Hoping that everyone has survived the recent storms intact...
We had some strong storms come through on Wednesday evening and we lost power... came back on about 24 hours later, around 7pm Thursday... but only lasted about 15 minutes before we had a tornado (apparently with two vortexes) come through and knocked it out again... just got restored about an hour ago....
About those tornadoes.... way too close for comfort.... most of us in the area were in our safest rooms (center of the house, room with no windows).... for us it was a bathroom and adjoining hallway... 4 dogs and us two people... we had plenty of warning as we watched the https://www.youtube.com/@TexasWeatherCenter until we lost Internet access from our phones... in fact we watch that channel pretty regularly to know what is going on with the weather...
It appears that we had one vortex pass to our south, and one to the north... moving from west to east...
Unsure of the path as it approached from the west, but seemed to split after taking out the well house (including the tank and pump!) from the property about 1/2 mile down the road... one vortex continued through the pastures until it got to our across the road neighbor's property... it took out his barn and well house... then continued across the other road and took down two buildings on his other property there... their house seems to be okay
the other vortex headed a bit more to the north, a neighbor down the road there said he saw it pass right by his property... and continued through the pastures behind our house until it got to the house of the neighbor around the corner (thankfully he was down in Conroe) got taken out... he is about 1/4 mile down the road... we haven't seen it yet since the roads were blocked with downed trees and power lines, but his neighbor from across the road took pictures and texted them out last evening....
it is hard to describe, but it seems that we got missed by a few hundred yards to our north and south... way too close...
since we were away from rooms with windows, we didn't see anything, but we could hear each of them pass... very eerie sounding... hope to never experience it again....
At about 1 hour 35 minutes in on this video is the coverage we were watching:
We were praying fervently that it stayed out in the pastures... away from the buildings and people... and it more or less did, took down barns and well houses, and the only house that it hit was unoccupied...
Fortunately we just have a mess of branches to clear away... our buildings got missed... Thank God!
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
Quote: EdJames wrote in post #1Hoping that everyone has survived the recent storms intact...
We had some strong storms come through on Wednesday evening and we lost power... came back on about 24 hours later, around 7pm Thursday... but only lasted about 15 minutes before we had a tornado (apparently with two vortexes) come through and knocked it out again... just got restored about an hour ago....
About those tornadoes.... way too close for comfort.... most of us in the area were in our safest rooms (center of the house, room with no windows).... for us it was a bathroom and adjoining hallway... 4 dogs and us two people... we had plenty of warning as we watched the https://www.youtube.com/@TexasWeatherCenter until we lost Internet access from our phones... in fact we watch that channel pretty regularly to know what is going on with the weather...
It appears that we had one vortex pass to our south, and one to the north... moving from west to east...
Unsure of the path as it approached from the west, but seemed to split after taking out the well house (including the tank and pump!) from the property about 1/2 mile down the road... one vortex continued through the pastures until it got to our across the road neighbor's property... it took out his barn and well house... then continued across the other road and took down two buildings on his other property there... their house seems to be okay
the other vortex headed a bit more to the north, a neighbor down the road there said he saw it pass right by his property... and continued through the pastures behind our house until it got to the house of the neighbor around the corner (thankfully he was down in Conroe) got taken out... he is about 1/4 mile down the road... we haven't seen it yet since the roads were blocked with downed trees and power lines, but his neighbor from across the road took pictures and texted them out last evening....
it is hard to describe, but it seems that we got missed by a few hundred yards to our north and south... way too close...
since we were away from rooms with windows, we didn't see anything, but we could hear each of them pass... very eerie sounding... hope to never experience it again....
At about 1 hour 35 minutes in on this video is the coverage we were watching:
We were praying fervently that it stayed out in the pastures... away from the buildings and people... and it more or less did, took down barns and well houses, and the only house that it hit was unoccupied...
Fortunately we just have a mess of branches to clear away... our buildings got missed... Thank God!
Another view of what what was happening, the guy has good coverage on his screen (interesting 3Dviews of the radar data), but the audio is confusing since he is talking about other storms at the same time....
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent people.” ― George Orwell
I'm still in shock over how close they got to us, surrounded us even, and the damage around here is to repairable things and not to humans! Thank God.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
Have been gone to Orlando taking grandkids to Universal, then to Leander to see one graduate from kindergarten, so I missed it.
got back this morning and found out an F1 came through nearby Coffee City (yes, that is a town's name) and destroyed a marina and boats and badly hit a golf course. It was the big oaks that came down from what the pictures showed.
Nothing bad where I live, although we apparently lost power for a few hours
“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.” . ~ Thomas Jefferson
Severe weather kills at least 5 in Texas, officials say https://justthenews.com/government/feder...aign=newsletter A sheriff said that a "search and rescue is ongoing," but he expects the number of deceased to rise. By Madeleine Hubbard Published: May 26, 2024 8:14am
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At least five people are dead following powerful storms that destroyed homes and left thousands without power on Sunday in Texas, a local sheriff said.
Three family members were among the deceased after they were found in a home near the rural community of Valley View, near the Oklahoma border, Cooke County Sheriff Ray Sappington said, The Associated Press reported.
Sappington said that a "search and rescue is ongoing," but he expects the number of deceased to rise.-- excerpt, rest at link above --
Not the same storm system that went through here Thursday.
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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