Yesterday around 8:20 pm we got a tornado warning. Meaning a tornado has been sighted. I won’t lie, it got pretty ugly. Hail the size of small apples hitting the house sideways. Oaks bending near horizontal. The storm roared there for a bit. The power cut off, and the house went pitch black.
But the storm passed, the power came back on, and this morning we went outside to assess the damage. We caught the very edge of the twister and were very lucky. About 300 yards from us, there are some very large downed trees, and our neighbor, who went out to check on his rental property this morning, says there is substantial damage at the outlet mall a couple of miles from us and the Stagecoach street has the tornado trail, a strip of ground where everything basically been pulverized.
So we are grateful to have come through. The metal roof came in handy.
Here is the gallery of the aftermath.
The second sample Unwelcome Mat has survived somehow.
It is a Texan tradition to grab the hail and take pictures, but the storm sounded like someone was shooting at the door. I checked through the small barred window in our door, and it looked like someone dumped several ice trays worth of ice on the front steps. So I didn’t risk life and limb take the pictures. I also didn’t go outside to see where the tornado was, heh. I took shelter instead.
Here is one I found after the storm had passed. I think it was mostly melted.
If you want to see pictures of some epic hail, here is a news article with a gallery from CBS Austin.
Here we go, we are okay, pets are okay, even my little bonsai trees are okay. We brought them in just as the storm started.
Glad to read you’re all right, and relatively unscathed.
Glad you’re okay. With any hailstones that size, there could have been substantially more damage. Happy you escaped it.
(spoken from years of experience in Kansas and the Texas Panhandle)
thank goodness you are all ok
Glad you’re safe! So many tornados this spring. Take care!
I’m very glad to hear you survived unscathed.
Well, that’s a much more ‘exciting’ start to the weekend than I am sure you wanted or needed! 😳 I’m so glad to hear everyone at HA is fine and that it seems like your damage wasn’t too bad. Here’s wishing you calm, nice weather for the rest of the weekend!💕💕💕
So glad you all are okay!
Glad all the residents of House Andrews are okay. Material things can be replaced. People and furbabies can’t.
So glad you made it through with minimal damage. Hope you all are well.
Glad you all made it through alright. My friend in Wimberley and her neighbors around Mt Baldy all got roof damage (shingles) and downed limbs. I am up by Hamilton Pool Park, and just enjoyed a good thunderstorm. Shows how targeted weather can be. (Who pissed off who? 😉)
Glad you are all right and the damage isn’t too bad.
The mess outside can be cleaned up. Thank Goodness you are all okay.
Yikes, thanks for letting us know that you’re okay!
So glad you and your family are OK. Tornadoes are the worst! Hail that big is scary. We always had hail in summer storms in MA when I was a kid but it was an inch at the largest. Those pictures of the baseball size hail are wild!
I’m so glad you made it through!
So happy you were spared too much damage. That hail is huge!
Pardon the dual post. I got weird message the first time.
Wow, so glad you, your pets (& your bonsai trees) are ok! Tornadoes sure are scary, I know that from personal experience. I love getting your emails, & look forward to them each week. Take care, and hope the clean up is not too expensive.
I’m glad the tornado mostly missed you. I do hope the cleanup goes well.
How is the recovery from the gall bladder surgery going?
Your property looks beautiful, even with the leaves all over. I’m so glad none of you or the critters were hurt.
Did you get to see any of the aurora Friday night? I saw beautiful sky pictures from some folks in Houston, so I’m thinking perhaps y’all got to see them, too.
Nature’s make-up gift for the tantrum she threw the night before? 🙂
I’m in Virginia, but we couldn’t see anything through the rainclouds, dangit.
glad you ducked it! there is a you tube channel called Ryan Hall Y’all. he does weekly videos and he gives a lot of warning about possible storms in the future. on days when there is real threats of major storm activity he streams live, he and another meteorologist monitor weather radar and they often spot tornadoes before national weather does. they also have storm chasers working with them, it is really professional.
he is dead serious with this, it isn’t thrill seeking and I highly recommend following him. Put it this way he is light years better than the weather channel or local news and the last couple of weeks was on multiple days until the wee hours trying to keep people safe.
again glad you dodged it. We had a tornado threat a couple of years ago which is rare in NJ, it was scary as heck to see this line of red moving across the map to us.
So glad you are ok. I have a brother-in-law in Michigan who had the same happen earlier last week – he has pics of a tornado just a couple of blocks away. So scary.
glad to hear you all are alright
So glad all is okay – thanks for sharing! Hope the damage is easy to repair.
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I’m super glad you’re all ok. We got massive hail here in Alabama too, and I got my dogs inside the house literally just in time.
Also, I’m curious on Ilona’s take on this video from a YouTuber making food from countries that no longer exist.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qm00h-6pVJM?si=fhotgEjBBkU-cR52
Wow, that was some gigantic hail! Happy to hear everyone and home survived.
So glad to hear you were ok.
So sad to hear it hit your area. For us Europeans tornados are such a uncommon nature phenomenon. During my stay in Ohio I learned about them but luckily never had to experience one.
Stay safe and hopefully no more come your way.
Such a relief that you and yours are all okay
Glad you’re all safe.
Glad you are okay.
I am so grateful that you and yours all came through the storm okay!
Glad you are well! No fun for sure.
I love that the unwelcome mat has a pet kolovershi feeder next to it!
I live in Tornado alley. Do I understand to well! Glad your safe
I’m glad to hear that you’ve come through this mostly unscathed. I must admit to being curious about the roof though.Did the apple-sized hail dent it up very badly?
It’ll be interesting to see what the inspection on your roof and windows say. We got a new roof and front windows replaced, after our last BIG storm.