To all you Texans

[DILLIGAF]

Stay safe

365 Things Austin on Instagram: "🌪here is the @kxan_news coverage of the tornado that touched down in Round Rock this afternoon"

20K likes, 857 comments - 365thingsaustin on March 21, 2022: "🌪here is the @kxan_news coverage of the tornado that touched down in Round Rock this afternoon".

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[DILLIGAF]

Tornado Watch issued March 21 at 3:14PM CDT until March 21 at 10:00PM CDT by NWS Austin/San Antonio TX

Areas Affected: Bastrop, TX; Bexar, TX; Blanco, TX; Burnet, TX; Caldwell, TX; Comal, TX; DeWitt, TX; Fayette, TX; Gillespie, TX; Gonzales, TX; Guadalupe, TX; Hays, TX; Karnes, TX; Kendall, TX; Lavaca, TX; Lee, TX; Llano, TX; Travis, TX; Williamson, TX; Wilson, TX

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 54 INEFFECT UNTIL 10 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREASIN TEXAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 20 COUNTIESIN SOUTH CENTRAL TEXASBASTROP BEXAR BLANCOBURNET CALDWELL COMALDEWITT FAYETTE GILLESPIEGONZALES GUADALUPE HAYSKARNES KENDALL LAVACALEE LLANO TRAVISWILLIAMSON WILSONTHIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF AUSTIN, BASTROP, BLANCO, BOERNE,BURNET, CUERO, FLORESVILLE, FREDERICKSBURG, GEORGETOWN, GIDDINGS,GONZALES, HALLETTSVILLE, KARNES CITY, LA GRANGE, LLANO, LOCKHART,NEW BRAUNFELS, SAN ANTONIO, SAN MARCOS, AND SEGUIN.

 

[PDQH2O]

Thank you. North Texas was also subject to storms and tornado warnings. Even so, it is STILL well worth the move.

 

[81Sprint]

My Family is in La Grange, Hallettsville and Houston. I put in their surveillance camera systems been watching them today so far good but windy

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

It’s on its way to us in Alabama

 

[PDQH2O]

My Family is in La Grange, Hallettsville and Houston. I put in their surveillance camera systems been watching them today so far good but windy

Glad your peeps are all OK.

 

[81Sprint]

Glad your peeps are all OK.

Just talked to my dad in Houston said they are supposed to get it around 2 a.m.

 

[DILLIGAF]

Just be aware and batton down the hatches. My sister is in Boerne and a few friends got some damage in Fredericksburg.

Hope all of it passes tonight without any damage.

 

[Bpracing1127]

I’m in Russellville Arkansas and I drove through the worst rain I have ever seen. Couldn’t see 3 ft in front of you.

 

[PDQH2O]

Just talked to my dad in Houston said they are supposed to get it around 2 a.m.

Have a daughter just North of Houston. They were getting rain about an hour ago but nothing serious. Said nothing about the overnight weather. Looks like they be getting weather until tomorrow afternoon. ‘My Radar’ is one of the most accurate apps that I’ve seen.

 

[ChrisV]

Was windy like crazy all weekend at the race in Houston.

 

[81Sprint]

Scary Shit

 

[81Sprint]

I’m in Russellville Arkansas and I drove through the worst rain I have ever seen. Couldn’t see 3 ft in front of you.

Well Shit my son lives in Booneville Arkansas. Just looked and it's mostly just nasty rainstorms there also

 

[Mototrig]

A friend in Leander TX sent me this from the side of the road by his house. Scary shit

 

[Done-it-again]

Nothing for us in San Antonio just little rain in the am.... But a few hrs north in Round Rock got it....

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

It’s on its way to us in Alabama

Sorry to hear that!! For you and everyone else in it path...

But..

How weird is it for you, right now with the new move, you use "us" and "alabama" in the same sentence??

It is very inspiring for me because I've been telling my wife for years that "I think I want to look at Alabama" when we decided to move from oregon or when we retire.

So keep the good vibes and pics coming!!

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Sorry to hear that!! For you and everyone else in it pass...

But..

How weird is it for you, right now with the new move, you use "us" and "alabama" in the same sentence??

It is very inspiring for me because I've been telling my wife for years that "I think I want to look at Alabama" when we decided to move from oregon or when we retire.

So keep the good vibes and pics coming!!

Will do on the pics. Never want to see it happen here but we have a storm bunker under the house. Before they poured the concrete floors they poured a roughly 8 by 10 or so concrete room, 10” walls and ceiling and a steel door and steps down into it from the lower level of the house. It has ventilation up to the outside. Would hate to come out of it and find the house gone but at least we will be alive.

