It was a close call last night, but the tornado pulled back up into the storm as it passed over my neighborhood. I can't believe that I came that close to a tornado. My wife was putting the kids to bed and I was cleaning the kitchen when I barely heard the tornado sirens in the distance. I turned on the TV to get the national weather service tornado warning. Well, the tornado was just east of FT Worth at the time, and I live in far East Dallas, so I figured we were ok. The storm moved very quickly and in seemingly no time it was through Irving and passing through N. Dallas. It was on a direct line to my neighborhood. When it was about 20 minutes away the rain started. I still wasn't too worried. When it was about 5 miles away things got eerie. When the wind died and the rain died I grabbed the wife and kids and went to the tornado hideout (no basements in texas). For a couple of minutes I felt like I was overreacting until the wind got crazy. That lasted a few minutes and seemed to pass over. The rain quickly died to a drizzle as well. I went outside to see if our half dead tree had fallen (it hadn't) but in my neighbors yard 2 trees were split in half and corrogated alluminum sheets were thrown all over her yard and several other yards. One sheet had taken out her light post. The news reported there was some severe damage very near by. I assume the metal sheets were from nearby buildings that got hit with wind sheer. However, no damage at all to my house.
I called to check on a friend who lives about 2 miles from my house. He had quarter sized hail hit their neighborhood. Just 2 miles away and he got a totally different experience. About 10 miles north of me another friend said he and his roomate stood on their balcony during the whole storm, even with the marble sized hail coming down. He said it was more of just a bad thunderstorm near him.
Amazingly, we never lost power, though we did have some brown outs. This neighborhood loses power in every storm, yet tornadic storm passes with serious wind sheer and nothing. Ha!
I'll see if I can get some pictures of the local damage.

coming from a hurricane vetran of many storms,time to prepare! make sure you have a tornado shelter,water ,flash lights, GAS for the future ! man no basements? wtf do you do if one comes? glad you guys are ok!

Damn Bar! Glad to hear it missed ya. That must of got the blood flowing. That is one weather event i hope to never witness!

Wow Bar,

Sounds like a close call, glad you and your family are all safe and sound!!! No damage to your house and yard is just icing on the cake. Sounds like it might make for a great short story:)

T/A6Pak

Hey Bargod,Im glad to hear you and your loved ones are alright!! I've been watching that wheather system and it's due here sunday hopefully minus the tornados.



I'll be stopping by to clean and skim your POOL,minus the Pink TOO TOO...Cause I got some kinda Rash again, been rideing behind Radiation on the 50 cal.Jezz even if your down wind of that guy your bound to catch something.



Take care Buddy..."T.M"

That was close Chris,but glad your family is all ok.

I wonder how scary those pics you post will be Mr.BG.... Undead's past pics were pretty hair-raising !

Bar, I was in Ft. Worth yesterday because I had a flight to California this morning. My family and I never knew a tornado came through until my sister took me to the airport this morning. It caused a mess in Haltom City near where she works. It was pretty close and we had no clue! Glad to hear you made it through okay.

By the time I found my damn camera (wife had it on her trip) they had cleaned up the neighborhood, for the most part. Oh, well. We were really lucky it was a small tornado and was dropping in and out of the sky. Haltom City got hit really hard, as well as Saginaw. Oddly enough, one of my nearby friends was in Saginaw when it hit there. It hit right down the street from her mom's house. They are all fine as well. Tornados are so random. Not like a hurricane. Those just wipe out everything, lol.

Good to hear you and your family ok.

But what about your bar? is that ok?

Wow Bargod.



If you don't be careful, you will end up being a Ghost like me !

Dammit, I knew my finger missed your place.

Man, must say that it is always good news when you here that someone is safe after a tantrum from mother nature, she could be a real Bitch. Glad you and your family are OK. The planet is definately changing for the worst, for ex.: in South Africa we don't have tornados or huricanes or earthquakes, but now we are starting to show signs of these weather phenomena more often. We have been screwing with this planet and now she is starting to screw with us and she is much better it.