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Everything is big in Texas.
Fox will blame it on Obama….
Really? I’m guessing it’s a side effect of fracking.
If one existed I would blame it on god. Guess I have to go with a natural weather occurrence during a severe thunderstorm. Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it though.
I believe the scientific explanation is that it is widely accepted that the natural enemy or prey of tornadoes is mobile homes and given there were none in the area and upon hearing about a family of illegals living in one of the semi trailers decided on going for the best alternative.
This theory is empirically proven time and again in the Southeastern states such as Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi.
Dallas, you anywhere near this? We got quite a bit of thunder boomer up near Denton but nothing like that.
No damage here. We’re about 15min drive from the touchdown areas. The sirens were howling pretty good which was the exciting part.
I was more concerned for the hail which did major damage last year and cost me a hefty deductible.
Hope all ok with you all.
On a funny note, the mailman dropped off the mail as if nothing was going on. Lol
Yeah, we’re ok. I’m such a control freak that a good thunderstorm is kinda relaxing. Raw chaos.
My wife’s car got some good hail damage a few years back. Sucks.
Glad everything is ok.
Thanks. 🙂
Funny heard near in my circles.
…. ” for tornado alerts, take cover in Cowboy Stadium. Touchdowns seldom occur there! ” har
“80 foot trailer”
I suppose I am picking nits, but an eighty foot trailer? I would doubt that they would be legal to run on a highway. The tractor and a trailer maybe 80 feet together. I could be easily wrong, but that just does not sound accurate. Not that it lessens an impressive event anyway.
Yeah, they’re talking, typing out their butts, 40 to 53 is the normal range.
59 feet is the legal limit in Texas for a trailer.
That was a bad twister, but I’ve seen worse.
I think this can be classified as “weather theater”. And when these guys ask each other if they’ve ever seen anything this bad before. I have to ask, have they lived long enough to witness everything nature can do? And in locations where it happens as often? The reason we get to see this stuff happening now, is because there are so damn many cameras pointed everywhere, outside. They’re cheap, inexpensive to operate, and can be made waterproof. So up they go, on poles, traffic lights, sides of building, you name it. And when nasty weather approaches, the fun really begins. Because they finally have something useful to reveal. Besides some guy carjacking a sweat ride.
Kinda wish one would’ve hit Wolf…while he was yapping.
It sounded like they were saying that the large debris in the air is something you don’t want to be around during a tornado. ANY airborne debris can be deadly during a tornado.
Were they loaded?
WHEW! A long time ago one picked up my Chevy and flung it a mile down the road. Luckily I wasn’t in it but I came back out side to try and find it afterwards… I was jammed under a empty school bus. All I remember was one minute I was inside the house and the next it was dark and raining like heck in the living room.
You don’t want to be near one ever.
The car was jammed under not me…
Sorry to hear about this, but…
You know why the weather is so bad in Texas? Because the weather in Texas has always BEEN bad. Forever. But when it belonged to Mexico, hardly anyone lived there. So little life or expensive property was lost, each season. One the place was taken over by the US, development started happening. First small towns. But they were most just your average cow towns. Catering to the cattle ranchers, and such. Once oil was discovered, and things really took off. Then much bigger towns and cities sprung up. And then tornadoes had a much more felt effect, as there was much more for them to feast upon.
So it’s not a case of human activity making the weather act worse than ever. And something must be done to fix it. It’s humans defying the age old weather of the region, by planting themselves in harms way, in ever greater numbers. Just like people building homes in the flood plains. Not expecting it to ever flood so much that they’d be in danger. And people building homes on seas shores. Not expecting any hurricanes to come wipe them out, either. Whenever it does, the government weather experts calculate the severity of the storm, based on the loss of life and property. Of course, 50 years earlier, the same location would likely have been hit with just as strong a storm. But hardly anyone would have been living there, then. So it didn’t count as bad.
The only real effect humans are having on the weather. Is being caught in it’s sights. Like too many wild deer straying across busy roadways. Disregarding the threat of oncoming semis. Do the deer think they’re making the truck traffic worse? Silly deer.
It’s sad to hear that something like this happened in Texas. But it is good that the outcome is not as bad as thought.
Wondering how long it will take for people to blame it on global warming.
I heard some guy was kissing another guy in the area.
Dallas, even though we disagree at times I’m glad you’re okay.
Why thank you! 🙂
If we all agreed, it would be pretty boring in here.
Great… My sister and brother-in-law live a couple of miles away.