Someone pissed GOD off! As the neighbors said “Welcome to Springtime in Dallas”.
We are staying for a couple of days near Denton, TX where they had a storm (click on this link!) that I hope we never experience again! It was like being bombed for about 10 minutes straight after watching the weather for about an hour before. It all started when my phone gave us a weather alert to take shelter NOW!
We are staying with Leslie & Jeff, Nick’s parents (Nick is Amy’s fiancee) in their driveway and having a lovely time. We arrived on Wednesday night and enjoyed cocktails by the pool.
Enjoying life
Thursday, everyone went to work and I took a nice walk around their neighborhood before lunching with a friend from Preschool days, Becky. It is so nice being able to connect with people while we are on the road although it makes me homesick sometimes. Becky and I had a nice lunch and then she headed back home, actually to look at homes as they have just sold their home near Dallas and will be moving soon.
Paul arrived home about 4 and the weather was perfect, we sat out and enjoyed Jeff & Leslie’s yard although the sky had started churning but it was just a low rumble and not very often. Leslie & Jeff arrived home about 5:15 and while we were talking and showing off our new home on wheels my phone starts blaring! The message was “severe weather, take shelter now!” OK, It didn’t look like bad weather but the neighbors opened their new shelter and Leslie & I went inside to turn on the TV. A crazy phenomenon – perfectly nice weather, no rain, no wind but you have to take shelter and watch the TV. The storm was about 10 miles from us and heading east about 15 miles per hour and the projection was to be about 2 miles north of us! Great, it will get windy but we will miss the brunt.
We wait and after about 20 minutes we get a tiny bit of hail and a little wind, nothing big. The sky clears up some although the TV was saying there is another storm coming at 25 miles per hour but same route and not as crazy! So we take our wine and snacks out on the patio and are having a perfectly nice conversation and all of a sudden the sky turns dark and the hail starts! Leslie and I run for the house but the guys hang out, it didn’t look bad.
Paul got Hail Storm Video and you can hear how loud it was. He shut off the video just as it was really kicking in but you get the idea.
The pool is boiling
They are getting bigger
By now, the guys are stuck in the breeze way and we are retreating from the windows!
My poor perfect, new home!
Most of the car has these little divets!
I call it my shiny red golf ball!
Well – It Was!!! The car got the most damage! The only place we can see there are no dents is the driver side doors! Not sure what we will do about that. It was so loud and almost white. The hail was coming in sheets. It looked like they were golfball size but when they hit the windows of the house I was sure one was going to shatter!
Glad we got that experience behind us! We are off to Oklahoma today. Hopefully we can avoid anymore events.