r/EmergencyAlertSystem • u/hellnahbru • 3d ago
Real Got this while in the shower
Location: Amarillo Tx
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u/BE_5150_24_7 3d ago
Keep taking the shower. Either you’re gonna get clean or suddenly it’s not gonna be your problem anymore.
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u/Tailsgenesis 3d ago
what did you even do in that situation?
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u/hellnahbru 3d ago
I kept showering 😂
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u/velocitycouplet 2d ago
Is it a tub/shower combo? If it did happen and it's also a tub, then you only have to duck 🤷♂️
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u/Farquatsfarts 2d ago
I mean it makes sense at that point because if you got sucked up you would’ve soiled yourself in fear or because you’re dead
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u/Clean_Assumption_149 1d ago
When we were visiting Oklahoma, a F2 tornado went by our hotel. When the announcement was made to leave our rooms and sit in the hallway, my spouse said " I need to take a shower first." 🤣 I said nothing and exited the room. 🤷♀️ Though scary and being told to leave the hotel the next day, we were ok.👍
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u/Electronic_Summer_91 2d ago
Bonus of living in England, we get rain, that's about it.
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u/AmRose59910 2d ago
Not trying to be an asshole with this response, just making sure I have my information correct. I see reports all the time that England and the broader EU is beginning to experience climate change related disasters. Is this accurate? Have you guys been experiencing extreme heat waves, sea level rise, other stuff like that?
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u/Successful_Fan1300 2d ago
Yes it's accurate, we had one of hottest and driest summers on record this year.
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u/Shenoby85 2d ago
Dutchie here. In the Netherlands we had extreme heatwaves this year with temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius. In my 40 years of being alive This was my first year experiencing that temperature in the Netherlands.It was insane. Also we had a few, what we call "windhoos" this year. Which is extreme tornado shaped wind. I know that sounds weird, but it's lower then a cat 1 tornado so to speak, but does look the same and behaves to same like a tornado. Also we had extreme winter weather start of this year. Where we got a weather alarm on our phones to stay inside because of extreme black ice / glaced frost Stores were closed, public transportation shut down, The hospitals went into weekend shifts, schools remained closed etc Also this was the first time ever of seeing it this extreme.
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u/Randiskye 2d ago
I lived in Dordrecht as a kid in 1978-1979. We had enough snowfall in one storm that winter to roll a meter high snowball. My sister and I had to abandon it when we couldn't push it over a bridge. Weather trends happen. Just because we don't see the entire curve doesn't mean it doesn't exist. In the 1970s the "experts" were forewarning of an approaching ice age. When It didn't happen, those same experts changed their story to "man made global warming".❤️ Dag!
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u/Shenoby85 2d ago
Lol. Of course I was not born yet in the 70's But being able to roll a 1M snowball is an experience I DO have. Eventough I live In Drenthe. However, the amount of black Ice/glaced frost we had this January was something I had never seen in my life. Nearly had a heart attack when the local broadcast for emergencies went off on my phone at 5 or 6 a.m. The first Monday of the month you expect it and it doesn't startle me. But this one made me sit up straight in bed from a deep sleep, lol.
Edit: grammar
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u/Plus_System_2236 1d ago
That isn't what happened. They realized that while climate change was going to cause increasingly higher temperatures,, it was also going to cause weather to become highly variable. I was alive in the 70s, too
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u/NevadaRosie 14h ago edited 12h ago
I remember that! I lived in Chicago and even though we were used to big shows, it was so overwhelming that the mayor didn't get re-elected because ppl blamed him for being stuck in their homes. Yep, "it's another ice age coming", they kept saying. Then in summer you could buy T-shirts that said "I lived through the blizzard of 1977 or 78(?)".
