Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Storm impact

I am happy to report we were not personally impacted by yesterday's storms. Jared and Amanda spend about two hours in "tornado safe" places in their respective schools. I spent about an hour in the underground parking garage at work. Kristin stayed home, ready to flee to the downstairs bathroom if needed. While in the parking garage, I went to my car and turned on the radio. The reports were crazy. There were wave after wave of storm cells passing through the D/FW metroplex. The cells all had the potential to carry hail or kick off tornados. To closest the hail came to our home was within about 3 miles. The tornados were mostly south of Grapevine. Kristin said there were powerful thunderstorms that went over our home. I don't know if any of you have experienced buckets of rain coming down all at once, but it is pretty amazing when it happens. The lightening and thunder yesterday put on quite a show. Today, we are having gorgeous weather. Spring weather in Texas can be quite volatile. Thanks for the phone calls and overall concern. We made it through another violent storm system unscathed!! Now if our beloved Mavs can whether the storm until the playoffs, we'll be happy!

1 comment:

Alison said...

Glad to hear that you weren't impacted too much. I worried when I turned on the news and saw this huge red blob over Grapevine. Come to find out later, it just meant that area had a tornado warning, not an actual tornado.