Stosh Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/07/21/two-campers-killed-including-boy-after-severe-storms-strike-boundary-waters-in-minnesota.html Edited July 21, 2016 by Stosh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blancmange Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 This is awful. Prayers for all the families affected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meyerc13 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) Yikes... some of the older Scouts from my son's Troop are up there this week. Edit - found another article that these folks were from Texas: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/07/21/severe-weather-minnesota Edited July 21, 2016 by meyerc13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desertrat77 Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Very sad. Thoughts and prayers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwazse Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 A friend's son and everyone in his troop endured the night and are now returning home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sentinel947 Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 Last year was Philmont. This year BWCA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamBam Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 So sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eagle90 Posted July 23, 2016 Share Posted July 23, 2016 Two of our scouts are on staff at Sommers. Thankfully, they are both fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WissX Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 My thoughts are out to the family's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stosh Posted July 25, 2016 Author Share Posted July 25, 2016 Lent out my canoes last week to a young family, Mom, Dad and 2 boys, 6 and 8. They said that night was quite exciting to say the least. Dad said that a small tornado passed within a few hundred yards of their site. They figured it might have been a tornado in that the area was tore up more than the surrounding forest which was quite damaged as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meyerc13 Posted July 25, 2016 Share Posted July 25, 2016 That may have also been a microburst. I drove through one in a snow storm once - went from flurries to blizzard back to flurries within the course of minutes... thankfully nobody rear ended me since I had to stop and try to pull over but was going from the 'feel' of the wheels on the pavement since I couldn't see 2 feet outside the windshield. We also had a microburst hit our neighborhood several years ago. Massive trees knocked down all facing in one direction in a 3 block wide by mile or so long section of the neighborhood. Lost a Maple in my backyard during that storm. Just as damaging as a tornado, but without the circulation - just straight on sudden super strong winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stosh Posted July 25, 2016 Author Share Posted July 25, 2016 I would think that if a tree tell on your tent, it wouldn't make much difference if it was caused by a microburst, tornado or wind shear. Over the years I've been in too many bad situations camping to appreciate any of them. If one needs a chain saw to get the equipment back out of the campsite, it's been a bad night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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