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Heard something on the radio this morning about this... Sounds like there was a fierce thunderstorm that blew in after the craft was on the lake (Lake of the Ozarks IIRC). Talking about 5-6 foot swells and hurricane force winds. I'd thats indeed what happened, this is a very sad and tragic event.
The weather is both uncontrollable and unpredictable, man has known this form the earliest days... If this was a sudden and severe thunderstorm, there may have been telltale signs prior to launch. Perhaps consulting with local weather radar as well as the national weather service prior to launch could have made a difference.
But weather can change quickly in Missouri, I've seen it myself, in just minutes going from a sunny, hot, humid summer afternoon, to one heck of a wind whipped thunderstorm.
Weather radios are priceless.
Prayers to those who lost loved ones, I can't even imagine, in my worse dreams, what that must be like... Drowning has to be a horrible way to die...
So sad...
The weather is both uncontrollable and unpredictable, man has known this form the earliest days... If this was a sudden and severe thunderstorm, there may have been telltale signs prior to launch. Perhaps consulting with local weather radar as well as the national weather service prior to launch could have made a difference.
But weather can change quickly in Missouri, I've seen it myself, in just minutes going from a sunny, hot, humid summer afternoon, to one heck of a wind whipped thunderstorm.
Weather radios are priceless.
Prayers to those who lost loved ones, I can't even imagine, in my worse dreams, what that must be like... Drowning has to be a horrible way to die...
So sad...