ScottC4746
OBS Chief
I am leaving from LAX on SWC 4 to CHI Monday 3 June and then leave CHI on 6 June for EMY on the CZ5. I am getting concerned. Should I be.
No Amtrak train has been hit by a tornado, but the Empire Builder was derailed by a tornado in 1931. My favorite line: "five of the coaches were torn loose from the engine and lifted bodily from the rails, the farthest one being hurled 80 feet away"Get a direct hit by a tornadoe to a passenger train has yet to happen. Best of my knowledge. The result would be like any other derailment, a lot of ambulance, fire trucks, and a small town mobilizing to welcome 300 people who are having a bad day.
The National Weather Service's medium-range weather forecasts (i.e., out to 6 days in the future), show some rain showers moving through the Midwest on June 5 and 6, but currently there are no forecasts for thunderstorms in the Chicago area for those dates. And the forecasts for CAPE "Convective Available Potential Energy") are not particularly high on either the route of the SWC or CZ for those two days. CAPE is forecast to be higher in New Mexico and Texas for those days. So, my guess is that you might see some lightning around ABQ and Santa Fe, I don't think that there will be any significant tornado threat for Tornado Alley of eastern Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska for the specific dates of your travel.I am leaving from LAX on SWC 4 to CHI Monday 3 June and then leave CHI on 6 June for EMY on the CZ5. I am getting concerned. Should I be.
Sick, But very funny :lol:If your train becomes airborne, will the TSA become involved?
"I am sorry, sir, but we will have to confiscate your prohibited knife. Sir? Sir, please try and stay awake or you will be arrested for interfering with the TSA. Sir, stop bleeding on the ground and put your blood in a quart bag."
Train: No. Plane: Yes. Approaching Atlanta. I sensed a blue ball of "something" go down the aisle during the process, but this might have been an optical illusion. Pilot came on the P.A. shortly afterward to confirm the strike but reassure passengers and crew that he and copilot still had full control of the plane. Although, after we landed, the plane was taken out of service and I observed maintenance workers examing the top of the vertical stabilizer.Anyone been on a train hit by lightning?
Same for my boyfriend. He always loved flying and wanted to be a pilot when he was a kid, but his plane was struck by lightning when he was eight or nine, and he's been terrified of flying ever since. (The plane was fine, but it was kind of iffy with lots of jolts for a little while.)Train: No. Plane: Yes. Approaching Atlanta. I sensed a blue ball of "something" go down the aisle during the process, but this might have been an optical illusion. Pilot came on the P.A. shortly afterward to confirm the strike but reassure passengers and crew that he and copilot still had full control of the plane. Although, after we landed, the plane was taken out of service and I observed maintenance workers examing the top of the vertical stabilizer.Anyone been on a train hit by lightning?
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