing power due to trees knocking down record number of telephone poles, 750, (just in 3 towns) for over a week at a time.
I live on a lake, state forest across from me. Little over 1/4 mile across. One side, total destruction.
Trees falling into houses, roads blocked for over a week, the other side of the lake, nothing happened.
Next storm, just the reverse.
Yeah, must be the media, or the Russians?