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MaryM
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Posted: June 21 2007 at 5:52pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM
Has anyone ever been in the middle of a microburst before? We were working the concession stand this afternoon at my son's baseball game. It got windy then a burst hit - it upturned a very large set of bleachers and slammed them, standing upright, into the backstop. It was blowing over grills, tables, and chairs as well. The kids were scared but we were in a solid concrete structure. Fortunately there were very few bystanders and no one sitting in that particular set of bleachers and the backstop pillars were extremely strong, so there were no injuries.

Now I'm going to have an opportunity to explain the physics of this storm to the kids. Interesting rabbit trail.

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Posted: June 21 2007 at 6:05pm | IP Logged Quote Kristin
This sounds incredible --- and incredibly scary! I'm so glad that everyone was okay! To be honest, I've never heard of a microburst so I'm glad that I wasn't the one in "the middle" of one!

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Posted: June 26 2007 at 9:50am | IP Logged Quote marihalojen
Awesome!

I love weather! (when no one is harmed, of course)

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