Posted on 05/29/2024 6:30:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A chaotic scene unfolded around Dallas early Tuesday morning as a line of intense storms blasted the city before sunrise, upending travel before the morning commute following the extended Memorial Day weekend. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins issued a disaster declaration Tuesday morning in the wake of the severe storms.
A 77-mph wind gust was clocked at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at 5:47 a.m., CDT, contributing to more than 600 flight delays and 270 cancellations at the airport, according to FlightAware.
The hurricane-force wind gusts caused havoc across the area, snapping tree limbs and bringing down power lines.
Nearly 500,000 homes and businesses across Texas were without power as of early Wednesday morning, according to PowerOutage.us, including over 200,000 outages in Dallas County. Power outages could last for several days in the hardest-hit areas, according to WFAA.
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First time ever for a storm in Texas.../s
All of the telephone lines are down!
How are those fancy windmills holding up? The solar panels?
The weather people make it seem like that
3 windmills got pushed over last week and caught fire....as I understand it solar panels don’t do well in hail storms either.
Springtime in Texas.
May is a sweeps month.
Saw on the morning news a video of a full size passenger jet on the ground at the airport being blown sideways by the wind..................
Guess they’re 50 years behind the times....lol
Did it affect Dave Phelan’s thin victory or was it crossover voters?
My dad had stories of watching a C-130 on a tether turning on the tarmac on the Aleutian Islands. They had to tie the planes down.
Our friends in Van Alstyne say there’s quite a few places heavily damaged by high winds and not just tornadoes.
I am picking up what you are putting down.
SRV
And all those EV’s?
Here in Florida they do tie them down..............
Two plus decades ago I was sitting at a DFW gate waiting to board a flight delayed by approaching severe thunderstorms. I watched the wind move the tail end of a 737 away from the adjacent gate’s jetway.
That was the day a Delta jet attempting to land at DFW got caught in a down draft (outflow) from the storm and crashed just short of the threshold. You could see the black smoke from our gate. Very sad.
Wow! “Right turn, Clyde!”
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