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 Zephyr and Master's 2000 Chase Log   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Well, today was my first of many storm chases to come, And I can honestly say that is was a very exciting.
The warning was over but we continued to pursue the storm because the storm was still there, it just wasn't as severe, we decided at Weldona that the storm had broken up dramatically and started to head back home.
Along with this storm, hail, heavy rain, large amounts of lightning and strong winds were reported.
www.stormpages.com /alarry8/zephyr_master_chase00.html   (970 words)

  
 Texas State Historical Association - My Texas - Granny and the Storm Cellar
The storm cellar had a floor, four walls, and a flat top built of planks, much like a room in a house.
As the storm cellar was basically a hole in the ground, water that ran into it stayed there until it finally evaporated.
Grandpa had been reared in an area where he had never seen the effects of a tornado and felt that a storm cellar was a foolish and unnecessary expense.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /mytexas/stories/GG/349.html   (937 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / German Police Storm Cellar to Free Child Hostages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
German police stormed a cellar where an Iranian man was holding four schoolgirls at knifepoint on Tuesday, ending a five-hour siege in a western German town.
ENNEPETAL, Germany (Reuters) - German police stormed a cellar where an Iranian man was holding four schoolgirls at knifepoint on Tuesday, ending a five-hour siege in a western German town.
The man then barricaded himself and his four hostages, aged 12 to 16, in the cellar of a nearby house.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/12/german_police_storm_cellar_free_child_hostages_1113324136   (238 words)

  
 Riding out the storm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pickett is one of a number of local citizens who donate their time as storm spotters for the area.
Instead of ducking underground to a protective shelter, storm spotters head straight to the heart of giant weather systems, facing hail, high winds and a slurry of rain.
My initiation into storm spotting has ended, and we are entering the south edge of Winfield on U.S. Looking at the roadside homes, dozens of trees are stripped of their limbs, the bare reminders of January's ice storm.
www.winfieldcourier.com /w020511/Fri1.html   (1843 words)

  
 North Platte Telegraph - News - 06/22/2004 - Storm cellar becomes artist's canvas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Evelyn Wanbolt, who lives at Camp Maranatha near Maxwell, painted a mural onto a concrete storm cellar belonging to her friend, Donna Gurciullo of Maxwell, last month.
MAXWELL -When Donna Gurciullo of Maxwell commissioned a friend to paint her outdoor storm cellar last month, she was not prepared for a masterpiece.
In the next two days, the cellar's west side was transformed into a colorful tapestry showing a wide lake bordered by grass, flowers and trees, with waterfalls, mountains and a clear, blue sky behind.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=12057844&BRD=377&PAG=461&dept_id=531813&rfi=6   (518 words)

  
 DesMoinesRegister.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Studying in the Cellar: Abby Janssen, a student at Simpson College, studies during a slow part of her shift at the Storm Cellar on Thursday.
The Storm Cellar, open for nearly a year now, fills a niche in their sleepy college town, the students said.
The Storm Cellar - named for Simpson's athletic teams and because the business resembled a basement when the students first took control last year - has become a labor of love.
desmoinesregister.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050418/NEWS02/504180344/1004   (622 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Dictionary - storm
Search for "storm" in all of MSN Encarta
Same as storm window (often used in the plural)
stormed out of the room in a huff
encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861715350   (315 words)

  
 Tornado, Betsy Byars - HarperChildrens
Pete opened the doors to the storm cellar and beckoned with his straw hat.
She ducked into the cellar, and Pete pulled the doors shut behind her.
We listened to the storm and worried about my father in the cornfield.
www.harperchildrens.com /teacher/catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0064420639   (748 words)

  
 stormcellar.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If you have any pictures of bands or your friends at the Storm Cellar, send them to booking@stormcellar.org -- gracias.
And spinning tires in the parking lot of the racetrack at the fairgrounds is better than at the storm cellar, so if you feel the urge just drive down there first -- it's only a half mile down the road.
If you are interested in joining the Storm Cellar team, please let us know.
www.stormcellar.org   (303 words)

  
 Quick Response Report # 163 - Surviving the Storm: Sheltering in the May 2003 Tornadoes in Moore, Oklahoma
They have a storm cellar across the street, but they have got too much family, their whole family comes, and we don't interfere with that.
In '98, Sonny Holt was in his storm cellar, and he had to go to the bathroom and then coming back he opened his back den door, there goes his patio and the whole back end of his house.
My youngest granddaughters started in the cellar also, and him and his wife and the other neighbor's wife was down there with their two grandkids, and then there was a man and woman and little kid lived right there and others that was visiting, and they all went down there, too.
www.colorado.edu /hazards/qr/qr163/qr163.html   (10804 words)

