Wild Weather
 

We've had heavy rain / thunderstorms and the obligatory flash flood and tornado watches that are part of the package for the last few days.

The phones have been ringing off the hook from all the alerts. To the point that we have started ignoring them.

Ran out with my daughter to grab a few things and as we are leaving the store my wife calls. Says be careful, tornado warning for our immediate area. She and the boy are hanging out in the safe room just in case.

As my daughter and I pull onto the main road that leads to our development we see the sky is green in the direction of home.

On the 3 mile trip home the ominous sky is moving North so by the time we get home it's pretty much clear.

Guess we just missed it.

Taken by a resident in our development.

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We were shooting in Decateur on Thursday - left 10 minutes before the first twister touched. We were about 10 minutes ahead of the wall cloud all the way home. Had a good shoot at Ducks Unlimited on Saturday but again the weather kicked in and rained the morning but the afternoon was good. Today, same ol same ol - twister warnings all day. Not taking them too serious which is a bad thing I guess.

The one in the pic rolled North up 377 into Denton.

I think its only the beginning. This summer will see a bunch more. The old women who died up north of us was in her shelter and the rains came in and she drowned. Sad really. Must have been horrible.

Spring in the midwest, such is life. My biggest complaint is that we can't seem to get rid of the cold. It's back in the 60s here today. I'm ready for summer.

Snowing this morning.....

Took the snow tires off the Venza yesterday.

Cause/effect?

I saw Colorado was in the high 20's yesterday. Brrr....

Stay safe guys!

Yes. This is exactly why I put the snow plow on before it snows. Snow plow on in November - no snow until January. If I get busy and don't mount it up, it snows on Thanksgiving.

This.

Last year was very dry and we just could not get any rain. We had only 3 inches of rain from Jan to May last year. Right now we are over 20 inches of rain. No one is really complaining about the rain, but it is time to get some summer temps.

The weather in North Texas can turn on you in a hurry. I've had my fair share of it.

Most memorable would be toting 14 lighting rods up to the 15th tee, farthest point from shelter, and seeing a wall of green.

It's a not a good feeling.

I made the drive from jersey to Austin for the MotoGP in April and could not believe the amount of rain I hit all the way thru Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. All y'all stay safe.

We woke up to the tornado sirens yesterday at 7AM. Fortunately is was a false alarm, but I looked at the weather radar and saw a wall of red. I placed a glass of water outside by my garage and it showed that got about 2.5" of rain in about 2 hours. Lakes are just about all full in North Texas.

I hope so, we'd like to do some boating in TX this year. We have family in DFW that want us to bring our boat down, but there hasn't been any water!

We've decided we're gonna take the insurance money and rebuild.

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Not making light of y'alls weather so much as California's lack of it.

Woke up Sunday Morning to Tornado Sirens and dire warnings. Did some wind damage downtown, about 4 miles South of here.


On the Positive side, my sister lives on water from Lake Palo Pinto, about 60 miles West of Ft. Worth. They were in a water emergency a month ago, forecasting running out of water in April. The lake was at 8.9% of capacity just a month ago.

Now at 93%. Problem solved.

Water Data For Texas