Posted on 04/24/2007 11:09:56 AM PDT by sully777
Tell me about it. I wondered why they were testing them during a storm. Turns out a small tornado touched down just 2 miles south of where I live.
Ooops, we’ve got a tornado box headed towards Dallas/Forth Worth..., sounds like it was last week...
yes, I believe that’s the name Mr Prairie was saying.
A miracle nobody was killed, area folks said the funnel was very ominous.
sad too for N Texas as the wheat this year is a bumper crop w/ something like a 90 bushel yield ( that’s hugh)
What little snow we got last winter is now gone and there is an outbreak of ugly yards. As far as the eye can see. There are a lot of really nice new houses sitting out there in those really ugly yards where a lawn decoration is a piece of construction machinery that breathed its last in 1954.
Y’all take care...and hunker down!
and series
Where are you located?
25 miles due east of Lawton, Ok.
Still raining but this was a fast moving line and the thunder is now east of me as well as the purply black radar echo.
Prayers going up for you!! Stay safe, FReepers in the red zone and surrounding areas!!!
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Now, run for the basement! Or, you'll end up riding your bike in the tornado!
We drove through the butt end of that storm coming into downtown Fort Worth (yeah, that was scary!!) and I have no inclination to be near a tornado again in the near future—or ANYTIME in the future, for that matter!!
God protect us all from the weather!
Strangely enough, there hasn’t been an F5 tornado in this country since the Moore, OK F5 on May 3, 1999. Could this be the day that long streak ends???
There are a number of towns in Oklahoma that were hit over the years and never fully recovered. There is a town southeast of Tulsa called Okay (really!) and it’s like someone painted a bulls eye on the poor thing. It’s pretty much a bunch of trailer homes and a few remaining houses clustered around a railroad track. The trees are gnarled and most of the mess was abandoned to become homes for various wildlife. Really sad. But the people that remain are a determined lot.
There’s a town up near Vinita that suffered a similar fate. It’s at the end of old Highway 69. It’s a ghost town with rubble everywhere.
I’m just itching to go fishing and this is really cramping my style!
We're worried about keeping power to keep up with the severe outbreak in Dallas where our kids are living.
LOL!
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