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Thunderstorms, multiple tornadoes... What a day!

Two weeks ago we had tornadoes. It was Friday the 13th, in fact! Today we had a couple tornadoes in the afternoon. Right now I'm watching a show on global warming, and it keeps getting interrupted by tornado warnings, in the Fort Worth area.

Crazy!

Be careful.

Tornadoes scare me big time. There are not many things scarier than hearing the tornado sirens going off in the middle of the night.

Yes, stay safe!!! When we lived in Detroit they would have sirens go off when there was a Tornado warning. We would have to go down in the basement. It was pretty scary. Most of you are probably too "young" to remember the TV Comedy Show, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman. I loved that show, anyways. I missed the last episode because we had a tornado warning and the sirens were going off. Isn't there a saying, "There is no wrath like nature's fury"

Because I was bored, I googled "Tornado Alley". The Dallas-Fort Worth area is smack dab in the middle of the action, aren't they?













Hunker down and stay safe.

Woah, one of them just whirled Mexico away and tossed Alaska and Hawaii into its place!

Heh ... I drove to Denton (little college town north of Dallas) last night to see my g/f, and took me about an hour just to navigate around Denton as the police had most every street blocked off due to the high flooding. The police all seemed to be a bit confused as well, some allowing traffic to flow, and others confusing the issue even more.



http://www.dentonrc....25.54cf09f.html

Trance

More heavy weather today. I haven't watched the news, so I don't know if there were tornadoes this time. But it was pouring cats and dogs, and the wind was crazy. I was at the office until 8:30 PM waiting for the storm to pass, and around 6:30 or 7:00, a guy came on the P.A. system and advised everyone to get away from the windows and lobbies because 100 MPH gusts had been reported in the area. He actually made the announcement twice (not twice in one go, but about 15 minutes apart, because the gusts came and went and came back). The power flickered out twice, and I could hear the wind howling and frequent thunder.

It downed a large tree in the parking lot, and when I left work, there were branches everywhere and the occassional downed tree, and power was out in patches.

Joy of joys!