Hope everyone is ok

[Norm Peterson]

Hope no one lost anything important and that whatever was damaged is insured and can be repaired. Kind of a wild evening. Was not expecting tornado sirens on my way into Costco. The way the wind was whipping, there must have been a funnel nearby.

[Bugeaters1]

My sister inlaw lives south of Old Cheney off of 14th. she has reported in to us all is well. They drove in from Iowa City, said they made it home before the stoms hit Lincoln. 

[colhusker]

Only damage I've heard about was near Pioneers Park.

[Huskerpapa]

All is well with my family.  But our favorite little ice cream shop was destroyed and Lee's appeared to have been damaged. 

[colhusker]

8 minutes ago, Huskerpapa said:

All is well with my family.  But our favorite little ice cream shop was destroyed and Lee's appeared to have been damaged. 

Yeah C and L was leveled.  PapaCH and MommaCH are fine in east Lincoln

 

[Handy Johnson]

LOTS of damage around Indian Village... rain picking up again.

[thrasher31]

I live over by the Hy-Vee by 40th/old Cheney (apparently where the storm started) and our stuff seems fine. Luckily. I heard the Long John silvers on hwy 2 lost its roof. 

 

 

Edited May 6, 2019 by thrasher31

[Ashfan]

I knew that I had truly returned to Nebraska when I heard the sirens go off. Unfortunately, because of knee surgery I couldn't go out chasing but still managed to see some cool clouds from my deck. That is, until the straight line winds started whipping the trees around and I decided to join my dogs in the basement.

[jimmykc]

East Lincoln seemed to luck out this time although we got a heaping pile of pea-sized hail on the front lawn. Thankfully I won't have to put another new roof on the home like the last time which was almost exactly three years ago. The wind did blow down the wren house I put up yesterday morning (disclaimer: No wrens were harmed by this post).

[uneblinstu]

We lost power for about 8 hours. But otherwise were fine. Might have lost some meat in the fridge. Ice cream survived in the freezer, though, so crisis averted!

[tcp]

siren went off, i blacked out, and I woke up in this place called Oz. Funny roads they got here. 

[AuroranHusker]

My hometown Aurora had so much hail yesterday that it looked like the aftermath of a huge snow storm, and it was 80 earlier that same afternoon. Weird & wild stuff.

 

[colhusker]

3 hours ago, AuroranHusker said:

My hometown Aurora had so much hail yesterday that it looked like the aftermath of a huge snow storm, and it was 80 earlier that same afternoon. Weird & wild stuff.

 

 

[AuroranHusker]

9 minutes ago, colhusker said:

 

 

Yeah, that's Dana Carvey's version of Nebraska native Johnny Carson doing "weird & wild stuff"   

[colhusker]

40 minutes ago, AuroranHusker said:

 

Yeah, that's Dana Carvey's version of Nebraska native Johnny Carson doing "weird & wild stuff"   

First version I could find in a quick check.

[AuroranHusker]

46 minutes ago, colhusker said:

First version I could find in a quick check.

 

Yeah, just messin' -- hard to believe it's almost been 27 years since Carson hosted The Tonight Show.

 

 

 

[PimpMario]

22 hours ago, Norm Peterson said:

Hope no one lost anything important and that whatever was damaged is insured and can be repaired. Kind of a wild evening. Was not expecting tornado sirens on my way into Costco. The way the wind was whipping, there must have been a funnel nearby.

Imagining you going to Costco is strange.

[Norm Peterson]

15 hours ago, PimpMario said:

Imagining you going to Costco is strange.

 

Just look for the guy with a shopping cart full of big cuts of meat.

[Norm Peterson]

NWS says it was an EF-2 tornado that touched down in west Lincoln on Sunday afternoon/evening.

 

It demolished the ice cream store but took one look at Lee's Chicken across the street and thought, damn, that's a heart-attack waiting to happen, and took a sharp turn south.

[colhusker]

13 minutes ago, Norm Peterson said:

NWS says it was an EF-2 tornado that touched down in west Lincoln on Sunday afternoon/evening.

 

It demolished the ice cream store but took one look at Lee's Chicken across the street and thought, damn, that's a heart-attack waiting to happen, and took a sharp turn south.

The chicken kicked its ass.

[HolyBobpilgrimage]

Can't complain... my apartment and life are intact. 

 

But that was damn scary. Scariest moment in my life. I work nights so I woke up at 5:45, 5 minutes before it hit north lincoln. Had to throw clothes on and try to hide on the first floor. Seems like these nados always miss the main metro area growing up here... tornadoes are part of life here and you get used to them. But the last 2 years they've not given a shit and headed straight for town. 

 

Love everyone here and also hope everyone made it out alright. I'm happy myself to escape with my life. 

[HolyBobpilgrimage]

On 5/5/2019 at 8:26 PM, colhusker said:

Only damage I've heard about was near Pioneers Park.

Glad I moved, I used to live out on west A. Horrible commute and circumstances made me look for the alternative. Glad now that I made the move

[tcp]

I still have pretty high standards for tornado terror. Old enough to remember the 1980 tornado outbreak in GI my last year in high school. that was insane. Not two month later, one would go right over my house in Bellevue, NE. Nutty tornado season that year.

 

 

[Norm Peterson]

8 minutes ago, tcp said:

I still have pretty high standards for tornado terror. Old enough to remember the 1980 tornado outbreak in GI my last year in high school. that was insane. Not two month later, one would go right over my house in Bellevue, NE. Nutty tornado season that year.

 

Shaping up to maybe be one of those years.

[Nighthawk]

I was in Beatrice at speed skating practice while the sirens were going off in Lincoln.   A friend of mine was texting me and face timing me while stuff was going on in Lincoln and telling us all to stay put.  We did until about 6:30-6:40 ish and then we all drove home.  I drove through a downpour where I couldn't see much past the end of my car.  Made it home and found no damage...in fact my furniture on my balcony was still where it was when i went to practice.  I live off 27th and Hwy 2...so I was somewhat close to that Long John Silver's that is down the street from  KLKN that had their roof torn off.  

Edited May 10, 2019 by Nighthawk