Big storm going to pass right over my house!

[mommytotwo]

There are some earthquakes here with many tropical storms and flood warnings, but nothing really major-thankfully.


I thought that you lived in Dallas when I read your thread title. My friend who also lives there said that she was really scared and worried. She works in a 12 story building and everyone was told to go in the middle of the building-scary.

 

[Virgo10]

Yes to hurricanes including one of the bigger ones to hit this area, Carol. My mother remembers the hurricane of 1938. Now that was a BIG storm.

One small earthquake when I was about 7 and blizzards like crazy. The big one in '78, the stoopid one on April Fools Day in '97 and the one last year on President's day. In 1969 we had 3 mega snow storms in 5 days. That was pretty interesting.

I've also seen lightning hit right outside my house twice. The second time was a super storm that dropped hail the size of golf balls.

As you've probably guessed, I love weather.

Roberta

 

[chadfromdallas]

Originally posted by mommytotwo
I thought that you lived in Dallas when I read your thread title. My friend who also lives there said that she was really scared and worried. She works in a 12 story building and everyone was told to go in the middle of the building-scary.

It ended up not being too big of a deal. Maybe 10 mins of hard rain. Lots of thunder. Seemed like the normal showers we get here. They made it seem like it was a huge terrible one, lol.

 

[Hercules10]

Originally posted by chadfromdallas
They made it seem like it was a huge terrible one, lol.

He's right, the really bad ones they never see coming. Forecasting Texas weather??? Foo-get 'bout-it

 

[Princess_Aurora]

They must have made all the people in tall, glass buildings in Dallas take cover. My MIL just called. She works at the Mary Kay building off the tollway. They were right in the middle of a buisness meeting and someone came over the PA and told them all to take cover and get away from the windows. I would hate to be in that building during a storm. Not only is the outside all glass, but over half of the inside is glass too! Where re you gonna go to get away from all that glass??? Turns out each floor has a glass-free room just for occasions like these.

 

[DukeStreetKing]

1998 - Flagler county, Florida was under forest fire alert from early June through July. We finally had to get evacuated July 4th weekend. Unbelievable, the fire was only about 1/2 mile away and red-hot ash was raining from the sky right onto the roof of my house. I got up on the roof and was soaking it down with a garden hose when a County Sheriff came flying down the road telling everyone to get the h*ll out, now! We were already packed with the things we wanted to save. After a very nervous weekend, we were allowed back to what was left of our town. Thankfully, my house escaped damage, but just 1/4 mile away, homes were nothing but burned out shells.

1999 - Hurricane Floyd decided to visit Florida. He hung around a while and then decided to visit South Carolina. Thank goodness, he just brought a nightmare of wind and rain. The palm trees on my property were bending at 90 degree angles for quite some time with his force. Again, the house withstood. Could have used him the year before.

 

[katerkat]

Originally posted by Beauty
KK I thought you were going to Washington State, why did I think that????

I am going to Washington - Oklahoma is a four month detour. Unfortunately, we won't be near much out there; I think it's even more rural than Mississippi! But it's not Mississippi, so it's good!

Originally posted by peachgirl
Just remember when you get here...the weathermen here love to get a scoop on things. They always over predict the first few spring storms. While it's a little balmy (around 70), it's not hot enough to get really serious weather.

Yeah, but I can't see the weatherman and all I hear is DH talking about his storm. I'll tell him not to get too excited yet. He did see a map of the severe weather across the US, and apparently we're ending the severe weather in Mississippi and starting it in OK. Such a perfect time to move from one to the other!

 

[Planogirl]

We lost some shingles and had a stream of water coming into the living room during the storm. Oh well, roofer is coming tomorrow.

I remember Hurricane Alicia in Houston. The worst part was the loss of electricity plus the plate glass windows popping out of skyscrapers. I remember that San Antonio had several tornadoes too.

Oklahoma gets some seriously bad weather from what I've seen! A lot of wild stuff seems to pass just north of us. But they've had too much so it's bound to settle down for a while now.

 

[arminnie]

OK - I am the queen of natural disasters:

2 Tornados
small one in Dallas - a few shingles blown off the roof
Big one in Houston - cars on sides driven through houses, literally turned at my front door. Everything around me was to the ground

Too many hurricanes and hurricane related storms to mention
in New Orleans and one in Houston
Betsy in New Orleans was a horrible direct hit.

Earthquake
1989 - San Francisco, many of you may remember the footage that played over and over with the fires and bridges down.