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Sorry to hear that!! For you and everyone else in it pass...

But..

How weird is it for you, right now with the new move, you use "us" and "alabama" in the same sentence??

It is very inspiring for me because I've been telling my wife for years that "I think I want to look at Alabama" when we decided to move from oregon or when we retire.

So keep the good vibes and pics coming!!

And it’s an amazing place, we still are struggling with how nice everyone is. Everyone we meet wants to hear our story on how we ended up here.

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

Will do on the pics. Never want to see it happen here but we have a storm bunker under the house. Before they poured the concrete floors they poured a roughly 8 by 10 or so concrete room, 10” walls and ceiling and a steel door and steps down into it from the lower level of the house. It has ventilation up to the outside. Would hate to come out of it and find the house gone but at least we will be alive.

A must back there for sure!!


Just make sure to have some ruby red slippers hanging on the wall in the storm cellar(kind of a joke cause all my family back east has a pair hanging in their cellars)

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

A must back there for sure!!


Just make sure to have some ruby red slippers hanging on the wall in the storm cellar(kind of a joke cause all my family back east has a pair hanging in their cellars)

I keep my guns in there as well, put a keypad door handle on it so it’s basically a huge safe. And with the guns I’m set for a zombie apocalypse as well.

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

And it’s an amazing place, we still are struggling with how nice everyone is. Everyone we meet wants to hear our story on how we ended up here.

Right!! "Why did that guy just flip me off? Ohh shit, that wasn't just the middle finger, that was the whole hand, did he just WAVE at me for no reason?" "Hmm.. that's gonna take some getting used to"

 

[TPC]

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

I keep my guns in there as well, put a keypad door handle on it so it’s basically a huge safe. And with the guns I’m set for a zombie apocalypse as well.

Just make sure to keep a dehumidifier of some sort with your guns down there or, LOTS of oil on them often. Jmo

 

[Bpracing1127]

I’m on tornado watch now in my hotel lol.

 

[just_floatin]

You mean this?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506105724929286152

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506087729297207296

 

[DILLIGAF]

You mean this?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506105724929286152

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1506087729297207296

Wow

 

[HBCraig]

It’s on its way to us in Alabama

I was involved in 3 tornados in Alabama

Scary shit

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Ryan Hall Y’all is the man. Great streams. Was watching him live today and there were a ton of tornadoes in TX.

 

[rrrr]

Wind over 60 MPH and 1½" of rain here. Tornado sirens were blaring but thankfully no twisters.

The folks in Round Rock took a bad one. I hop no one was hurt or killed.

 

[Ace in the Hole]

Will do on the pics. Never want to see it happen here but we have a storm bunker under the house. Before they poured the concrete floors they poured a roughly 8 by 10 or so concrete room, 10” walls and ceiling and a steel door and steps down into it from the lower level of the house. It has ventilation up to the outside. Would hate to come out of it and find the house gone but at least we will be alive.

Was texting with @DILLIGAF about this earlier. As a kid we went through a F3 that wrecked our house on one side, destroyed our neighbors house..killed some people and wrecked the town. I'm pretty sure I mentioned it on here in another thread but we went through it piled in the master bathtub.. We relocated a couple months later and my parents built a tornado shelter on that house..it was a walkout basement but they had a 12x12 concrete room with a concrete ceiling and a steel safe door that doubled as their master closet. Going through one of those events will change your perspective on storms.

Well Shit my son lives in Booneville Arkansas. Just looked and it's mostly just nasty rainstorms there also

This place (RDP) is too small..shooting you a PM.

 

[Shlbyntro]

It came through Austin in two waves last night at about 5 and then again around 9. we. It wasn't too bad here. There was some wind where I was at with some pea sized hail and a little over 2" of rain total.

 

[81Sprint]

Just talked to my Grandmother in La Grange, said there was 14 tornadoes in the towns surrounding them, but luckily no crazy weather at their place.

 

[pkbullet]

Came by our place on lake yesterday about 3:30. I haven’t figured how to transfer stored video from our camera system, but here is our current dock location. Next door neighbors dock looks upside down and two doors down is in middle of channel. Snapped six cables, four to shoreline and two sea anchors.

 

[Nordie]

This is why Tornadoes and Earthquakes are way scarier than a Hurricane, atleast with a Hurricane you have time to prepare or make some moves. Hope everyone is OK in Texas and surrounding areas.

 

[hawgty55]

Jacksboro is the next town west of ours. Where our property is. Closed the shop early and let the girls go home just in case.

