Yup - the closest sirens are a mile away at Heritage Elementry School. We heard them - the dogs freaked. Highland Village does have an automatic calling system that warns you of any weather issues.

It's bad enough in SC, and I'm not near the coast. The river, on the other hand...

Here is a pic of the stone that went through the sky lite at work - it has melted a little bit but you can get a fix on the size of this thing. If it hit ya in the noggin you would be playing golf with Bob Hope right now...


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1306418315.jpg

This fell in Norman OK two days ago.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1306421872.jpg

Wow, that's huge !!

Yea, and imagine it fell from the sky! How did wind ever hold it up in the atmosphere. That is a STRONG wind to push that thing UP.

We are under a tornado warning right now.
Not a common occurrence around here.

I was up at our place in Hubbarton helping my mom out with the house last year when what they called "microbursts" sort of tornado like wind events created some real havoc on Bomoseen, and it continued up to Beebe and Burr Pond..

Also year or so before that there was a microburst/tornado at Copake.. you can see the path of the funnel as it cut across the Taconic Parkway

Are you sure it was last year? There was a real Tornado that went through that area a bit over 10 years ago. It continued through into Mass and went basically along MA23.

Last year I was at our place in Vermont, and there was a microburst at Bomoseen, and as I mentioned that cell followed the valleys up to Burr Pond.....

There is a part of the Taconic mountains that is like a mini-me Tornado alley...I remember seeing the damage from the Tornado a few years ago, and there have been some serious scary weather events in that area... i.e. at Copake..

Wishing those in the real Tornado alley godspeed,

-I flew into Anchorage, Alaska one night out of Hong Kong. We got there with min-fuel, and I flew the ILS approach down to minimums; Blowing snow, 1/2 mile visibility...quote un-quote!

We get through customs/immigration, and wind up in the lobby of the airport. They have a stuffed polar bear that is about 11 feet tall in their lobby just to gently remind you where you are. Anyway, the snow outside is now completely sideways. I can't see the other side of the parking lot. Suddenly, the hotel van shows up; a rear-drive late model Ford van.

Is this drive to the hotel going to be safe? I ask myself as I walk out the doors to the van. Snow going everywhere, including down the back of my leather flying jacket, as I load my bag and backpack. We load up, and then we try to get to the hotel...

Ford's vans are well-built, but they are still old-fashioned Hotchkiss-drive machines with live axle rear ends. We wound our way toward the hotel, the van slipping and sliding in the 13 inches [35 cm] of new snow on all the roads. The van was literally fish-tailing down the street, when the van driver asked us, non-chalantly:

"Where are yah from?"

I replied that I was from Florida.

"FLORIDA! How da hell do yah deal with all them hurricanes down dare?" She said.

As the van fishtailed down the street! I'm serious- she was incredulous about the hurricanes in Florida while the van she was driving could barely stay on the road due to the BLIZZARD we were driving in! I laughed (internally) and told her that they get more press than they deserve. Which is true-

Moral: You get crap everywhere. Deal with it or move-

N!