interesting storm report

[Bryan Putnam]

1524 ANASTASIA ST. JOHNS FL 2983 8127 PUBLIC REPORT OF A TORNADO. WITNESS REPORTS IT BLEW A PORT-O-LET SEVERAL YARDS AND INTO HER DRIVEWAY. (JAX)

I hope no one was inside

 

[cdcollura]

Now you can send anyone some SMELLY POOP via UPS airborne!

I hope it was my ex-girlfriend (cute Filipina, lived in Jacksonville, dated LD a while) who dumped me last year ;-)

 

[Terry Tyler]

i read that man...pretty heavy...

i dont visualize the 'messy' aspect of it...but seeing port-o-lets being thrown several hundred yards is something pretty intense...and no doubt...would be some historic video...

i could imagine one of those things being tossed around in the circulation...drug around many many times...

 

[Chad Cowan]

Here is another 'interesting' storm report from 6/13/07 @ 1930z:

"THUNDER...LIGHTENING...AND 4.00 INCH HAIL REPORTED EAST OF SLAPOUT (AMA)"

Something about this report makes me question its credibility...

 

[Terry Tyler]

Here is another 'interesting' storm report from 6/13/07 @ 1930z:

"THUNDER...LIGHTENING...AND 4.00 INCH HAIL REPORTED EAST OF SLAPOUT (AMA)"

Something about this report makes me question its credibility...

sounds like another one of those bogus reports lol

 

[Doug Lee]

Slapout is a real town, albeit a small one, in the SE corner of the OK panhandle. It got its name from an expression from the original owner of the grocery store. Whenever somone asked for something he didn't have, he'd say, "I'm slap out of it!"

What I'd like to know is, how did Smackover, Arkansas get its name?

 

[John Robinson]

According to The Roads of Arkansas, legend has it that Smackover's name is a corruption of the French words sumac couvert ("covered in sumac"), a reference to the scarlet sumac bushes found in abundance in the area.

 

[Chad Cowan]

Slapout is a real town, albeit a small one, in the SE corner of the OK panhandle.

Rest assured that I was not questioning the existence of the town, but rather questioning the credibility of a storm report that includes "THUNDER...LIGHTENING"

 

[Doug Lee]

I'd never question the credibilty of a report because of just one typo. I would for lots of typos or uses of the words that are wrong but almost sound right.

I see lots of typos and wrong usage on ST. Unfortauately, I see too many while I'm composing a reply. But then I usually proofread my own stuff.

 

[Chad Cowan]

You still don't get it... including thunder and lightning (how ever you choose to spell it) in a storm report is superfluous and makes me question the reporter's reliability.

 

[Bart_Comstock]

Rest assured that I was not questioning the existence of the town, but rather questioning the credibility of a storm report that includes "THUNDER...LIGHTENING"

Does it say how Needmore, and Blue Ball, Arkansas got it's name? Both are lined up in such a way that ocasionaly when we do a storm track for a cell in that area it will read the the storm will arive in Needmore at (xx:xx) and then at Blue Ball at (xx:xx).

 

[John Robinson]

The Roads of Arkansas book doesn't say anything about Needmore or Blue Ball, but I'm trying to find out. By the way, there's a Needmore in Izard County as well, near the Sharp County line. Anyone want to ask about Toad Suck, also known as Toad Suck Ferry?

EDIT: Legend has it in Scott County that, many years ago, there was a small store where Needmore is now, and that the store needed more stock than it had. Blue Ball supposedly got its name from a family that was traveling through. The mountains in that area have a bluish tinge to them, and one of the travelers looked up and said the mountains looked like a big blue ball. This info is from the county judge's office.