I’m okay!
As of 7:15AM, there are reports of major damage in Plano, Allen, and McKinney as well damage in Irving and Addison. This is nuts to me because I’m a few miles from them all!
At 2AM, I checked the weather when I noticed a tweet from Brownwood mention tornado weather. The storms seemed far away enough that it wouldn’t hit Dallas. I WAS WRONG, WONK WONK.
At 4AM, I decided to hit the hay and just when I did, the storm came. The winds were nuts and I nervously sat next to my bedroom window, wondering if the tree next to it was going to barge in. Before I could think about checking the weather online again, the power was out. A few minutes later, I get a text from a friend in Grapevine wondering if I was OK. The storm woke her up and TV said I was in trouble! But the storm quickly came and went. It probably lasted fifteen minutes max although the rain lingered.
I just checked outside and there are no damages I noted in my apartment complex. Aside from having no power for over an hour, my little spot in the world was just fine throughout the craziest storms to hit DFW this year.
Hope everyone else is OK!
EDIT: Here are some pics I took the next day.
Oh snap! goes the branches. My apartment building is not seen here, but very close to the right.
An uprooted tree! AND! My bedroom window a few yards to the right!
By Shannon McCuaig, April 10, 2008 @ 6:38 am
I’m so glad you’re okay! And by the way, these anti-spam words I’m required to type in are hilarious!
By Kelly Lawson, April 10, 2008 @ 7:46 am
So glad you’re okay! What a frightening night!
By neener, April 12, 2008 @ 4:42 am
Yeah Kelly, doesn’t your family still live ’round there parts?!
And to all that have noticed - yes, I have a Wordpress plug-in that lets me pick what anti-spam words are in the rotation. None of that random crazy letters stuff!