So I just heard a lady outside my office window say to some of my co-workers, “There’s supposed to be a severe thunderstorm heading this way, so be careful!” My co-workers replied, “Yeah… whatever… I’ll get an umbrella or something whatever smoke some pot.”
Anyway, I’ve come to trust random voices I hear outside my window, so I took a quick peek at the National Weather Service site, and LO AND BEHOLD! The disembodied voice was right!
* AT 225 PM PDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL…AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WEST LINN…OR NEAR OREGON CITY…AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR INCLUDE…
GRESHAM AND BORING…
TROUTDALE…
HAPPY VALLEY…
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY…A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED…ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE…SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
Notice that the National Weather Service’s usage of all caps can only mean one thing:
UPDATE 3:35! Crisis avoided… at least for us! Sucks to be YOU, Hillsboro and Oregon City. Find out why after the jump.
UPDATE 4:55! PANIC AGAIN!!! Find out why after the jump.
UPDATE 5:58! Okay, relax again. Sheesh!
4:55 UPDATE!
Man, you truly are the Mercury’s Queen of Panic.
At any rate: I’m scared!
Tornado will only hit West Linn. Caused by an evil mad scientist in East Linn.
I genuinely LOL’d at that. East Linn! Ha!