Tornado

[alamo5000]

We had a tornado hit us last night. Here are some of the pics I snapped.

In the first two pictures a pine tree was completely uprooted. The trunk of the tree is about 12 to 15 foot around at it's base. Obviously the root ball is much larger. It blew down at the local Methodist Church.





This guy got his car port smashed in. The funny thing is a tree smashed it but when he came out to inspect the tree that did the smashing was already gone.




This tree that was snapped in two was another big one. The stump is about six feet tall.




This sign was blown over sheerly by the wind. The rain and flood waters were rushing down hill, but this sign post got bent over up hill in the opposite direction of the water.



My back yard shooting lane is pretty covered up. The tops of huge pine trees and oak trees that were blown over are all scattered along the way. This shot is taken about from my normal shooting position. I have a lane that goes out to 200 yards. Those tree tops in the background are at about the 50 yard mark. Right at the 100 yard mark there are some big fallen trees and broken off tree tops that were thrown around by the wind.

[GOST]

Glad you weren't hurt brother. Hope your neighbors were safe also.

[alamo5000]

Glad you weren't hurt brother. Hope your neighbors were safe also.

Yes sir. Thank you.

That sucker was LOUD. It woke me up about 4am.

When dawn arrived the yard looked like a small war zone LOL

No injuries anywhere to be reported anywhere. The whole area had a bunch of tornadoes apparently.

As soon as it dries out some I get to play with the chainsaw some more

[GOST]

Thank the good Lord no one was hurt.

[Dstrbdmedic167]

Glad to hear everyone is well and was safe. Good luck on the cleanup.

[alamo5000]

Thank the good Lord no one was hurt.

Yes sir! There are still lots of folks with no electricity. Lots of property damage and downed trees but nothing else thank goodness. The roof got ripped off of one of our barns.

It was definitely a close call, but hey, roofs and car ports can be replaced...

[Aragorn]

You must not be too far from me. Was dodging that same storm up here in Denton. My dumb ass about got struck by lightning watching the storm.

Glad all is well.

[alamo5000]

Glad to hear everyone is well and was safe. Good luck on the cleanup.

Thank you. We have to give it a while before we can really get at the clean up. The mud is so thick you just sink down over your shoes. We will pull those trees with a tractor but it needs to dry out some first. Our place should be relatively easy to clean up once it dries out some.

BTW We are expecting more extreme weather tonight and over the next couple days.

[jonpac07]

Alamo where is this at? We had some east of us

[alamo5000]

You must not be too far from me. Was dodging that same storm up here in Denton. My dumb ass about got struck by lightning watching the storm.

Glad all is well.

You're about 3 hours north from me. I heard yall got it pretty bad up there.

[alamo5000]

Alamo where is this at? We had some east of us

I am in between Dallas and Houston. About 2 or 3 hours south south east from DFW.

[jonpac07]

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[jonpac07]

You must not be too far from me. Was dodging that same storm up here in Denton. My dumb ass about got struck by lightning watching the storm.

Glad all is well.

We go to church in Denton, I'm 40 min south and we got the tail end of it.

[jonpac07]

Gotcha good to know, I'm in Fort Worth

I am in between Dallas and Houston. About 2 or 3 hours south south east from DFW.

[Thompson]

Ouch. Glad to hear that you're okay. Insurance must be a bitch to handle.

Guessing it was like an F1, F2 tornado?