Ice Storms - Arkansas
These are SO much worse than snow storms - no comparison. Many people were without power for over two weeks and later when you drove down the freeway all of the big trees that were toppled over and dead almost made it look like a fire had come
through. I'm not even counting being in Pittsburgh for one of the worst winters ever.

Fire
Oakland Hills - San Francisco area - really awful

Locusts - I know you think that I made this up but Houston really did get invaded sometime in the early to mid 80s. Yuck!

And guess what most of these things happened just after I moved to these places. Want to pay me not to move to your area.

Lots of people say they would never live in CA because of the earthquakes - I would take an earthquake ANY day over tornado or fire or hurricane. Just don't live or work in a building that is not up to code. My apt. was newly contructed and my office had just had a major retrofit - we had no damage to speak of. Things shook for 15 seconds and it was over.

 

[Duchie]

Lived through Hurricane Camille, but I don't remember much. I was pretty young. Then once during college we took a road trip to New Orleans. There was a hurricane that had passed through so we thought we would be OK. After we got there, it turned around and came back

 

[Nebsky]

The big T-Storm in Dallas Ft Worth was on Cinco de Mayo fesitval, May 5, 1995. Grapefruit size hail knocked the crap outta lots of cars. American Airlines had over 80 planes damaged due to the hail.
Another time, while working for AA in the Ramp Tower, they evacuated us. We could feel the tower rocking back and forth due to the winds. (If any of you drive through DFW the tower that is in the middle of Terminal A and C, that is attached is the one Im talking about)

Earthquake in 93 out in LAX. Not major or anything. Laying on the couch watching TV..feel this rumble...kinda cool...

Several BAD BAD t-Storms here in Dallas area...Only tornado that happend near here happend when I was out of town. (Fort Worth, March 2000) Im at a restraunt and wife calls me on cell phone saying there is a Tornado 5 miles away...

 

[MerryPoppins]

We live in Norman, OK. We were in the thick of it this afternoon. The schools were all in lock-down for two hours. Yep, living in tornado alley is exciting this time of year.

I've been through several tornados. Never been struck by one, but I've had them come really close. When I was 3 and my brother was in elementary school, his gymnasium was hit during the school day. Everyone was fine. The two May tornadoes in Moore, OK over the last few years have come within a mile or so of my house and they were big suckers. You know, the kind you don't want to mess with, that wipe out whole neighborhoods.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Well we survived a hurricaine that partially ripped the roof off the apartment next to ours. When we moved to the dallas area I learned the meaning of the words tornado closet, just thought we were blessed with the biggest walk in closet I ever saw. Worst tornado was when dh had to move and start new job, i was still in dallas with the 3 ds. My nice neighbor knocked on my door in driving storm and screamed at me to go in the closet. It did over $1 damage to our new town center (CHAD: does desoto ring a bell). I always listened to that weather guy troy with the bow tie. Friends of ours had to be pulled out of their house in lancaster, next town. Well now we have moved and our back to the hurricaine season mentality again. Nothing has happened in a long time so I am not too concerned.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

another Twister Alley girl here

Today was the first of what may be many storms,a twister skirted Buffalo Gap(right outside of Abilene,TX) and the twon nearby is without power(and spring break basically started today thanks to all this).DBF lives in Anson and it got skirted too,mostly trash cans and flooded lawns along with glass damage(plus more damage on the other end of town)

 

[CALIFLADY]

I lived in Northern California for two years before I moved to Yokohama 8 months ago. I never felt the earth move once in California. Since I moved here? Too, too numerous to count. I also live in a high rise apartment building here, so they really make the place sway. Frankly, after 6 weeks of being here, I was ready to leave (only because of the quakes - not for any other reason!). Sorry, but California doesn't hold a candle to Japan's earthquake count.

 

[missypie]

There were actually 2 big storms in the spring of 1995. The first was 7 days before the "big one."

During the first, we had baseball sized hail at our house...before that I thought that people were exagrating when they talked about baseball sized hail (the next weekend at Ft. Worth the hail was SOFTBALL sized!). The hail sounded just like someone was throwing a bunch of baseballs at our house. Everyone in the neighborhood got new roofs. There were roofers in the neighborhood for a full year getting it all done.

The next Friday night, where the huge hail was in Ft. Worth, there were flash floods in Dallas. I was at a choir rehearsal at church. I left and drove a block and the street looked exactly like the weather guys say to never drive in...I turned around and went back to church for a few hours. A half a block away, a first grade teacher was killed in a flash flood. Serveral choir members had their cars totalled trying to drive home in the flooded streets.