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Well, THAT was exciting...
Talk 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.
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Maybe you should set up the room/closet you'd retreat to in an emergency? (The master toilet/bathtub for me. I'd have to hope there wasn't a cat fight!)
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Bad noise, no cookie --
Put bottled water, a small radio and batteries on your grocery list, girl! We may be able to do a Pandemic pack slowly, but tornadoes are a fact of life here --
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And then it started raining on my way home. I wasn't too worried, because after all, it can be raining across the street from me and I'd still not get any rain. Only, the further north and west the bus was heading, the heavier the rain.
I'm sure you can see where this was going. I peeled off wet clothes when I got inside last night. The worst of the rain at my place ended around 8, but then I got to watch the lightening show for a while after.
I brought my damned umbrella with me today.
Yup --
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And last time a magenta cell went over our house we got 2 inches of hail and had to have our roof re-shingled. Fun.
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Magenta scary....