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AHF, where are you at? My sister lives in Allen along the Allen/Plano line (Off McDermot) and her neighbor's chimney wound up in her front yard and she lost most all of the trees on her lot.
Where is Manny when you need him?
My entire neighborhood is a war zone. And the National Weather Service knuckleheads are saying it wasn't a tornado, just straight line winds.
Bull .
I'm no fujita scale guru, but if this isn't tornadic damage, they need a new scale...
Those were all within a block of my place (I had a couple of tree branches deposited on my balcony, but already chunked those into the dumpster).
And these were within a mile of me:
http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/586...orm2008_24.JPG
http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/0a1...42DSC_0625.jpg
http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/b7c...icture_130.jpg
http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/b7c...icture_129.jpg
http://www.neighborsgo.com/upimg/b7c...icture_131.jpg
Last edited by Aggie Hoopsfan; 04-10-2008 at 07:57 PM.
AHF, where are you at? My sister lives in Allen along the Allen/Plano line (Off McDermot) and her neighbor's chimney wound up in her front yard and she lost most all of the trees on her lot.
I'm about a block off the Dallas North Tollway, essentially at the intersection of it and Frankford Rd. Basically, the last street in Dallas just before you cross the county line from Dallas County into Collin County and Plano.
There is a clear path of damage from southwest of Addison Airport all the way to EDS Headquarters (about 4 miles NE of me) but like I said, NWS idiots are saying it was just wind, no tornado.
My card reader just crapped out on me, but the Pappadeaux sign across the Tollway from me got mangled and the shopping center around the corner was pretty messed up too (light poles snapped at their bases, trees uprooted, roof partially ripped off).
Crazy.
im in arlington and it WAS STORMING last night
Thats right where I live. It was effing brutal. I got pretty nervous there for a few minutes.
That looks like a tornado came through.
Just nervous?
It was right out of the Twister movie at my place...
* tornado sirens go off
* cable goes out while they're saying a tornado has been indicated on radar and is headed for the Addison Airport (mile SW of me)
* lights start flickering on and off, then go out. I was looking out the window and could see transformers popping off in the distance
(about this point I headed to the bathroom to duck and cover)
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* lightning like crazy, thundering like crazy, wind starts howling
* everything gets dead calm but the lightning is still lighting up my place
* wind starts howling again, loud roar for about two minutes, could hear pops and cracks (knew they were trees snapping)
* then it's just rain...
Came out in the morning to the above....
What convinced me was the 3rd and 4th pics above (that I linked, sorry too lazy to resize....). Those are those big hundred foot tall power transformers. They are built to withstand high winds, but were crumpled and twisted around themselves like someone came along and wadded them up like a paper ball.
The car being crumpled like something out of Transformers convinced me.
I don't know if it wasn't clear in the pics, but there is a chimney sitting besides the car. That's what crumped the car. A chimney got ripped off one of the buildings at our apartments (three story) and dropped on that car.
When I was driving to work I saw that the wind had picked up a full size trampoline that was anchored to the ground from someones back yard and tossed it into the street. Over a fence mind you.
Yeah I saw that, I thought at first it was one of those spackle job fake pillar things, but then I saw the stuff behind the spackle
Not sure how to phrase it, whatever you call right before scared due to a false sense of security from living in the city. Which is probably gone now...Just nervous?
Yeah, one of my coworkers snapped photos on the way in to work today and showed us. Two stuck out...
1. The EDS headquarters building had a bunch of its windows blown out on one side (the main building with the driveway under it - you probably know what I'm talking about if you've ever driven by there)
2. Might have been the same trampoline as yours, but it was a photo of a trampoline that was wrapped around a tree about 10 feet off the ground.
I hear ya, just giving you a hard time. As I mentioned, I got to experience all the classic 'tell tale signs' of a twister coming. When it went from ridiculously windy and noisy to super calm, all I could think was 'oh '...Not sure how to phrase it, whatever you call right before scared due to a false sense of security from living in the city. Which is probably gone now...
West side of Independence by McDermott?
Has to be the same one because that is exactly what it was.
Talk to a friend who lives in that exact area AHF and he told me the same exact thing about the Weathercasts calling the damage non-tornadic. AHF what category could this be classified as? My friend told me a category 4-5 would all be good guesses.
If all vegetation besides adult trees bending flat to the ground as its raining sideways from 60 tp 80mph winds isn't "tornadic" then what is?!
Except for the massive flooding it looked like watching footage from CNN during a hurricane in Florida.
Yeah it was somewhere off Independence. Sounds like the same trampoline
We looked this up at work today (quite a few of us live around the area as it is close to our office, and all had the same experiences with the wind and the sounds and the damage)...
http://www.tornadoproject.com/fscale/fscale.htm
Based on that sounds like an F0 or an F1.
BTW, found this photo cruising too. This is Addison Airport just SW of me. Hangar doors completely ripped off...
That was a tornado.
Either that or "tornado like winds"
Has to be.
Just like Wisteria Lane! Dang, glad you are alright
lol
AggieHoopsFan, you live like 100 yards away from me. Last night was a ing trip. I was reminded of the movie Twister too. The sirens were cool, and as I looked outside at the wind moving the trees and the debris, and the hail and rain, I was reminded of the episode of Beavis and Butthead where they are going to the MaxiMart before a huge storm and are wondering where the is everyone not even realizing a storm is coming.
lol
Did anyone see the crazy ass green lightning coming from the west before we got pounded with hail and the strong wind gusts? It looked like a strobe light of green lights moving all around....and it looked like the light was rotating, it had to be a twister.
They said wind gusts were up to 75 MPH....i had no idea it was that bad, or that any storm was coming. It was cool surveying all the damage while I was driving to work.
I was so ing sleepy I forgot about that...I had taken a leak and then the lights went out and it got really really quiet....then the crackling and train-whistle sounding wind came ripping into the apartment and it was like the windows were going to blow in.
The apartment directly below us had its living room window knocked in and had to throw out all their furniture and beds.....it was a close call.
Our Irving plant got knocked offline. I think they had some damage too, but I haven't heard how bad. We just received an extra load of potatos that was supposed to go there, but the driver said he couldn't get there because of "the tornado".
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