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Well, THAT was exciting...
Jul. 24th, 2007 01:47 amTalk about weather -- this monster cell opened up just north of us and kept growing, dumping TONS of water on us. W and I were IMing through Gmail -- I was pointing out that it was nasty and looking nastier -- and then there was a big lightning strike close enough to see the flash out of the corner of my eye. And I thought a friend had trouble with lightning in **his** neighborhood!
I encouraged him to a) hold off coming home and b) check radar himself. This was followed from him by, Oh, crap, it's getting worse...
Careening around the corner, I had time to see on the TV a magenta cell opening up. I passed this along, and said I was shutting down (already lost power once -- the backup power/surge protector did its job) with visions of another wall of water heading our way.
Silly me, it's been so long since I've worried about tornadoes that didn't occur to me.
It touched down in Georgetown -- no word on damage or injuries -- but I must say that I'm glad I haven't moved farther north -- a few years back there was a Cedar Park tornado that took the roof off an HEB -- about 45 minutes after I'd driven by the thing. Clearly, there is a line somewhere north of us that calls the weather. There's a tiny town near Elizabeth Moon's town that was wiped off the map by a suspected F5 tornado....
At any rate, the magenta dot shrank and vanished, the rain died down, W got home safely and went to class -- we went out later for dinner.
I shocked the pool big time -- more "tropical weather" heading our way.
EDIT: Tally lost in lightning strike -- garage door opener, hot tub control panel, and half a wall socket. (Go figure...) The garage door opener cannot be fixed until we move some stuff under it. The hot tub people are looking for an archaic board for us. And the plug? Well, I will get something to use to get the cd player hooked up from another source. And mention the socket when we finally move the A/C controls.
I encouraged him to a) hold off coming home and b) check radar himself. This was followed from him by, Oh, crap, it's getting worse...
Careening around the corner, I had time to see on the TV a magenta cell opening up. I passed this along, and said I was shutting down (already lost power once -- the backup power/surge protector did its job) with visions of another wall of water heading our way.
Silly me, it's been so long since I've worried about tornadoes that didn't occur to me.
It touched down in Georgetown -- no word on damage or injuries -- but I must say that I'm glad I haven't moved farther north -- a few years back there was a Cedar Park tornado that took the roof off an HEB -- about 45 minutes after I'd driven by the thing. Clearly, there is a line somewhere north of us that calls the weather. There's a tiny town near Elizabeth Moon's town that was wiped off the map by a suspected F5 tornado....
At any rate, the magenta dot shrank and vanished, the rain died down, W got home safely and went to class -- we went out later for dinner.
I shocked the pool big time -- more "tropical weather" heading our way.
EDIT: Tally lost in lightning strike -- garage door opener, hot tub control panel, and half a wall socket. (Go figure...) The garage door opener cannot be fixed until we move some stuff under it. The hot tub people are looking for an archaic board for us. And the plug? Well, I will get something to use to get the cd player hooked up from another source. And mention the socket when we finally move the A/C controls.
