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Originally Posted by Water Warrior
I've seen first hand the damage a tornado can do. It is an awesome force of nature and very deadly. Nothing is safe in it's path.
The only good thing about a dry season is less grass cutting.
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Lubbock was hit by two tornadoes in one night in May of 70. They killed 27 people. My wife-to-be and I were in the middle of it, at a party. Luckily, a blind guy who lived in the back of the house was also at the party, because there wasn't a square inch of his room that didn't have slivers of glass in the walls. Hail larger than softballs, it made craters in the lawns. Rainwater up to our knees. All around us roofs were lifted off, some were set back down in the steets crushing cars. There were no sirens, the mayor claimed they were disabled by the storm preceding the twisters. I don't know about that.
Even as I am typing this the weather radio alarm is going off, warning that we are under a severe thunderstorm watch. The TV news says to expect tonight to be similar to last night. So I will keep my eyes on the radar and listen to the news.