That coin is a quarter. Hail tonight in Irving, TX.
Posted on 05/24/2011 6:52:28 PM PDT by CedarDave
Amazing. Largest hail I ever saw was about the size of a raisin.
That coin is a quarter. Hail tonight in Irving, TX.
I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Genesis 12:3
17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking firepot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi[e] of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates— Genesis 15:17,18
Howdy, neighbor! Another Coppellian here. I’m waiting for the spring storms to pass to replace the roof damaged in the last few weeks’ storms.
O M G.
I can’t help myself. I’m speechless seeing such large hail.
Did you have damage ?
That’s a very cool picture.
That wasn’t mine, it was posted on the WFAA station’s website tonight. That storm will hit us within the next 30 minutes.
I see you are still posting so you must have made it unscathed. Thank god.
BTW Isn’t wunderground great?
Yes, I love wunderground.
It’s still incredible.
Be safe. I’m starting to get a little scared. The weather here is nothing like I’m used to. Hurricanes, yes. Tornadoes, no. Hail is new to me too. We had pearl sized hail Saturday. The yard was covered.
I’m watching it go into Lewisville right now. I’m about an hour away.
Correction.
Longview.
We have friends in Lewisville. I just talked to them tonight. Must still be on my mind. :)
You just have no idea how bad it can get. I had a vehicle destroyed, and I do mean destroyed, literally totalled, in what we (in DFW) call the Mayfest ‘95 storm. It was large, grapefruit-size hail. That car looked like it’d been in a war zone. It couldn’t have been more damaged if five grown men had taken a sledgehammer to it.
I only had hail about nickle to quarter size here in South Grapevine this evening. .........The Rangers ballgame has resumed!!! It’s now bottom of the 6th!
The tri-state tornado was the deadliest tornado in US history. It happened in 1925, I believe. There was no Israel at the time. How was that God’s judgment on us for messing with Israel? And if it wasn’t, it proves you can’t automatically correlate tornadoes and our policy toward Israel...as if such an absurdity really needed disproving.
And, taking the enormous leap for the sake of argument, that God's Wrath is being visited upon us for the Israel matters, why is His Anger being directed at a region that is reliably Christian and Conservative? When God smote Sodom and Gomorrah, His Just Vengeance was targeted at those involved in the abomination of homosexuality.
The absurdity of the proposition might make have some logic (if you stretch it to beyond the breaking point) if a tornado outbreak were to occur in Vermont, a state that overwhelmingly supported Obama. But Oklahoma? A state where not a single county went Democrat in the 2008 election?
You know, I think I remember that video. That was an amazing storm.
It was March 18, 1925 to be precise. It happened some two years into the Calvin Coolidge administration, perhaps the most Conservative president of the 20th Century, along with Ronald Reagan (and a favorite of the latter). Coolidge was a true American patriot and a solid Christian whose policies were certainly in harmony with God's Will. And yet nearly 700 of our countrymen lost their lives.
Da nada. Storms have moved well east of the DFW area. A few hail chunks ... 4-5 tornado warnings and 3 hrs of being scared spitless. Yeah ... Given the alternative, I’ll take it and be grateful. Amen.
There was never a touchdown anywhere near DFW airport that I know of — plenty of rotations that didn’t hit the ground, though. I live about a mile or so from DFW’s south entrance (I can be there in less than 5 minutes, even with stopping at the lights).
When the weather started, my wife and I were in the SMU area. When we left, hail started coming down and we hi-tailed it to North Park mall where they have a parking garage. Stayed there for about an hour and 15 minutes until most of what was left was just rain and lightning. We drove back to Irving around 10 — northwest highway to 183 if you are familiar with that area — and while there were some power outages, it wasn’t significant. A few tree leaves, but no limbs, were in the street and yard in our neighborhood and power was on, though it was off in some apartment complexes near our home.
Now, when we arrived, a new cell was coming over us with significant rain, some hail, and a prolific light show. Never did lose power, though we had maybe one or two little blips. As far as I could tell, my house DID lose power for a short time sometime this evening, but I’m not sure when. Not long enough for my computer to go down — ~5-10 minutes with UPS.
As far as I know, there was minimal property damage in the Fort Worth area and probably plenty of cars messed up. Roofs will need to be replaced from the hail (I was hoping mine might get in line, but that’s doubtful). Other than that, minimal damage that I have heard of, but we’ll know more tomorrow. Definitely not Joplin by ANY stretch of the imagination, but the longest weather night around here in 5-7 years.
And each time we thought it was over, there was new flareup of storms from the west. As Al Pacino said, "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in."
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