 

[clarence]

It came through Austin in two waves last night at about 5 and then again around 9. we. It wasn't too bad here. There was some wind where I was at with some pea sized hail and a little over 2" of rain total.

Had some great lightning middle of the night.

 

[USMC2010]

I've been in hurricanes, typhoons and earthquakes and many, many tornadoes. Tornadoes are the only thing that spook me but I wasn't concerned about anything yesterday.

 

[havasujeeper]

I don't know. The hurricanes down at the gulf coast will give you one hell of a pucker factor when hit dead center.

(Katrina, 2005)

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Came by our place on lake yesterday about 3:30. I haven’t figured how to transfer stored video from our camera system, but here is our current dock location. Next door neighbors dock looks upside down and two doors down is in middle of channel. Snapped six cables, four to shoreline and two sea anchors. View attachment 1098622 View attachment 1098623 View attachment 1098624 View attachment 1098625

Were the docks aluminum or galvanized steel? We went with galvanized steel for this reason, quite a bit heavier and able to handle surfboat abuse better.

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

This is why Tornadoes and Earthquakes are way scarier than a Hurricane, atleast with a Hurricane you have time to prepare or make some moves. Hope everyone is OK in Texas and surrounding areas.

From what we have been told by neighbors you do get some warning from the sound, they said its unreal how loud it is, like a 747 at full throttle in your living room loud, no way you could sleep through it and all of the amber alert type of deals go off on your phone as well as the sirens.

 

[Ace in the Hole]

From what we have been told by neighbors you do get some warning from the sound, they said its unreal how loud it is, like a 747 at full throttle in your living room loud, no way you could sleep through it and all of the amber alert type of deals go off on your phone as well as the sirens.

The sky will change colors...to an almost green haze, after that It's not the sound....its the lack of sound. The wind stops/shifts, and things get eerily quiet before all hell breaks loose. Once that happens the roar is deafening...not something you want to experience.

If you get an alarm on your phone out there take it seriously and take shelter immediately, tornado's give no real warning..and if it decides to drop down on or in close proximity the warning system won't matter as it doesn't work fast enough.

 

[pronstar]

Thankfully tornadoes don’t like us folk in the South Dallas area…seems the worst storms/hail happen in North Dallas.

Was definitely a powerful storm that ripped thru last night.

Our power fluctuated for about an hour.
We didn’t lose power, but it seemed like the voltage was fluctuating as we had what seemed like intermittent brown-outs.

Some friends from church are going thru a tough time, and we gave them about half the food from our prepper pantry…was hoping we didn’t need to dip into it ourselves LOL

 

[pkbullet]

Were the docks aluminum or galvanized steel? We went with galvanized steel for this reason, quite a bit heavier and able to handle surfboat abuse better.

Ours is aluminum, but didn’t seem to matter what construction in the areas hit. Our cables breaking caused the majority of our damage. The patio furniture did fly through the upper deck railing though. I think having the second roof contributed to our issue. The video feed was wild, dock went west then east in a matter of seconds.

 

[pkbullet]

Not sure where next door neighbors dock is, I think it flipped and sunk it.

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Ours is aluminum, but didn’t seem to matter what construction in the areas hit. Our cables breaking caused the majority of our damage. The patio furniture did fly through the upper deck railing though. I think having the second roof contributed to our issue. The video feed was wild, dock went west then east in a matter of seconds.

Mind boggling that those cables can just snap. This raises a question, our dock is being built, is it insured on its own or part of the homeowners policy?

 

[pkbullet]

Mind boggling that those cables can just snap. This raises a question, our dock is being built, is it insured on its own or part of the homeowners policy?

Ours is part of the policy, but listed as a seperate structure like the toy barn.

 

[pkbullet]

Mind boggling that those cables can just snap. This raises a question, our dock is being built, is it insured on its own or part of the homeowners policy?

One is actually still attached to a several ton rock that it dragged. Four others snapped and one ripped the sea anchor crank off the side of dock.

 

[havasujeeper]

What lake is that?

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

Ours is part of the policy, but listed as a seperate structure like the toy barn.

I checked, same deal since its attached to the property that is insured, good luck on fixing things up.

 

[Orange Juice]

Our family lake house dock in the Midwest, was destroyed every few years, along with the boat and hoists.

Twice. it was caused from boaters trying to get off the lake, and decided to tie up to our dock or a neighbors. With 3-4’ rollers, and 7 miles of open water, they pull out the dock posts, and then the pile of boats and dock debris steam roller the entire beach.

We mark all our dock wood with paint, and then spend a week picking through the piles, salvaging the wood 2x12x16 planks.

Insurance would handle the boats, but not the docks.