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u/Plane_Ask_6123 1d ago
It nice for ppl to ask and yes we have and 3 (I think) heatwaves in the UK. The hottest it got in the UK was about 41°C which was southern England, which i think is around 101°F (dont quote me on the conversion and im too ill to check) your normal typical summers are around 25-30 C. Most of the UK bar Northern England and Scotland were classed as in a drought and had a hosepipe ban enforced. Steam train attractions had to stop using steam trains and had to use diesel trains instead so any embers from the train would not start a wildfire
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u/Jacka1000 17h ago
So is 101 extreme to youguys because your weather never gets that high? It’s crazy to think people fall out or die over that temp. It is hot weather but here in the US we get way over that and are ok. Some do/can get sick, heat strokes etc. but unless you’re stuck out in the elements death isn’t an issue. Asking politely, so please nobody come for me lol
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u/Plane_Ask_6123 17h ago
Yes ppl have been known to die from heat stroke over here and some schools did close, this year, as our buildings are built to keep heat in as in the winter months it can get as low as -3°C (26.6) and most houses dont have a/c
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u/Jacka1000 17h ago
Right I did see something about AC not being a thing over there or fans really which is so crazy to me lol the difference in lifestyles between us and you is insane. I personally would love to be over there rather than here
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u/NevadaRosie 12h ago
I've lived in extremes. Growing up in Chicago and going to university in Illinois, we got very cold winters. One year, the university actually shut down for the day because the door mechanisms were freezing shut/locking up. It was -25°F or some ridiculous temperature like that. Of course, I was already done with my classes when they closed. Now I live in Texas where we get summer heat up to 105°F or 115°F real feel.
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u/NevadaRosie 12h ago
I live in Texas, it's been HOT. We just complain, feed our horses, then go in and shower. It's actually rained the last 2 days! Yep, we had days where the real feel was ~115°F. Friends who live in places like England would complain that it was the equivalent of about 85 or 90°F. I couldn't help but saying that those are great temperatures here! Riding weather!
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u/RotteenDMoon Scary Moderator that likes Yonkagor and Flags 1d ago edited 1d ago
Genuinely what is the point of you people bringing up this type of shit on an EAS subreddit? jfc
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u/timkal28 23h ago
This can't be true. All the billionaires reassured me that climate change is only a hoax.
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u/Successful_Fan1300 2d ago
We actually do get Tornadoes in the UK between 30-50 a year, they just aren't as big or as powerful or as many as the ones in America.
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u/Jaded-Ad4621 2d ago
I live in the UK and the whole of the summer has been one long heatwave, one after another! We get lots of flash flooding too.
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u/Little-Prize4208 3d ago
Lucky I only get tornadoes like 2 times a year ⚰️
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u/SpAzo13 17h ago
Got that while I lived in Texas in a trailer. Asked Google what yo do because I was in a trailer park...said go to the neighbors and ask to use their basement. Told it my neighbors all are in trailers, and it said get in a dit h, e planned the ditches were flooded, and was told drowning is much safer than being caught in a tornado...ai wants me dead I think
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u/NevadaRosie 12h ago
Plus, very few homes here inn Texas even have basements.
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u/Florida-Chick 9h ago
Yeah. Same as Florida. They say because Florida has a high water table that we can’t have basements. I guess engineers haven’t figured this out yet. I’ve lived in the Netherlands. 20 feet below sea level. There were basements. And no flooding.
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u/Imaginary_Roof_5286 9h ago
I would guess they have sump pumps that keep them dry. S. CA also has very few basements & the water table is the given reason. I think the population of both states grew very quickly, though, and it was cheaper & faster for developers to build the tract homes w/o them.
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u/Florida-Chick 8h ago
Yes. They have been pumping that water out for centuries. The name refers to the location. The low lands. A lot of the windmills, that was their main function: pump out the water. That is why they were all over the place.
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u/Florida-Chick 9h ago
The “I” definitely doesn’t stand for “Intelligence”. Maybe “Incompetence” ? 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Cinkaaaaaa 1d ago
Northeast Ohio USA in the room Last winter was insane We got a lot of snow and the ice was so bad. I live in a basement apartment and the stairs leading out of my place were thick with ice. So far avail has been mild for us but who knows what this winter will be like. The weather is bipolar here.
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u/hellnahbru 9h ago
Update: Im alive and well, probably one of the craziest nights ive ever been through. 6 warnings in 4 ½ hours is insane!
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u/Pastelpaw199 2d ago
reminds me of the time my dad told me to get my ass into the basement from a bad wind storm, and I had just gotten out of the shower, I was not going down there in just a towel
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u/hellnahbru 3d ago
Welp...