Omaha - An introduction in detail
On 27th June '08, this morning Omaha was pumped up with the spirit of summer arts festival. The carnival scheduled to begin with the music bands tuning up their talents for the people. The stalls were just appeared overnight to combine the music taste with artifacts and antiques. Omaha once said to be the birth place and kingdom of red-Indians. So, Omaha was so special in its own native way.
On the same day, we had found another reason why people give a shocking face when one say that he is from Omaha, Nebraska. Continuing the spirit of art's festival in downtown, we were just alighting from the local transport (bus) to work.
We were so excited with spirit of the art carnival and one main reason could be that we could see some crowd in Omaha at last. It was a good morning sun shine and people seemed to be restless with all the excitements in the air.
The music band would be starting their performance from 12 noon, so that they could add up some spice to this tame American lunch. Also, it was on a Friday we had planned to celebrate the carnival in the evening.
As I was struck with one normal UNIX scripting, My3 had invited for the B'day treat. It was a pleasure reason to break free from UNIX window. The music blaze was already kicked of and full excitement was tuned up waiting more, more and even more. Amidst the excitement, we had finished our lunch and just had a glimpse of all stalls. Downtown Omaha seemed very different unlike usual people walking around even the weather god favors.
We took pictures of the stall and the crowd and got back to work. Lousy work and somehow the clock went passed 4:30. As we decided to start back home after enjoying the carnival, a warning message popped up from Weather.com saying that a heave thunderstorm and hail-storms expected in our region. As it said, black clouds were swirling up, at the same time warning was issued to keep off from heavy winds up to 90 miles.
As a safety measure, we had moved to first floor. The glasses on the building fluttered wildly. The huge tent which was erected as a cafeteria section for the carnival was blown away in a fraction of a second. I saw this happening just in front of my eyes. The only effect of a wind that I have had seen in my life ever. It was terrible and a bit scary as well even we were inside the building. We would never predict the impact of the nature calamity.
We just could not believe the site, that too in a very happening day in Omaha. After a few minutes of thumping sounds of hail, rain had stopped and we had moved to our desk. The view of the carnival was terrible, all tents were totally blown away and things are scattered on the road. All these happened in a minute or two. No-one expected the site in the morning and calamity of Omaha.
As tornados come and go which actually said to be disastrous, I had seen the effect of passing tornado this day. All Omaha experienced the speedy wind and the impacts are so obvious to see on the trees and electricity. Power broke down in my apartment for two complete days and believe it or not, there is no life in US without electricity. One can do nothing without electricity.
It was adventurous in one side but then the damage caused by these storms was un-imaginable. It has been just couple of months in Omaha; I have already seen tornadoes, thunder and hail storms and flash floods. This place is just blessed with everything!
On the same day, we had found another reason why people give a shocking face when one say that he is from Omaha, Nebraska. Continuing the spirit of art's festival in downtown, we were just alighting from the local transport (bus) to work.
We were so excited with spirit of the art carnival and one main reason could be that we could see some crowd in Omaha at last. It was a good morning sun shine and people seemed to be restless with all the excitements in the air.
The music band would be starting their performance from 12 noon, so that they could add up some spice to this tame American lunch. Also, it was on a Friday we had planned to celebrate the carnival in the evening.
As I was struck with one normal UNIX scripting, My3 had invited for the B'day treat. It was a pleasure reason to break free from UNIX window. The music blaze was already kicked of and full excitement was tuned up waiting more, more and even more. Amidst the excitement, we had finished our lunch and just had a glimpse of all stalls. Downtown Omaha seemed very different unlike usual people walking around even the weather god favors.
We took pictures of the stall and the crowd and got back to work. Lousy work and somehow the clock went passed 4:30. As we decided to start back home after enjoying the carnival, a warning message popped up from Weather.com saying that a heave thunderstorm and hail-storms expected in our region. As it said, black clouds were swirling up, at the same time warning was issued to keep off from heavy winds up to 90 miles.
As a safety measure, we had moved to first floor. The glasses on the building fluttered wildly. The huge tent which was erected as a cafeteria section for the carnival was blown away in a fraction of a second. I saw this happening just in front of my eyes. The only effect of a wind that I have had seen in my life ever. It was terrible and a bit scary as well even we were inside the building. We would never predict the impact of the nature calamity.
We just could not believe the site, that too in a very happening day in Omaha. After a few minutes of thumping sounds of hail, rain had stopped and we had moved to our desk. The view of the carnival was terrible, all tents were totally blown away and things are scattered on the road. All these happened in a minute or two. No-one expected the site in the morning and calamity of Omaha.
As tornados come and go which actually said to be disastrous, I had seen the effect of passing tornado this day. All Omaha experienced the speedy wind and the impacts are so obvious to see on the trees and electricity. Power broke down in my apartment for two complete days and believe it or not, there is no life in US without electricity. One can do nothing without electricity.
It was adventurous in one side but then the damage caused by these storms was un-imaginable. It has been just couple of months in Omaha; I have already seen tornadoes, thunder and hail storms and flash floods. This place is just blessed with everything!
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