Anybody heard from TexasMark1?

Anybody heard from TexasMark1 since the Texas tornadoes? Any others from Texas?

Howells have checked in... and Texas Jim.

Hope everyone else is ok! I realize folks may have power outages too.

He replied to something first thing this morning. On the previous page now.

Ben

Thanks for the concern Lady! Knock on wood, where I live, NE of Dallas is usually pretty quiet. We miss a lot of rain but we usually also miss the big hail and wind storms.

Texas likes a big block buster every once in awhile. Years ago a twister hit the Great Plains Life building in Lubbock; single sky scraper in town. It was a 30ish story building but was rectangular; like a city block long but 1/4 block wide. The twister "twisted" the steel and brick building like you'd twist a piece of candy. Last I knew was still unoccupied.

Dallas gets one every once in awhile but does little damage.

Waco which is SW of dallas had a bad one back in '56 as I recall. Went through down town and tore up some things.

West/West Central TX. gets most of them. Granbury is on the east end of that rocky, desolate (but beautiful to the beholder), barren except for a few Mesquite trees (great B-BQ wood) land, and they get whacked occasionally. For a (reported) mile wide tornado to hit that place is really odd, and to have 12 (reported) tornadoes out of one front, multiple little intense cells, is most unusual.

The good news is that I had to plant my hay crop late as Pearl Millet has to have 65F average soil temp. It has been trying to germinate for the past several weeks and not much happening. The WF said we got between 1 and 2" which should get it on it's way. I'm thrilled as had this one not come I was looking at having to re-plant.

Thanks again,
Mark

I'm about 30 miles east of Dallas. The weather that night was just a common thunderstorm here. We did get some much needed rain though. The thing about tornados is you could live across the street from where one went through and not receive much damage.

(quoted from post at 07:14:27 05/17/13) The thing about tornados is you could live across the street from where one went through and not receive much damage.

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Maybe no damage except for the discoloration in a spectators "Fruit of the Looms" :wink:

Stephen N.,
I know, it is weird. When I was a kid, one went through our oat field and flattened a big swath. Moved along behind the next neighbor's house and took some trees and then jumped across the road to a third place - where it just destroyed that entire building site except for their house. Took all other buildings and every last tree they had on their place and flattened them.

I don't like them at all. Scary stuff. Since that one happened at night, I have never actually seen one in action - hope it stays that way.

TexasMark,

Glad you are ok.

Looked up news video of Grandbury. Bad stuff. Feel really bad for those folks.

Tx Jim,

I am pretty sure I'd just die from fright.

I am just South of Marshall in E. Tx. We have not had any bad weather here yet. But I see several places around have been hit with bad weather. It can get bad. We still are short on rain here. I did get 1/2 inch last two days.

Hammer Man

(quoted from post at 08:48:34 05/17/13) Tx Jim,

I am pretty sure I'd just die from fright.

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Tornadoes will definitely cause ones blood pressure to ELEVATE.

Hammer House,

Wish we could send you some moisture. We keep getting clobbered this spring... first with late snows, now with regular rain.

Feel really bad for the farmers. This has to be super stressful for them. (Glad we now rent out our land.)