Hi All,
I'm watching the radar, and there's an intense rotation headed straight for us, about five or six miles away, at the moment. The cloud behind it is also headed straight for us, with two inch hail, and it's growing in size and intensity, so I may be "off the air" for a while, if it hits us. The board should continue to function okay, hopefully. The storm is passing the ISP where the server is located, right about now.
Love,
Tex
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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Update:
The last radar update took out the rotation, (thank goodness), but it's now showing hail up to 2.75 inches in diameter - that's bad news. Still headed straight for us, and still intensifying. This is one of those "super cells" that sucks the surrounding clouds and energy into it. It still has a few miles to go before it reaches us, so maybe it will use up most of it's energy before it gets here.
Love,
Tex
The last radar update took out the rotation, (thank goodness), but it's now showing hail up to 2.75 inches in diameter - that's bad news. Still headed straight for us, and still intensifying. This is one of those "super cells" that sucks the surrounding clouds and energy into it. It still has a few miles to go before it reaches us, so maybe it will use up most of it's energy before it gets here.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Ahhhhh. The hail has lost an inch of diameter, and the storm coverage seems to be getting smaller. We may luck out yet.
Love,
Tex
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
The hail is back up to two and and a half inches again, and the edge of the storm is here - so far just rain. We'll see what happens, pretty soon, I suppose.
Love,
Tex
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Hi Oma,
I'm back, and it looks like we made it. The storm appears to be pretty much done with, and I don't think we had any serious damage. The wind was pretty high, and it hailed off and on for a long time, (close to a half hour), but it wasn't continuous, and it never got really heavy, and the largest hailstones appeared to be only about one and a quarter inches in diameter. Most of the time it was just heavy rain and wind. I'm sure it damaged the wheat and corn somewhat, but at least we didn't get wiped out. I'm very thankful for that.
The strange thing is that there wasn't any severe weather predicted, just possible scattered thunderstorms, and there were absolutely no tornado watches issued, so the national weather service kind of had egg on it's face when it had to issue the tornado warning. LOL.
I'm gonna go check the rain gage, and see if we had any damage anywhere else.
Love,
Tex
I'm back, and it looks like we made it. The storm appears to be pretty much done with, and I don't think we had any serious damage. The wind was pretty high, and it hailed off and on for a long time, (close to a half hour), but it wasn't continuous, and it never got really heavy, and the largest hailstones appeared to be only about one and a quarter inches in diameter. Most of the time it was just heavy rain and wind. I'm sure it damaged the wheat and corn somewhat, but at least we didn't get wiped out. I'm very thankful for that.
The strange thing is that there wasn't any severe weather predicted, just possible scattered thunderstorms, and there were absolutely no tornado watches issued, so the national weather service kind of had egg on it's face when it had to issue the tornado warning. LOL.
I'm gonna go check the rain gage, and see if we had any damage anywhere else.
Love,
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
DANG!!!!!!!!
This was like watching the weather channel, when they
put their people in different states when they are preparing for severe weather.
I don't think that I took a breath while reading down the posts!!
WHEW!!!!!!
Happy to know that you are safe!!!
Love
Dee~~~~
This was like watching the weather channel, when they
put their people in different states when they are preparing for severe weather.
I don't think that I took a breath while reading down the posts!!
WHEW!!!!!!
Happy to know that you are safe!!!
Love
Dee~~~~
"What the heart gives away is never gone ... It is kept in the hearts of others."
Thanks everyone,
I think we were lucky, because we got off pretty light, as far as I can tell. The crops are a little stripped up by the hail, and they're leaning from the wind, a lot of things not fastened down were blown around, (or away), and there's a fair amount of tree limb damage, but all in all, nothing really serious happened right around here.
Warnings about big hail always makes me nervous, though, because the bigger tornadoes are almost always accompanied by big hail.
Sorry I couldn't continue my play-by-play coverage. LOL. The power was knocked out for a while.
Love,
Tex
I think we were lucky, because we got off pretty light, as far as I can tell. The crops are a little stripped up by the hail, and they're leaning from the wind, a lot of things not fastened down were blown around, (or away), and there's a fair amount of tree limb damage, but all in all, nothing really serious happened right around here.
Warnings about big hail always makes me nervous, though, because the bigger tornadoes are almost always accompanied by big hail.
Sorry I couldn't continue my play-by-play coverage. LOL. The power was knocked out for a while.
Love,
Tex
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Fear of hail? You better believe it.
Twice in the years I have lived in Denver I have had to deal with the damage done by hail that was 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Actually more like hockey pucks that size.
Pulverized the roof on both my shop and house down to the bare wood. Water draining into the house. The shop has a flat roof and was even worse with water coming down over all my tools and finished and unfinished work.
All the glass in the windows across the front of the shop were broken out. Even the ones that still had storm windows that I made with double strength glass.
All the North windows on the house were broken including the basement windows that are in window wells.
As the windows broke hail came through and was skidding across the floor all the way across the house and slamming in to the south wall inside the house.
All of the metal venting on the roof was unrecognizable and the furnace and water heater were red tagged until I could replace the vents .
The gutters that were not torn from the house were punctured through by the hail.
This time of year I go over my hail kit. Enough plastic to cover both the shop and house to prevent any further damage after the storm. Plywood covers for windows if I can catch the coming storm before it hits.
Along with Wayne and others that live in hail country I have gained a healthy respect for its destructive power.
In the same breath I can say that is one of the most awesome acts of nature that I have ever seen.
Matthew
Twice in the years I have lived in Denver I have had to deal with the damage done by hail that was 3 to 4 inches in diameter. Actually more like hockey pucks that size.
Pulverized the roof on both my shop and house down to the bare wood. Water draining into the house. The shop has a flat roof and was even worse with water coming down over all my tools and finished and unfinished work.
All the glass in the windows across the front of the shop were broken out. Even the ones that still had storm windows that I made with double strength glass.
All the North windows on the house were broken including the basement windows that are in window wells.
As the windows broke hail came through and was skidding across the floor all the way across the house and slamming in to the south wall inside the house.
All of the metal venting on the roof was unrecognizable and the furnace and water heater were red tagged until I could replace the vents .
The gutters that were not torn from the house were punctured through by the hail.
This time of year I go over my hail kit. Enough plastic to cover both the shop and house to prevent any further damage after the storm. Plywood covers for windows if I can catch the coming storm before it hits.
Along with Wayne and others that live in hail country I have gained a healthy respect for its destructive power.
In the same breath I can say that is one of the most awesome acts of nature that I have ever seen.
Matthew
WOW!! I just tuned in to your weather report here....quite a display, Tex....your play by play was fascinating reading....we had bad winds and hail here too but nothing like that!! Glad everything is OK!!!
and Matthew...that report has to take the cake....I can't imagine that kind of hail storm...no wonder you fear hail!!!
and Matthew...that report has to take the cake....I can't imagine that kind of hail storm...no wonder you fear hail!!!
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