George R. Garrett  N9IPO © 2004
Decatur - Macon County - Illinois

These are just some of the pictures I've taken over the years
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ALL WEATHER PHOTOS ARE COPYRIGHT BY GEORGE R. GARRETT
Please do not use any of my weather photos without my permission!

Pictures taken June 21, 2007
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Nice Cell in Shelby County, Illinois just NorthWest of Effingham, Illinois.  I was in Decatur on the North side of town when I stopped and took these pictures.  The first one.. regular pic..2nd zoomed a bit.. 3rd zoomed further!  The funny thing is that Paul Hadfield www.pawleewurx.com and I took almost the same picture but he was closer to the storm than I was.. He was in the Moweaqua area.. and about 18 miles closer to it than I was.. which means HE got the better detailed picture..... durn!!  ;-)

The pictures above are from the April 19, 1996 - F3 tornado that came through our area in Central Illinois.  As it progressed to the East I took 8 pictures of the tornado and then backed up closer to the I-72 berm to get away from the high winds off the tornado!  The incline at the right side of picture is the I-72 berm!   We had quite a bit of damage here in town.  We did have one of our local storm spotters hurt in a house where he went to help a Mother and her two young boys, they huddled together under a stairwell in the basement and the frame of the house was moved over by Wyckles road.. the roof was gone, the chimney fell on Lonnie!  (a very large section), and he was hospitalized for a long time with injuries!  The Mother and her two sons were not hurt!
*Thanks to Lonnie*


Shelf Cloud near Warrensburg, Il. 2002

Popdown with Striation above it!
July 13, 2004


 

Painted Tower with Overshoot!
Reminds me of the Pillsbury doughboy!
August 9, 2004

Emery Road North and West of Forsyth, Illinois
Neat one wasn't it Paul!  ;-)
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Wallcloud 2006 Warrensburg area!


My home brew QSL card!


 

WAND TV INTERVIEW- MAY 12, 2000
It was windy out there! 
My Shack!
Great day to talk Storms!
Of  course any day is
good for  a  STORM!
  Scot England, WAND TV reporter met me to do the interview here at my house, also drove out to a couple of spotter positions on the West side of town  and also by the Niantic overpass.  Did storm good that day... right Scot!  :-)  These pictures are ones I cut out of the video that was shown on WAND TV at 5, 6, and 10 pm!  May 12, 2000!  Thanks Scot and WAND TV!

WAND TV INTERVIEW 2005

WAND TV INTERVIEW 2007

A very nice plaque I received from the
good folks at Macon County EMA!
Made a very nice Birthday present!
Many thanks Phil! ;-)

MORE WEATHER PHOTOS
March 20, 2003
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Looked promising for awhile...but no major rotation that I could detect,
but it sure was fun to watch for awhile!  Just a little pop down and pop
up funnel tip! This was up on Emery Road going East not far from Argenta!

May 14, 2003
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 Plenty of Mammatus and scud clouds....
This storm had me running West.. then East, then back West...
too many places to go, not enough time!

May  2003
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#1-Nice Big Orange Cell on Route 121 heading toward Warrensburg!
#2- looks like a funnel, but wasn't! No rotation! can you say SCUD! ;-)

June 2003

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Neat curly deal out over the road..
later I noticed the longer curl over by the tree.. wierd! ;-)
 

N9IPO
SNOWROLLERS

Nah... 
I didn't make em.. just took the pictures!  ;-)

ILLINOIS WEATHER - SNOWROLLERS!

July 25, 2006
Not many storms around.. so got a neat sunflower pic
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Now this is different, but a lot of fun!  ;-)

Baby Raccoon Rescued!
"Ringo"

   ONE baby raccoon rescued, neighbors found it last evening 
out in the street, we went over to see what they had, then I 
got a terry cloth towel and covered it up and picked it up and
put it in a dog carrier.  Found a nice lady out by Warrensburg
that would adopt him (or her) to raise and will turn (him or 
her) loose in the wild when it gets able to be on its own! 

   He is already  feeding from a bottle for her and accepting her
as Mom!  She is braver than I am.. reached in picked the
raccoon up by the nape of the neck.. ( like a mommy raccoon
would do) and took it in the house, washed the baby, dried
the baby, and put it in another crate.  Didn't take long.. 
he was HOME!  ;-)      God is good!  ;-)

   (ps:  not many storm pictures lately.. figured I'd go with this
until we get some more storms coming through!)

George R. Garrett



Muggs!

Thunderstorm Alert System by Boston Terrier!


  Thanks to Muggs!  Our Boston Terrier Thunderstorm dog!  I know ahead of time when thunderstorms are heading in our direction!  She never misses a storm, her ears go straight up and she gets as close to us as she can and is extremely nervous!    If I'm parked on the couch, 'my usual place', she will come and get as close to me as she can, even climbs up on top of my head and shoulders at times if I'm asleep!  Wakes me up pretty quick when she does that!  LOL    When that happens, I know something is up, I have to roll the van out of the garage and get out and check on the weather!   She has alerted us to storms that are as far away as the Illinois river! (around 80+ miles).   If there isn't much to the storm, if its just rain she says "never mind!"   Ain't no doubt about it ... she's good! ;-) 
And NOW her Nephew Pugsley is taking over that job, since Muggs is getting "hard of hearing" the storms don't bother her as much as they used to... Pugs is doing a good job too!  ;-)

~  She does not joke about storms!  ~


~ Sorry Guys and Gals at the NWS/ILX ~
" holler if ya need help "

If the radar shows some activity and she doesn't react...
there ain't a thing to it... been there done that!



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