About 15 miles of us 3 railroad cars were blown off the tracks (Thrall, Tx) and about 25 miles the other direction clocked winds of 78 mph last night (Lexington, Tx). We had 5 quonset-hut style duck huts smashed by the winds. Only lost 5 ducks and had a couple of small structures destroyed.
It hit 90 3 days ago and has been warm as hell all month long.
Our entire world hangs by a thread. We did get a good rain, though.
Have you ever seen a tornado? My older bro has, in Mass. I came close a couple of times in NJ, and saw the damage from a small one: house, house, pile of debris, house…
I spent the first 25 years of my life in the Texas panhandle and I've seen several tornadoes, including seeing 2 next to one another. Maybe 10 years ago there was an F5 in Jarrell, north of Austin, that killed a number of people.I'm more worried about wildfires.
As I understand it, tornadoes have much stronger winds than hurricanes, but are much smaller in area. They used to tell us in Illinois that if a tornado was coming you should open a few windows, or the pressure differential would explode your house.
your house isn't going to go "pop" if a tornado goes by, or were you referring to pressure differential on one wall of the house vs the other? That does knock a house down, or make a mobile home rather mobile.
Hurricanes can spawn tornadoes, so they can be like two mints in one!
I think the idea was that the tornado was a a vortex of low pressure, and if you trapped the higher pressure within the house, it would explode.
Which now that I think of it is ridiculous; the windows might shatter, or there might be a rush of air through the cat door, but that would be it. Another truism of my youth destroyed!
Damn it's been raining today.
Here, too. I am hoping some of it reaches the aquifer, and doesn't all just flow downstream to L.A.
Last system was pretty wrung-out by the time it got past Yuma.
About 15 miles of us 3 railroad cars were blown off the tracks (Thrall, Tx) and about 25 miles the other direction clocked winds of 78 mph last night (Lexington, Tx). We had 5 quonset-hut style duck huts smashed by the winds. Only lost 5 ducks and had a couple of small structures destroyed.
It hit 90 3 days ago and has been warm as hell all month long.
Our entire world hangs by a thread. We did get a good rain, though.
Hugs from SoCal to all those impacted by this shit. ENOUGH!
[A stiff breeze here.]
Phil's an asshole.
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It was nearer to San Antonio. And that used to be considered too far south to get a tornado.
Have you ever seen a tornado? My older bro has, in Mass. I came close a couple of times in NJ, and saw the damage from a small one: house, house, pile of debris, house…
I spent the first 25 years of my life in the Texas panhandle and I've seen several tornadoes, including seeing 2 next to one another. Maybe 10 years ago there was an F5 in Jarrell, north of Austin, that killed a number of people.I'm more worried about wildfires.
As I understand it, tornadoes have much stronger winds than hurricanes, but are much smaller in area. They used to tell us in Illinois that if a tornado was coming you should open a few windows, or the pressure differential would explode your house.
Stay dry, buddy.
I could see that. Easier to dodge a tornado than a wildfire. The latter has a wider front.
your house isn't going to go "pop" if a tornado goes by, or were you referring to pressure differential on one wall of the house vs the other? That does knock a house down, or make a mobile home rather mobile.
Hurricanes can spawn tornadoes, so they can be like two mints in one!
I think the idea was that the tornado was a a vortex of low pressure, and if you trapped the higher pressure within the house, it would explode.
Which now that I think of it is ridiculous; the windows might shatter, or there might be a rush of air through the cat door, but that would be it. Another truism of my youth destroyed!