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Old 07-31-2009, 09:09 PM
 
Location: SoCA to NC
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Sadly We had 20 minutes of sheer chaos in Sunset Ridge today. We were left wondering if it was a tornado, or what? 3 homes down the street had large hard woods come down on their houses. The entire street has trees down and it looked like a hurricane had blown through. The weather this week has been especially crazy!
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Old 07-31-2009, 09:16 PM
 
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Sadly We had 20 minutes of sheer chaos in Sunset Ridge today. We were left wondering if it was a tornado, or what? 3 homes down the street had large hard woods come down on their houses. The entire street has trees down and it looked like a hurricane had blown through. The weather this week has been especially crazy!
Dude! Hope everyone's ok! Where are the pictures?
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Old 07-31-2009, 09:18 PM
 
Location: Oxxford Hunt, Cary NC
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I have ~40' pine trees in my backyard - storms make me nervous! I lost part of a gum tree earlier this week - a section of trunk 6" wide just decided to break and fall down. I need to have someone come out and cut the broken part down and haul it away.

I still wouldn't trade my trees for anything! :-)
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Old 07-31-2009, 10:48 PM
 
Location: Apex/Cary
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I was at a friend's house on skymont right before this happened. I had just gone inside Wachovia when he called and said there was a tornado, but turned out to be wind damage only. I guess it was worse towards SSR but Harris Teeter area was ok.

Some pics here:
http://www.wral.com/weather/image_gallery/5702660/

Last edited by ty320f; 07-31-2009 at 10:52 PM.. Reason: added link for pics
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Old 07-31-2009, 10:49 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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It was most likely a result of a microburst, which are heavy straight-line winds.
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Old 08-01-2009, 08:11 AM
 
Location: SoCA to NC
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It was most likely a result of a microburst, which are heavy straight-line winds.
I do believe that is what they determined it to be. But some of those clouds looked very strange!
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Old 08-01-2009, 01:36 PM
 
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I love that "splash and dash" picture, because that's exactly what the storm did.
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Old 08-01-2009, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Cary, NC
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I do believe that is what they determined it to be. But some of those clouds looked very strange!
Oh yeh! From what I remember the microbursts come straight down from the sky and then fan out in all directions. It probably brings a little bit of cloud down with it.
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