OT: Off-Topic, again.

[Legionnaire11]

I do the same and I second Horse Cave if you are on I-65. That was our stop for years on our way to SE Ohio. We don't anymore because we discovered Bardstown on Bluegrass Pkwy once it started growing.

They've also added a Buc-ee's recently between that and Franklin but I can't remember the exit. I'll check today as we are heading up there for the weekend because my nephew is getting married.

I passed that Buc-ee's during my spring break visit to Nashville. Traffic was backed up at least half a mile off of the exit on the way down but wasn't an issue on the way back up. I went once, I think it was Crossville, not my cup of tea but I see the appeal for some people. It also seems like a decent job, I hear they pay well relative to other retailers.

 

[Armourboy]

I passed that Buc-ee's during my spring break visit to Nashville. Traffic was backed up at least half a mile off of the exit on the way down but wasn't an issue on the way back up. I went once, I think it was Crossville, not my cup of tea but I see the appeal for some people. It also seems like a decent job, I hear they pay well relative to other retailers.

It's busy but they roll people through there. Clean bathrooms are a big deal for the wife so that's a factor too.

 

[drwpreds]

Per Nissan Stadium social media, the show has been postponed until tomorrow due to inclement weather. It'll be inconvenient for people traveling long distances for this, but it's for the best.

Yep that wound up being a mess for us- we had just made it to Franklin from Birmingham around 3:00 right when they announced it. So we had to turn right around head back home- a 7 hour round trip for absolutely nothing. And we missed by about 2 minutes that horrible storm that hit Franklin with golf ball sized hail. Just not a good day at all.

They waited way too long to postpone- everyone knew that weather was coming and by waiting so long a ton of people, including us, were already headed downtown, putting a lot of people in unnecessary danger. Oh well

But we were able to make it to the concert Wednesday and it was INCREDIBLE- well worth the wait and hassle.

 

[Armourboy]

For the record the Buc-ee's on I-65 is exit 38 at Smiths Grove just north of Bowling Green.

 

[Adz]

Yep that wound up being a mess for us- we had just made it to Franklin from Birmingham around 3:00 right when they announced it. So we had to turn right around head back home- a 7 hour round trip for absolutely nothing. And we missed by about 2 minutes that horrible storm that hit Franklin with golf ball sized hail. Just not a good day at all.

They waited way too long to postpone- everyone knew that weather was coming and by waiting so long a ton of people, including us, were already headed downtown, putting a lot of people in unnecessary danger. Oh well

But we were able to make it to the concert Wednesday and it was INCREDIBLE- well worth the wait and hassle.

We had that happen with a concert in Columbus a few years ago. We'd made plans with one of my HS friends to go together so he and his wife drove there from the Dayton area and Mr Adz and I drove up from Nashville. After we were both in hotels and settled in the concert was canceled due to illness, hours before it was scheduled. We were able to find something to do but it was, in essence, a wasted trip other than getting to see each other. Over a year later the concert was made up in early April, 3 weeks before we had made plans with T and L for the eclipse (it was 4 minutes of totality near their house, we'd been planning it since the eclipse in 2019 in Nashville!) So after not seeing each other for a few years we saw each other 3 times in around a year. It was great! Still, I'd have preferred NOT having a second set of expenses for hotel, etc.

 

[BigFatCat999]

1,9 Mio. Aufrufe · 12.434 Reaktionen | No, that isn't snow in late May - it’s hail covering Hwy 11 near Kearney (north of Huntsville) at 5 PM! Might need to bring those plows out of storage. 😂 Credit: Katie O’Hearn | Ontario Storm Watch

No, that isn't snow in late May - it’s hail covering Hwy 11 near Kearney (north of Huntsville) at 5 PM! Might need to bring those plows out of storage. 😂 Credit: Katie O’Hearn.

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[Legionnaire11]

I thought I'd be getting away from a lot of tornado activity by heading north, but at least this year it's not the case and apparently this is actually another hot zone for twisters, luckily the bulk of them have been south of Fort Wayne, but it's still a bit of a shock that I didn't come across this in my research of the region.

Tornadoes by state so far in 2025:
1. Missouri: 117
2. Mississippi: 116
3. Illinois: 110
4. Texas: 107
5. Indiana: 68
6. Alabama: 61
7. Arkansas: 57
8. Kentucky: 46
9. Oklahoma: 43
10. Nebraska: 40
11. Tennessee: 39
12. Georgia: 29
13. Louisiana: 28
14. Wisconsin: 26
15. Michigan: 25


And as we all know Dixie Alley is very active and dangerous, although many people are only aware of Tornado Alley. But did you know there is also a Hoosier Alley and Carolina Alley? I had never heard of them...

 

[Armourboy]

Anywhere that's fairly flat and can have large storms is at risk for them. The west's get much larger because there is basically nothing to slow them down and they get alot more turbulent air coming off the Rockies.

This map isn't super accurate as far as the red should be. For instance western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma gets some big ones and a couple have hit Ft.Smith and towns around it over the years. Western Kentucky has had several as well.

 

[Legionnaire11]

Anywhere that's fairly flat and can have large storms is at risk for them. The west's get much larger because there is basically nothing to slow them down and they get alot more turbulent air coming off the Rockies.

This map isn't super accurate as far as the red should be. For instance western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma gets some big ones and a couple have hit Ft.Smith and towns around it over the years. Western Kentucky has had several as well.

Yes, I think you should extend all of those boundaries until they touch

 

[adsfan]

I thought I'd be getting away from a lot of tornado activity by heading north, but at least this year it's not the case and apparently this is actually another hot zone for twisters, luckily the bulk of them have been south of Fort Wayne, but it's still a bit of a shock that I didn't come across this in my research of the region.

Tornadoes by state so far in 2025:
1. Missouri: 117
2. Mississippi: 116
3. Illinois: 110
4. Texas: 107
5. Indiana: 68
6. Alabama: 61
7. Arkansas: 57
8. Kentucky: 46
9. Oklahoma: 43
10. Nebraska: 40
11. Tennessee: 39
12. Georgia: 29
13. Louisiana: 28
14. Wisconsin: 26
15. Michigan: 25


And as we all know Dixie Alley is very active and dangerous, although many people are only aware of Tornado Alley. But did you know there is also a Hoosier Alley and Carolina Alley? I had never heard of them...

I grew up in Hoosier Alley. The majority of the bad spring weather came from the SW. I still remember the tornado that hit Xenia, OH. It killed about a hundred people in early April, 1974. The sky turned black, then green like an ocean!

Wikipedia says 32 killed. I heard it was triple that number. My homeroom teacher in HS had her house flattened. She had the floor and a chimney left. People had bank books that landed near Cleveland! It was a F5.