May Inland Hurricane Storm 2009

Carbondale, IL gets hit by a 20 minute 40 mile wide inland hurricane which had an average wind speed of 85 mph with gusts at ground level of 106 mph and 124 at treetop level. This is right after the tree fell on the car while we were in it. This is now being called a derecho (spanish for straight) due to the fact that nobody has hurricane insurance so the Governor came and emphasized that it was a derecho NOT a hurricane.

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Travel & Events

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• storm
• carbondale
• southern illinois
• inland hurricane
• derecho
• hurricane
• no power
• crazy storm

[daenergymon]

I have thought about it but wouldn't know who to contact. Any ideas?

[OPRAHateMYcookies]

i was in marion

[AliceZap]

Wooohooo for FedEx! They are so devoted! They should be an inspiration to us all!! LOL!

[SpringIsBACK]

Oh, yeah, e-mail the YouTube link to everyone you can think of and have them forward it, etc., etc. No need to push "selling it" -- the vid is great on its own. Try to get it on a lot of blogs, too. :-)

[SpringIsBACK]

You might try contacting FedEx through their website (iffy), but probably the best bet is to do what you can to make this vid "go viral". I think it has that potential, but you probably need to try to get it linked to on as many websites as possible. I have linked to it on mine (hope you don't mind) and I've PM'd you the link to my site, as I think YouTube will delete it here in the comments.

[SpringIsBACK]

Hey, have you guys thought about seeing if FedEx would be interested in buying that part of the vid at about 5:58? Hahaha.... I'm half-serious, though.