  
 Exquisite Corpse - A Journal of Letters and Life
After that everybody got busy digging storm cellars to hide in when the next twister came along, but the last one had been ten years before we got there.
Most interesting to a kid were the two Magnolia trees, and the storm cellar in the backyard.
Lady started scratching at the storm cellar door, until somebody found the key, and when Amarillo's daddy carried her out, I thought she was dead.
www.corpse.org /issue_12/pets_beasts/grue.html   (4313 words)

  
 Missionaries found danger in Oklahoma furlough
Monday afternoon, May 3, they were watching their young daughters play in the backyard when a neighbor commented on the storm clouds gathering off to the southwest.
She told Ellis that if the weather became threatening, his family was welcome to come next door to join her in the storm cellar her late husband had built 30 years ago.
Those inside the storm cellar waited a few more minutes until they were sure the storm had passed, then they tried to open the door.
www.baptiststandard.com /1999/5_12/pages/furlough.html   (992 words)

  
 Storm Shelters
Clearly, one of the factors that must be considered is the level of safety that is necessary for peace of mind.
If you decide that you want to invest in a storm shelter, you will need to decide whether you want to install a pre-manufactured shelter, or have a shelter built from plans like those in the excellent guidebook by FEMA and the Wind Engineering Research Center.
There are storm shelters that are meant to be built into a new home, there are storm shelters that are meant to be installed in an existing home, there are storm shelters that are meant to be installed in the ground adjacent to a home.
www.tornadoproject.com /safety/shelters.htm   (1715 words)

  
 NWS Birmingham AL - 1974 Tornado Super Outbreak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We all went inside the storm cellar before the tornado hit our place.
After the storm, we had no shelter except for the little place in the storm cellar about 6 x 8 feet.
Before it hit our house, the pressure had built up so much in our house because we had storm windows on all of our doors and all of our doors were shut.
www.srh.noaa.gov /bmx/april1974/april1974InterestingQuotes.html   (545 words)

  
 Lynette's Link
This is the time of year in Oklahoma many refer to as “storm season.” We often hear the local warning siren, alerting us to impending storms in the area.
Even if the storm struck in the middle of the night, my mom would wake me up and take me — sometimes in heavy rain — to find shelter in the cellar built for that very purpose.
A storm indeed arose and the captain and crew began to throw everything overboard in an effort to save the ship.
www.rhema.org /lynetteslink/seedthoughts.cfm?ID=404   (801 words)

  
 Oklahoma Tornado
After a mad dash across town to the storm cellar we huddled inside with about 10 other people, 4 dogs and a cat.
Almost two weeks after the storm life for most Moore citizens, those whose property was not directly damaged, has returned somewhat to normal.
The storm cut a swathe almost a quarter of a mile wide from Penn and 134th St. to 27th and Eastern in Moore, about three and a half miles long before hitting some large open fields as it headed on northeast toward Del City.
www.rocketjam.com /archive/tornado.html   (852 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions About Tornadoes and Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Even more questions are in our Storm Cellar's Study.
Storm chasers have educated themselves thoroughly about where the safe places are and aren't in relation to the movement of the storm.
Storm chasing can be dangerous, and it is foolish to put your safety in jeopardy by going on a tour with a leader who feels he/she has to deliver a tornado or die trying.
www.bonus.com /contour/tornadoonline/http@@/www.tornadoproject.com/faq/faq.htm   (1143 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Grandma's Storm Cellar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
They took the cookies to the storm cellar.
When they got in the storm cellar they ate the cookies until they were gone.
The when the storm was over they stayed in and looked.
www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=350914   (183 words)

  
 Herbie Hydrant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If at home: Go at once to a storm cellar or a windowless, interior room; basement; or lowest level of the building.
If at work or school: Go at once to a designated storm cellar or a windowless, inside hallway at the lowest level of the building.
If there is not time to get indoors, get out of the car and lie in a ditch or low-lying area away from the vehicle.
www.herbiehydrant.com /disaster.php   (1213 words)

  
 The Reassuring Safety of Plastic Lego Houses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I was able to get to the storm cellar just before the storm veered off in a path perpendicular to the farmhouse.
Though the storm was a half-mile or so back, I noticed its beak was curved in our general direction, sniffing out something else to gobble on.
I cradled her in my arms, and then ran for the storm cellar in the slippery mud while juggling her weight.
www.frictionmagazine.com /imprint/fiction/lego.asp   (2645 words)

