So we had some tornadoes....
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:11 am
Me being the weather nut that i am, more so than computers, and haveing one of the worst storms blow through while i am at work SUCKS!!!!!
I had brought my radio with me to work because i knew bad weather was going to be rolling in later that day, and boy did it. We had reports of over 5 tornadoes hit the metroplex, one of which i was listening to the storm spotters, was less than 5 miles from my house. (I work in dallas 23 miles away mind you) I was trying to make phone calls to my parents and GF trying to warn them, but of course phones are the first thing to go out during a major event. After the storm rolled through i was finally able to contact them before the storm hit me in dallas. My parents said thier skylights busted out from the baseball size hail and was landing IN THE HALLWAY FROM THE BATHROOM!!! My GF's card got pretty smashed up from the hail....
but the thing that got me the whole time was this tornado which was reported to be right over my house.....
[img]ftp://mulanserving.homeftp.net/Vogt-hal ... nadoe2.JPG[/img]
This was the monster that wasnt right over my house but was 5 miles away headed straight for it. We were fortunate not to have any tornado damage, but that is the closest my property (i cant say me because i was in FREAKING DALLAS AT WORK) has ever gotten to a tornado. If i was at home it would have been me taking that pic. LOL I will have to see if i can get the video from my survallience cameras of the golf ball size hail.
LOL BTW that tornado is right across from where i use to work when i was with Nextel. DANG! I know this isnt as cool of a story if it had hit us or was closer, but by god was this sure close to home!!!
I had brought my radio with me to work because i knew bad weather was going to be rolling in later that day, and boy did it. We had reports of over 5 tornadoes hit the metroplex, one of which i was listening to the storm spotters, was less than 5 miles from my house. (I work in dallas 23 miles away mind you) I was trying to make phone calls to my parents and GF trying to warn them, but of course phones are the first thing to go out during a major event. After the storm rolled through i was finally able to contact them before the storm hit me in dallas. My parents said thier skylights busted out from the baseball size hail and was landing IN THE HALLWAY FROM THE BATHROOM!!! My GF's card got pretty smashed up from the hail....
but the thing that got me the whole time was this tornado which was reported to be right over my house.....
[img]ftp://mulanserving.homeftp.net/Vogt-hal ... nadoe2.JPG[/img]
This was the monster that wasnt right over my house but was 5 miles away headed straight for it. We were fortunate not to have any tornado damage, but that is the closest my property (i cant say me because i was in FREAKING DALLAS AT WORK) has ever gotten to a tornado. If i was at home it would have been me taking that pic. LOL I will have to see if i can get the video from my survallience cameras of the golf ball size hail.
LOL BTW that tornado is right across from where i use to work when i was with Nextel. DANG! I know this isnt as cool of a story if it had hit us or was closer, but by god was this sure close to home!!!
