Eugene, OR microburst - DPChallenge Forums

03/13/2011 11:24:49 PM · #1

Today was a wild weather day. After we got out of church it was breezy and really warm (60+ degrees). I was working in the yard and it started to rain. Then harder. Then harder. Then torentially with strong gusts of wind. It was over in about 10 minutes. I have to guess it was a microburst. After it was over Caden and I were driving to the store and saw this damage to a house about a mile from us. Yikes!

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/13/2011 11:26:37 PM · #2

Amazing... you have leaves. :-/

Canon RF 24-70mm f/2.8 L IS

03/13/2011 11:29:10 PM · #3

Originally posted by scalvert:

Amazing... you have leaves. :-/

Yes, one of our blessings. My garden is already 75% planted. Broccoli, cabbage, beets, onions, lettuce, spinach...

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

03/13/2011 11:32:42 PM · #4

Wow, that sure does look like microburst damage! Looks like that outbuilding's a loss.
Jeez, y'all are *way* ahead on the Spring weather. My yard's still nearly a foot deep in snow :-P

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

03/13/2011 11:42:19 PM · #5

wow...

ursula

Fujifilm X-T2

Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

03/13/2011 11:49:22 PM · #6

Originally posted by DrAchoo:

Originally posted by scalvert:
Amazing... you have leaves. :-/

Yes, one of our blessings. My garden is already 75% planted. Broccoli, cabbage, beets, onions, lettuce, spinach...

Double wow!

MattO

Nikon D4

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

03/14/2011 12:21:12 AM · #7

I find two things amazing about that story.......

1. you were working in the yard and hadn't posted to DPC on needing help to do so.

2. that you worked in the yard even while it was torentially at least you never said you got out of the rain.

:D

I say this in jest and can only assume no one was hurt during the storm.

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

03/14/2011 01:03:57 AM · #8

Some big waves came along and swept away whole towns.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

03/14/2011 02:07:59 AM · #9

Originally posted by MattO:

:) I am rated to prune my Osier Dogwoods.

Yes, I did come in. It was lunchtime. Got everything done in the nick of time.

aliqui

Nikon D300s

03/14/2011 04:37:42 AM · #10

Yipes, that's a big chunk of tree. At least it was just their garage.

That little storm did indeed seem to come out of nowhere. It was bright and sunny with just some dark clouds to the west, and then the wind started to pick up. As it picked up I looked at the weather gadget on my desktop and it said 65F. It dropped 10-15 degrees in just that little amount of time. I watched as the windows in my parked car completely fogged up from the temperature change.

Nothing much happened here that I could see. I did hear a pretty loud bang across the way. There was also some plastic piping that flew off the apartment building shed and rolled across the parking lot. I braved the storm, chased it down, and put it back by the shed. I also picked up a container lid that had blown off of someone's garden supplies and put it back on the container. I'm quite the hero. They should probably feature me on the local news.

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

03/14/2011 11:40:00 AM · #11

Local hero saves rubbish bin! Details at 11.

aliqui

Nikon D300s

03/14/2011 02:00:41 PM · #12

Here's the paper's account of the wind storm. If you click the photos tab the first photo seems to be the same house you saw. "...he had two other nearby maples pruned just last week, and for health and safety reasons had scheduled the removal of the tree that fell."

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