Our very own yearly "Wizard of Oz" home movie.

[Pierre le Grand]

Here I was minding my own business, buying hose clamps at Lowe's for my keg lines and this is what comes zipping by behind the store. Not a great picture, but look on top of the Burger King.



January! WTF!

And check this out...my father-in-law watched this from on top of the corn silo...

http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0108/485937_video.html?ref=newsstory

And this is what it did to the trailer park that lies a quarter mile from the family farm. There is nothing left, next year it'll grow corn...

http://ozarksfirst.com/media_player.php?media_id=25716

This happens at least once a year. Some poor bastards have had their homes completely destroyed, only to rebuild again, and have them wiped out again. Fortunately, this one took a little different path. We take these tornadoes seriously around here.

I think we had 12 last night.

[trevmoon]

This happens here in OK every year as well. The thing is they always interview the redneck who don't speak no well and who's wife is in a moo moo with curlers in her hair (like anything is going to make her atractive). It makes me crazy to watch the news during sevre weather. It's really been bad since we had the May 3, 1999 torando in OKC. Now it seems like they have continuous coverage everytime it rains, snows or gets real windy. Don't get me wrong, I want to know if it's getting bad, I just don't need a play by play of every sevre storm or ice storm.

Glad you and yours are ok. We got just a little of that down here. Now it's nice and cold again. In the last 2 weeks we've seen ice, 6" of snow in 3 hours and highs around 80. Got to love the central US.

[Pierre le Grand]

No joke there. Whenever any of our local news goes national, they always pick the hillbilly inerview to show the world. I just want to shoot myself.

On the other hand, I'm happy that people don't see this area as "culturally elite". It keeps many people from moving here and messing up the mostly rural atmospere. There is a reason I don't live in California (no offense to those that do), but I like to see God's earth before people screw it up too much.

[northern brewer]

And this is what it did to the trailer park that lies a quarter mile from the family farm. There is nothing left, next year it'll grow corn...

Gods response to trailer trash.

[Pierre le Grand]

And this is what it did to the trailer park that lies a quarter mile from the family farm. There is nothing left, next year it'll grow corn...

Gods response to trailer trash.

Oh Crap! It'll be Armageddon for us!

[seanhagerty]

Where do you live in the ozarks?

I'm east of Springfield about 80 miles

Sean

[Motor]

I grew up in a small town 70 miles up into the redwoods north of San Francisco. It floods (in the lowlands) almost every year. One New Years Day, while watching bowl games, I made a $50 bet that the news would not interview one person who was flooded who had all their teeth. I kept my $50.

http://asta.users.sonic.net/flood/

If you go to the photo section for the Stumptown Brewery and search around....

www.stumptown.com

you can see nice summer views of the river from the brewery's deck and winter flood photos when the river is flowing through the brewery.

Take care and hope floods and all other bad weather avoids you-

-Motor

ps: beerschool.com

[Pierre le Grand]

Where do you live in the ozarks?

I'm east of Springfield about 80 miles

Sean

Hey Sean, I know Waynesville. I live about 35 miles on the other side of Springfield, in Monett. What do you do over there, and where do you get your supplies from.

I go to Ozark at the "Homebrewery".

I really don't know many homebrewers in this area. It would be nice to know.

Pete