it’s 6 pm here and Johnny is about to get hit by a severe thunderstorm (wind, hail, conditions ripe for tornado) and then it comes here. We are under tornado watch until sometime tonight.
Naturally, Johnny has an emergency set up so he won’t be without power. He called me a bit ago to say this is a bad storm.
If our city siren goes off, I’ll put supplies in a hallway here that has no windows on any side. This is typical spring weather for this area. Where I am is not far from the Oklahoma border, about an hour away, and that is a serious tornado alley.
Dallas TV is showing damage in Stevensville area now - wind driven golf ball size hail - 80 MPH winds. It’s now in Granbury and moving into Tarrant County/Fort Worth - that’s Johnny.
Stay safe. Do you guys have a basement? If not, there are tornado safe rooms for above and below ground that aren’t that bad cost wise. Might be worth a look see/research.
I have this concern for our health center too. We weren’t able to get a basement for that building too much rock, would have had to dynamite it, and couldn’t do that. I have been nagging the CEO to get tornado strengthening every time we add on to the building.
He’s finally looking at it a little more seriously, this last one hit about a mile away, the sirens sounded, and several cars were damaged from the debri flying around the parking lot.
I just keep repeating over and over our employees and patients lives are priceless - no expense is more important than that. We did find that an inside hallway could be hardened enough to with stand an EF4.
You all stay safe.