Bad Weather Coming Into KC area today.

[leftyladyfrommo]

We may have really severe weather. Seems like that is happening more and more often here.

My barometer is dropping like a stone this morning.

[xmas74]

1. Have you got your tornado kit ready?

They've predicted a chance of having to take cover between 3 and 9.

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I don't even have a basement to go to.

But I do have a weather radio and I watch Katie on Channel 5.

A friend of mine always drives over to the Sears Store at Antioch Mall and parks in the underground parking lot there. Lots of people do that.

But I have animals at home and I would never leave them. So if the house gets hit I will be on my way to Kansas and probably won't see Aunti Em any more.

[MissMillie]

3. ????

Why no basements? Are you below sea level?

I guess I don't get why so many houses are built w/o a basement.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. No - just houses here with no basements.

My house is on a crawl space.

If this weather situation continues to get worse I may have to build a storm shelter in the back yard. I have the perfect yard to build one right into the lot.

[xmas74]

8. Most of the houses I've looked at to rent have no basements

around here. I don't know why since this is a tornado prone area.

Cheaper, maybe?

[xmas74]

7. If you wrere closer to me you could come here.

But I'm out in Warrensburg.

I've got the wx radio in the basement, some blankets and pillows, some bottled water, some raisins (I have a five year old so we need them) and the air mattress is already aired up and made, in case we have to take cover after her bedtime.

We have battery operated lanterns in the basement set up and I have a flashlight on the dining room table today.

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. I was just out on the weather sites

They are all over the place with this weather. NOAA doesn't sound so bad but Accuweather is pretty bad. Said the same areas hit Sunday will be hit again. But we didn't have bad weather Sunday up where I live so hopefull this stuff will go around us. We are lucky here. A lot of the time the storms go North or South and East of my house. I just sit and watch them from my backyard.

These storms lately have had a lot of electrical activity in them.

[xmas74]

9. JoCo MO will probably get it.

We usually do but Sunday passed us by.

Did you see that the one in Caruthersville was at LEAST an F3, according to the local news?

I suspect that May will be awful.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. I think Johnson Co. gets hit a lot more than we do here in the

Northland. Seems that way to me.

So does Platte City and up in Platte County.

[xmas74]

12. 50 hwy and 13 hwy seem to suck them in.

And where do the two highways intersect? Warrensburg, in the city limits.

We get a decent one every couple of years here. Holden gets them in the city every year, as does Chilhowee and Kingsville. Whiteman has them swarming around Knob Noster and the base itself all the time.

That Sunday a few weeks ago that had the nonstop touchdowns? Turns out Johnson County didn't get the heaviest rated ones but we got the majority of them.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. Maybe that is the next tornado alley

You seem to be more in their way than Wichita any more.

[xmas74]

15. We get them often.

It really kind of sucks.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. where are you located?

I am in New Hampshire, but the home base of my company is in St. Marys.

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I live in Kansas City North

St. Mary's gets hit a lot with bad storms. You seem to get the ones that cross over from Atchison and move on North.

[catmandu57]

13. We just missed them last Sunday

lucky for us, not for the people that got hit. We were expecting heavy weather, not tornados, they came out of nowhere very fast the sirens didn't go off, but where they hit was open country, so they wouldn't have heard sirens anyway.
If ever my wife hits the lottery, I'm going to hire a bobcat to cut out a piece of the hill so we can build a storm shelter.

[ncrainbowgrrl]

16. Yikes! Stay safe!!

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