Damage keeps adding up. Now there is a state of emergency declared and a curfew
Glad you are OK, Pal!
I've been through lots of tornadoes (west Texas native, south Texas raised, Indiana resident), but I have not seen a "good one," yet.
About a month ago, a really quick moving storm came through. We had only a few shingles blown off, but my neighbor, diagonally across the street, lost a waist-wide, red maple tree. That was no wimpy tree, being an established red maple, but after the storm, it looked like a pencil snapped between your fingers. It is difficult to imagine the force it took to do that to THAT kind of tree. None of his shingles were damaged, nothing else in his yard was touched, even his cheap deck table and chairs were still there - about thirty feet from the tree that snapped in two. His neighbor on the other side had a tarp covering some garage sale items (probably eighty feet away), but the tarp was not even lifted.
Sound like a tornado? It does to me, but the "official" word was that it was caused by wind sheer.
I do have a nice pile of maple wood for the grille and another neighbor down the street who helped to clean it all up has a huge pile of wood for the winter.
I find inclement weather exciting myself.
Same here, but I would rather just watch.
