r/Purdue • u/Some_Morning5538 • Jun 17 '26

News📰 Everyone in Lafayette is dead

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u/DrSapersteinMD Jun 17 '26

Why would they use the same color for the background and EF-4 lol

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u/Purphect Jun 17 '26

Consider yourself lucky to be getting an EF-3. The rest of the country will experience an EF-4

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u/Quintas31519 OHS&EHS 2013 Jun 17 '26

Reminds me of the meme about hog population meme

"Each dot represents 5,000 hogs"

"Untapped infinite hog supply in the ocean"

"Each state is lined with an impenetrable wall of swine. We are trapped"

"We've lost Mexico and Canada to the hogs already"

Lol.

But really, batten down the hatches, everyone bunker down in Hicks.

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u/No-Professional5068 Jun 17 '26

Can’t wait to watch the tornadoes outside from California

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u/BentGadget Jun 17 '26

Probably with fire, too.

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u/Mindless-Loquat-1950 Jun 17 '26

bc it’s fox news

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u/Glintea117 Jun 17 '26

Purdue overnight staff walking to their buildings

https://giphy.com/gifs/NtAVqKS7RHKVWxIPQA

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u/BerryTea840 Jun 17 '26

I was once an overnight custodian there and we were considered essential personnel, which meant the only time we had off work (outside of normal weekends) was Thanksgiving or Christmas break. Everyday else—rain, shine, snow, or wind—we were expected to be there.

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u/Glintea117 Jun 17 '26

Yup, still is. Had to report on my day off for that bad snowstorm. Hadnt slept yet and needed to be in at 4 or so. Apartment complex hadnt even plowed yet, most of the roads were still messed up too

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u/Below20 Jun 17 '26

I’m supposed to leave for work right in the peak storm …

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u/WokeWook69420 Jun 17 '26

Luckily for us, we live in West Lafayette (I don't, I'm a Townie)

Anyway, as always, we pray to the Wabash River Basin. May she do her job and absorb all the storm potential so the only thing we get is some wind damage and MAYBE a few hours of power/internet loss.

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u/Superdeathrobot CompE 2025, MS 2026 Jun 17 '26

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u/Superdeathrobot CompE 2025, MS 2026 Jun 17 '26

reddit moderation is a joke.

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u/mexter Jun 17 '26

Can you paraphrase what you said?

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u/Superdeathrobot CompE 2025, MS 2026 Jun 17 '26

I'm tempted but I'm also thinking someone would report my paraphrase and get my account banned. It was just the average veo hate that occurs in this sub but for some reason reddit took offense to it. After manual review they still upheld the warning. I guess electric scooters have feelings now

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u/mexter Jun 18 '26

My son and I will point out a flock of dead birds when we see a bunch of them laying on the sidewalk. (The dominant company here used to be Bird)

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u/Edge_Lord_77 Jun 17 '26

I’m going from Davenport to Lafayette for next week 💔💔💔 I’m cooked now and next week

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u/quirky-lurk Jun 17 '26

Quad cities mentioned 🫡

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u/Edge_Lord_77 Jun 17 '26

YESSSSSS LMAOOO ITS SO BAD RN

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u/Ok_Distance_1000 Jun 17 '26

Please have a Whiteys Ice Cream Cherry Smoothie for me!

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u/aiyanalam Jun 17 '26

If this happened during the school year, we’d still have classes btw

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u/slater_just_slater Jun 17 '26

I was in Oklahoma a couple years back when we had this prediction.

EF4 hit 18 miles north of me. Growing up in Indiana i thought I had seen some shit but this was insane

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u/Prestigious-Ebb9423 Jun 17 '26

I like how cool it is now

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u/ConsciousProblem8638 Jun 17 '26

the storm is shifting south, so now only half of us are

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u/Commercial-Date-5615 Jun 17 '26

reddit is going all in on the nothing burger again

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u/phosforesent Jun 17 '26

Follow our own Local Fave Meteorologist Chad Evans on Facebook, he'll likely be livestreaming during the storm. And of course there's Ryan Hall Y'all on Youtube.

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u/johnlee3013 Postdoc Jun 17 '26

I really hope I see one (and live). It'd be the first one in my life. I've been fascinated by tornados since seeing a documentary about it when I was but a small child.

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u/iconiciguana Jun 17 '26

And of course, this storm amounted to absolutely nothing

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u/redditabulouss Jun 17 '26

i just heard thunder

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u/Embarrassed-Bid-3577 Jun 17 '26

It really doesn't look that bad 🫠

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u/No_District_9037 Boilermaker Jun 17 '26

RIP

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u/snoopray Jun 17 '26

Come over to the UIUC. There're still some people living there.

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u/Melgel4444 Jun 17 '26

I was in west lafayette when a tornado touched down in 2014 and honestly the damage wasn’t that bad

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u/Ltroky Jun 18 '26

Only thing I miss from Indiana is the storm chasing.

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u/MapOk8378 Jun 18 '26

Yeah I died

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u/RnotIt AGRY95 Jun 19 '26

It ended up most of the nasties went south.  Missed Bloomington, mostly took down trees. Somehow no trailer parks were harmed, although that one lady who survived in her bath tub was in her now destroyed mobile home out between Gosport and Bloomington.

Someone took a flight over the tornado track. It was pretty easy to follow.  https://youtu.be/KxPlMtXzc64?is=xR4LtVMi9AjArzuK