<p>A local reporter just called into the TV station saying she’s looking at a house which has the roof of another house from down the street sitting on top of it. Wow. Tornado damage is often kind of crazy.</p>
<p>Keep us posted. Hope everyone is safe.</p>
<p>Watching the news. Tornadoes continue to form east of Dallas, a few of them causing some significant damage. I don’t think this outbreak will set any records, though that is of little consolation to those who have lost their homes. But the important thing is that we have yet to hear of any deaths.</p>
<p>The news said the trailers which were tossed around like childrens’ toys weigh roughly 7 tons!</p>
<p>Heard from my cousin who lives in Grand Prairie, but her daughter and grandson work, I think, in Arlington. Both of their cars sustained severe damage, but I’m not quite sure what from yet. House in Grand Prairie is OK. Am waiting to hear from cousin’s daughter via Facebook hopefully.</p>
<p>They are reporting that at least 12 tornadoes touched down in the DFW area. The great thing about cell phones is that people take amazing photos of these tornadoes and can send them in to the news stations. I saw photos of tornadoes in several area towns around Dallas. It seemed my area was surrounded by them, but we actually just got a little bit of rain in my immediate neighborhood.</p>
<p>Glad you are okay, Nrdsb4. Praying that everyone made it through safely there in the DFW area.</p>
<p>We had a bad tornado in my area a couple weeks ago, and I found it strikingly odd that the man on the weather channel was continuously encouraging people to submit photos of the tornado, as that was the best way possible to keep them informed so they could keep people safe. I seem to remember a time where they encouraged people to take cover instead of going outside to take pictures…</p>
<p>^^^^^One of the tornadoes which hit east of Dallas was apparently a rain wrapped one. The weather anchor at our local ABC affiliate made it clear that it would be very unsafe to try to take a picture as you wouldn’t know it was approaching. </p>
<p>I like my ABC guy…he really stresses safety. He was even worrying on camera about his wife as one tornado was heading toward his own neighborhood.</p>
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<p>Thank you. 
For all the destruction we are seeing/hearing about, it’s amazing that we haven’t heard of any casualties yet. In one town to our east, there were houses completely leveled. I guess no one was home; otherwise, I don’t see how the residents could have escaped without serious injury.</p>
<p>Friends in Carrollton-Farmer’s Branch are OK, thank Goodness.</p>
<p>My best wishes and prayers to all those experiencing the horrors of the tornadoes in the DFW area.</p>
<p>Tornado winds can be insane. Does anybody else remember the old World Book encyclopedia picture showing a chicken crammed into a Coke bottle by a tornado? Guess it made an impression on me as a child and I’ve never forgotten it. I seem to also remember a picture of a single straw driven into a brick…</p>
<p>Thirty-eight years ago today, a horrible tornado roared through Kentucky killing 77 people. In the town in which I lived for several years (Brandenburg, KY), 28 people were killed. It was a small, rural area and the high school gym was used as a morgue. Cows were wrapped around telephone poles, homes were demolished and entire families were lost. More than 300 people were killed that day over several states. I will never forget that day.</p>
<p>-Most people who die in tornadoes are killed by flying debris. I recently heard that most people who died in last year’s tornado season died from head injuries. I have friends in OK who used to keep motorcycle helmets and a NOAA radio nearby so as not to be surprised in the middle of the night. They also kept their shoes nearby in case they had to evacuate after a tornado so they wouldn’t step on broken glass, downed wires, etc. Then they moved to a new house with a storm shelter.
-Driving in a really bad thunderstorm can be dangerous, even without tornadoes. i’ve seen too many news reports of people killed when trees fell on their cars or debris impaled them after crashing through the windshield.
-If you ever have to pull off the road and lie in a ditch, get as far away as possible from the car as you don’t want it blow on top of you.
-There were several reports in last year’s tormadoes of cars that literally got toen apart as their drivers got caught on the road during tornadoes.
-In places like OK, where the weather prediction is very good, you usually will be able to hear about the storms as they develop throughout the day. If you haven’t been keeping track, you have about 12 minutes to take shelter once you hear the sirens.</p>
<p>After all that, though, it would be relatively rare to actually encounter a tornado while traveling.</p>
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<p>No, I never saw that. Crazy, though. I don’t remember where this tornado was, but the story was of a family in a trailer house. They had a baby and put her in her car seat and held on tight. The tornado hit their trailer. The parents basically came to, and couldn’t find the baby. Only the empty car seat remained. They ran around the grounds, freaking out and looking for the child. After a while they found her, hundreds of yards from the house, inside a drawer in a random dresser!</p>
<p>Tornado stories are really amazing.</p>
<p>The news in Dallas is just full of nonstop coverage. They just showed the interior of a two story house, one of those with the two story entry foyer. At the top of the foyer, impaled in the dry wall, are three or four raw beams-I don’t know if they are telephone poll remnants, or house beams, or what, but they don’t belong to the house, yet are in the house. That’s probably how most people are killed…if you are in the path of a beam traveling at high speeds, well, that’s the proverbial number being called.</p>
<p>My sister stuck in Dallas. Now her flight this morning has been cancelled. Much be chaos in the airport</p>
<p>We liVe in NJ and my daugHter as an irrational fear of botH tornados and tHunderstorms . We Had a Couple of intense storms tHat set tHe fear in stone for Her</p>
<p>Last summer wHen HurriCane Irene blew tHru. We Had tHe loCal news on wHiCH was reporting tornados in tHe area . It was kind of sCary sinCe it was at nigHte
We HaVe no basement , so we ended up staying in our garage apt for tHe nigHt , tHougH none of us got muCH sleep…tHe only aCtual tornado was in Lewes , De. I Can’t imagine liVing in an area tHat is more prone to suCH storms</p>
<p>( sorry for tHe random , distraCting Caps…my keyboard is malfunCtioning )</p>
<p>^ I think I have an irrational fear of keyboards that seem to have minds of their own ;)</p>
<p>Weather officials are warning that tomorrow could be a day of horrific tornadoes. There is a “high risk” of violent tornadoes tomorrow in Oklahoma north to Kansas and Nebraska.</p>
<p>I hope they are wrong, but if not, crossing fingers for people in those states to keep your eyes and ears open and have a safe haven available if necessary.</p>
<p>Hopefully they’re listening to this warning. We’re lucky (?) with tornadoes that we have a pretty good warning system. </p>
<p>Good luck to them.</p>
<p>The tor:con index is an 8 (highest warning possible) today for parts of Kansas.</p>
<p>I hope they are wrong. The good thing is that people in Kansas are well aware of how to prepare for and react to tornadoes. Hope everyone stays safe.</p>
<p>I saw video of a tornado which hit on the fringes of the University Oklahoma in Norman yesterday. I haven’t heard of any injuries.</p>