Posted on 05/24/2011 6:52:28 PM PDT by CedarDave
Tornado's as described in title.
Listen live at the link:
From 5 News in Fort Smith:
http://www.5newsonline.com/news/5live/
They are reporting that Denning, Arkansas has been hit with severe damage. Also damage in Etna.
If you have loved ones in the Denning/Etna/Greenwood area (the little Greenwood, not the big one) you need to check in on them.
April/May is the prime time for Tornadoes in the US. The fact that the last several years have been unusually mild only makes this year seem more violent. This is normal.
You might be able to dig a space for a large shelter on your property. Using wood for reinforcement, and burying it under about four to five feet of dirt could make you fairly safe.
Burying overlapping tin sheets a couple of feet over the shelter and a few feet under the surface could keep the shelter from collecting moisture when it rained. You’d have to seal the wood with tar paper and tar too.
It would be a low cost way to go, and provide you with a fairly good resource.
Just make sure to use some adequate beams, 4x6s or some such to build a sturdy frame.
Make a storm shelter door on one end. Build it so it isn’t in a place where water normally collects.
This is a rough idea. You could probably find a resource on the internet, or a friend to help you.
It WAS an amazing storm! I think I was watching the local NBC channel and the cameras showed the windows at the studio were being broken from the hail stones. They had the blinds down on the windows, but glass was still flying around.
I remember that storm. I got stuck in Arlington on a job and had to wait for the whole thing to blow through while seperated from my family. Driving back to FW was so eerie, Cars all along the interstate leading ito FW with windows broken and dents. It looked like a war zone. Hubby had saved some of the hailstones and they were the size of baseballs and grapefruits with these jagged edges. Really wicked! It was even worse in Aledo. No leaves left on the trees...at all!!
That’s really nice (best thing about FR, the people!) I had an email from him when I got up this morning. He said he got hail and a heck of a show, but nothing more. He lives alone, so I worry a little more. I just don’t want him to KNOW I worry. ;)
Yes, I have family all over TX. 3 sons (one in Houston, one in Austin, one in Plano) and family in Midland, other parts of the DFW Metroplex and then various other areas of TX. And we’ll just leave NM out of it for now... ;)
When we had the tornado damage in 94 (punched a hole in the roof) before we could get it fixed, we had a hail storm that totaled the roof anyway. The insurance company got off easy! They only had to fix it once. Good thing we hadn’t already gotten it done!
Good job that you thought to get photos!
Thanks for asking - we're all good. We only got a few small dings in the truck, and I'm pretty sure our roof is alright.
At one point we were getting golf ball sized hail, and it sounded like it would come straight through the roof.
I've heard of those effects when twisters are dropping out of major thunderstorms, but I've never seen it up close. Hope I never do!
Glad you're all good.
Friend of mine who lives near Walnut Hill and Beltline in Irving, said that all of the cars in the parking lot of her apartment building lost their windshields last night.
Thanks for posting the pic of your hail stones. I grabbed some from our front yard during a lull in the storm, but forgot to snap a pic. The largest were about golf ball sized. Biggest hail stones I’ve ever seen.
Got caught in a hailstorm in Louisiana last month ... $4300 to repair including windshield replacement.
Amen.
Call your insurance agent. Have an adjuster assess the condition of your roof even though it looks okay. It may be partially damaged but you can’t see it. This is the hail capital of the world. So insurance companies will get out of paying for a new roof if they can. If a certain percentage of the homes in your neighborhood have roofs replaced and you don’t assess your roof the insurance company won’t pay for a new roof if/when it is damaged. They’ll claim negligence on your part. They’ll say it was damaged in this storm and you did nothing. If it’s over a year from now when you do need a new roof, they’ll say your time period to file a claim from this storm expired. I’ve seen it a few times in 23 years here.
Have an adjuster take a quick peak at it.
Call your insurance agent. Have an adjuster assess the condition of your roof even though it looks okay. It may be partially damaged but you can’t see it. This is the hail capital of the world. So insurance companies will get out of paying for a new roof if they can. If a certain percentage of the homes in your neighborhood have roofs replaced and you don’t assess your roof the insurance company won’t pay for a new roof if/when it is damaged. They’ll claim negligence on your part. They’ll say it was damaged in this storm and you did nothing. If it’s over a year from now when you do need a new roof, they’ll say your time period to file a claim from this storm expired. I’ve seen it a few times in 23 years here.
Have an adjuster take a quick peak at it.
We are not to question God why tragedy strikes.
God is good. Satan comes to seek, steal, and destroy.
But the Bible is specific on blessings and curses for those nations who are for and against Israel.
God has conditions in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that He will forgive and heal our land if we repent and change our ways.
He doesn't answer pray for husbands who don't love their wives...
Nations are judged by their leaders. I believe that those events were the result of attempts to change the covenant borders of Isreal.
Do you think He uses the wife's opinion as His standard?
Is that ‘Texas-sized’ hail he’s got there?
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