... and then another...
... and another...
Here's a news report about the storm: "Roofs ripped off buildings, trees topple onto homes as severe storms move through Dane County" (Channel 3000).
June 14, 2022
What a violent storm we had yesterday!
This morning at sunrise, I was out on the 0.8-mile-long stretch of lakeshore trail and I encountered 2 newly fallen trees:
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In using the term “violent” I think your ascribing an emotion to the storm.
Destructive.
We're painting our house right now. The storm was not helpful.
We were w/o power for 5 hrs; thankfully not long enough to ruin the frig food.. We have an acquaintance whose's still w/o power.
@Levi Starks
One definition of "violent" at the OED, is "Of a natural force: operating with great strength; extremely powerful and (now esp.) destructive." You see this meaning going back 600 years:
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 4088 Þer is no storme þat may lasten euere..; Þing violent may nat be eterne.
c1480 (▸a1400) St. Adrian 509 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 286 Of þe hewine a rayne gert fal, sa wyolent & fellonny, þat þe fyr slokit wes in hy.
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 191 Thai fyrit gunnis wyth powder violent.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 680 It carrieth so violent a streame that presently it is able to driue a mill.
1658 T. Willsford Natures Secrets 107 Venus and ☽,..increases the flowing of the Seas, causing violent Tides.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 382 The South and S.W. Winds, which are the violentest Winter Winds there.....
And so on!
On the LA local news in last night, they kept showing this storm as it made its way through Chicago, with the possibility of tornados hitting the city. Explaining to the viewers that "Chicago is one of the largest cities in the US." Thanks.
Nothing like the Yellowstone flooding taking out the road to the Mammoth Springs entrance.
My wife has a backcountry hike planned for Yellowstone this summer. Fortunately it does not involve the Mammoth Springs entrance or area.
"On the LA local news in last night, they kept showing this storm as it made its way through Chicago, with the possibility of tornados hitting the city. Explaining to the viewers that "Chicago is one of the largest cities in the US." Thanks."
Just journalists showing off their superior education.
James Fenimore Cooper would have called that a "windrow." Not sure the meaning has survived.
Welcome to the midwest. If you live here long enough chances are good that you've lived through at least one tornado.
Ryan
It went through the northwest suburbs but we here in the Fox Valley didn't even get any rain. The heat continues unabated.
—they had managed to ascend a pile of trees, that had been uptorn by a tempest, to catch a view of the objects that surrounded them. It is still the practice of the country to call these spots wind-rows. By letting in the light of heaven upon the dark and damp recesses of the wood, they form a sort of oases in the solemn obscurity of the virgin forests of America. The particular wind-row of which we are writing lay on the brow of a gentle acclivity; and, though small, it had opened the way for an extensive view to those who might occupy its upper margin, a rare occurrence to the traveller in the woods. Philosophy has not yet determined the nature of the power that so often lays desolate spots of this description; some ascribing it to the whirlwinds which produce waterspouts on the ocean, while others again impute it to sudden and violent passages of streams of the electric fluid; but the effects in the woods are familiar to all. - Pathfinder
Wow he likes to ramble on.
When Althouse uses "violent" to describe a storm, it triggers Global Warming denial reflux.
This storm passed just to the north of us. A half hour before sunset it was as dark as night. Then it lightened up, but with a bright yellow light. Not just in the sky. The air was yellow right down to the ground. It was like daylight on some other planet.
"Ryan said...
On the LA local news in last night, they kept showing this storm as it made its way through Chicago, with the possibility of tornados hitting the city. Explaining to the viewers that "Chicago is one of the largest cities in the US." Thanks."
The Cubs game was delayed and while they were killing time you could hear the tornado sirens going off...weird.
My mother slept through an F1 tornado as it went over the back yard uprooting even the biggest trees. She didn't notice anything wrong until she saw a local newscaster wandering around the yard.
Elephants need rights. Just like fetuses.
Haying today. Similar to our windrows?
The one time in Wisconsin, our flight was canceled out of Lacrosse b/c of tornadoes. We rented a car w/another local VT couple, traveling to Chicago and got a(n) hotel for a next day flight. We got there at midnight from Lacrosse and ate in a casino. Very weird experience! A dark, rainy, windy night.
Poor trees. The gross inequity. Her Choice.
Global cooling strikes.
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