All hail breaks loose in Texas....literally!

SoWal Expert

Apr 13, '07 · 7:14 PM1,759

So I get home at 5:00...weather is sunny. Son states he needs to drop off a job app by a mall about 10 miles away. I tell him storm's a comin', but agree to take him. His car is in shop indefinitely. We jump in the truck and take the dog. We get to the destination and he's only in there about 5 min while I read "Entertainment" mag about AI and wait. He then comes out and asks if I'll drop him off at a friend's house that is sorta on the way home. I say ok. Big mistake.
We arrive at friend's house just as storm sirens begin to go off...

He jumps out, I figure I can outrun it...:shock:
The sirens are continuously going off, the dog's freaking out and all of the sudden the proverbial bottom drops out...

HAIL, HAIL and more HAIL!! Golf ball size, but when you're in a vehicle it sounds horrible!! Dog begins to really freak out...starts whining. So now, I have mr. dd on the cell telling me to take cover (ok, honey, where?) the dog whining, the radio saying take cover and the sirens still going off!

Oh and did I mention blinding rain?
I finally find half of an awning to pull under and wait it out. I get home finally and there's hail all over the front yard. Dog BOLTS from the truck into the house. Now I see a tornado hit about 10 miles from where I was.
Now....sun shining and rainbows. All I can say is Miss Kitty, you got outta town just in time!!

Replies

bean

Apr 13, '07 · 9:24 PM#27

Wow, DD. I'm all for wild weather too but not hail. Glad you are okay!!!! Scaaarey.

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Apr 13, '07 · 9:25 PM#28

Wow, DD. I'm all for wild weather too but not hail. Glad you are okay!!!! Scaaarey.

Oh my gosh, OL!! I just noticed your tar!!!! Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:clap_1: :clap_1: :clap_1:

SoWal Insider

Apr 13, '07 · 9:41 PM#29

Thanks, gttbm!!

They always take a hard left, instead of veer slightly.

FunnChef - AlisonCooks.com

Apr 13, '07 · 9:55 PM#30

Thank goodness you are OK!!! What a scary incident!! Driving in pouring rain is tough...but to have to do it with hail and a terrified dog..... :creepy:

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Apr 13, '07 · 9:56 PM#31

Thank goodness you are OK!!! What a scary incident!! Driving in pouring rain is tough...but to have to do it with hail and a terrified dog.....

Thanks...makes for a good story!

(Now that it's over)

Beach Fanatic

Apr 13, '07 · 9:59 PM#32

Well I'm trying to get a hold of BB to let her know about it, copied and pasted DD posting in an email and left a phone message, but looks like she's a step ahead of me.

I have to drive up to B'ham tomorrow morning. 30gAy- I just got a new car too, Can you ride shot gun with your hair dryer and protect us from the hailstorm? I have an adapter for AC/DC. No pun intended.:funn:

K

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Apr 13, '07 · 10:02 PM#33

Well I'm trying to get a hold of BB to let her know about it, copied and pasted DD posting in an email and left a phone message, but looks like she's a step ahead of me.

I have to drive up to B'ham tomorrow morning. 30gAy- I just got a new car too, Can you ride shot gun with your hair dryer and protect us from the hailstorm? I have an adapter for AC/DC. No pun intended.:funn:

K

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Apr 13, '07 · 10:04 PM#34

Some pics I lifted off the local news....

fartblossom

Apr 14, '07 · 6:56 AM#35

glad you all survived the storms - mango i will crossing my fingers you make it out on saturday !

Beach Fanatic

Apr 14, '07 · 10:38 AM#36

Well, dd, I actually thought about you last night while I was flipping back and forth between the 4 local channels (until Fox 4 vanished)- the last time my car was hail damaged was in Grapevine while visiting friends. It was a week BEFORE the big one in '95- my red Plymouth Sundance looked like someone had taken a ballpean hammer to it. And the one time hail broke out a window in our house there in NRH, the hail actually bounced off the ground, broke into huge pieces and hit and cracked the window. We lucked out, here in "the Sticks" but I was watching it!

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Apr 14, '07 · 1:22 PM#37

Well, dd, I actually thought about you last night while I was flipping back and forth between the 4 local channels (until Fox 4 vanished)- the last time my car was hail damaged was in Grapevine while visiting friends. It was a week BEFORE the big one in '95- my red Plymouth Sundance looked like someone had taken a ballpean hammer to it. And the one time hail broke out a window in our house there in NRH, the hail actually bounced off the ground, broke into huge pieces and hit and cracked the window. We lucked out, here in "the Sticks" but I was watching it!

Thanks. I thought about you too. Wondered if you were getting pounded. Yes, I remember that storm in Grapevine...we were at a bar then too...hmmmm... is there a pattern here? Anyway, our friend had just gotten a new car and since he didn't have a hair dryer :floor:

, he went out and threw himself on his car. But, he didn't stay long...hail got too big.

SoWal Insider

Apr 14, '07 · 1:28 PM#38

Lady, hope your family here is ok. It's been pretty widespread and sporadic damage, so hopefully, they dodged the bullet. You be safe too where you are.

My mom spoke with her niece and luckily the tornado was not near them and did not hit their neighborhood. My cousin lives on Broken Gap Rd. wherever that is in Fort Worth and her son and his wife live on Holly Ridge Ln., it was not near either place thank goodness.

Meow

Apr 14, '07 · 6:21 PM#39

...HAIL, this is even more terrifying reading it sober!!!!! So glad you are safe. Of course we had a bunch of new plants installed before we left! :roll: Hope they just got a good soak and not golf balled.

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Apr 15, '07 · 12:01 AM#40

...HAIL, this is even more terrifying reading it sober!!!!! So glad you are safe. Of course we had a bunch of new plants installed before we left! :roll: Hope they just got a good soak and not golf balled.

I hope so too...my plants seemed to do ok, so maybe yours did too. And only a couple of tiny little dents in the Pathfinder.