  
 Irish Examiner > Breaking News > Police storm cellar to free hostage schoolchildren
Four German children were freed unharmed tonight after police stormed a house cellar where they had been held for more than five hours by a man wielding two knives.
Police commandos overpowered their Iranian captor and the four girls, the oldest of whom is 16, were led to safety.
Earlier the man had forced them off a bus he had commandeered and forced them into the cellar of a nearby house before noon.
www.irishexaminer.com /breaking/story.asp?j=139639034&p=y3963974x&n=139639794   (412 words)

  
 Strat's Place - Wine Cellar Picture Album
These cellars range from the very fancy to ones that are extremely simple.
Colin C. of Colorado completes a cellar that shows what can be done with no contruction experience at all.
Don Demuth of Phila., PA did a great job on his new cellar and we thank him for the great description of how he built it.
www.stratsplace.com /cellaralbum.html   (1169 words)

  
 Beware of Spiders and Snakes Lurking in Your Storm Cellar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The center recently received a report of a child who had been bitten by a brown recluse spider while seeking shelter during a tornado warning.
A damp dark storm cellar makes a nice home for spiders as well as snakes.
Snakes also may be found in your storm shelter.
www.oklahomapoison.org /news/index.asp?InterestID=1209   (684 words)

  
 Storms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Now when the Kiowa people see that a storm may be heading their way they don’t get scared because they know that Man-ka-ih speaks their language.
There were many treacherous storms so to protect yourself you needed a storm cellar.
I compare the storms of the horse the Kiowa people made to the storms today.
fayette.k12.in.us /~cbeard/momaday/p7-03/nichols.html   (439 words)

  
 Improvising Fallout Protection for Your Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Shelters can also be improvised in the crawl space under your house, or on the ground floor if there is no basement or crawl space.
A below-ground storm cellar can be used as an improvised fallout shelter, but additional shielding material may be needed to provide adequate protection from fallout radiation.
If the existing storm cellar roof is made of light material such as wood, cover it with a foot of earth or with the equivalent thickness of other shielding material.
interests.caes.uga.edu /disaster/nuclear/articles/nuclear06.htm   (485 words)

  
 FictionPress.Com Story : Where She Belonged   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Darcia knew that most storms that came from over the dwarf mountains were bad.
The storm cellar was a large room carved into the side of the plateau.
When a storm came, the villagers all piled into it with a few other belongings.
www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=57306   (1796 words)

  
 TWISTER (An Illusion review by Joan Ellis.)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In a rousing opener, a Midwestern farm family and their Totoesque dog try to ride out a monster tornado in their storm cellar.
Just as storm number one bears down, Jo's almost ex-husband Bill drops by to pick up the divorce papers he needs in order to marry Melissa (Jamie Gertz), a reproductive therapist who advises clients about their sperm counts by cell phone while careening toward the "battle zone" in a convoy of 4x4s.
Since we know instantly that Jo and Bill will reunite, we can relax and enjoy the sight of pale, urban Melissa self-destructing in front of the tornado cowboys and the gritty, intelligent Jo, who looks great in her white tank top as she readies her instrument pack for the "suck zone" of an approaching funnel.
www.joanellis.com /reviews/TWISTER.htm   (491 words)

  
 Strat's Place - Lyle Kee's Cellar Pictures
I began the wine cellar with a prefabricated storm shelter that is manufactured by a local mortuary vault company.
I built the retaining wall around three sides of the cellar, approximately three feet out from the cellar walls.
I placed four inches of polystyrene insulation around the three sides and the top of the cellar, then I added dirt to cover the insulation.
www.stratsplace.com /how_cellkee.html   (327 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / German Police Storm Cellar, Free Child Hostages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
German police overpowered an Iranian man who was holding four schoolgirls at knifepoint in a cellar on Tuesday, ending a siege in a western German town.
ENNEPETAL, Germany (Reuters) - German police overpowered an Iranian man who was holding four schoolgirls at knifepoint in a cellar on Tuesday, ending a siege in a western German town.
At 6:12, police went in and the overwhelmed the man. I cannot comment at the moment on the state of the hostages," a police spokesman in the western German town of Ennepetal said, adding the man was alive.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2005/04/12/german_police_storm_cellar_free_child_hostages?mode=PF   (125 words)

  
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