(03-22-2022, 10:53 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(03-22-2022, 07:46 AM)RicoTx Wrote: Had a small one less than ten miles west of us.  Fortunately it didn't last long.  The storm front was really crazy looking.  I've never seen clouds moving so fast.  All of the heavy rain blew through in about 15 minutes then it was bright and sunny out.

Thankful you were spared! Back in 1996ish I was in a convenience store just off I-10 on Stockton St when a tornado passed right in front of it. It sheared off the canopy over the gas pumps and did some damage to that whole area. I lived just a block or two away and a tree branch fell on the roof of the house I was living in. Trees in yards and blocking streets, loss of power, damaged property. It sucked. 

We never even knew it was coming. All of a sudden the sky looked weird, the air felt really strange and the sound was deafening. We thought the poop had hit the fan. All these years later I can remember the sound and when I looked out the window what I saw didn't make sense.

I remember that tornado! It snapped all the pine trees in Riverside park in half and took out a tree in my back yard. Fortunately it didn’t cause any damage to my house. I didn’t even realize it was a tornado at the time, I just thought it was a bad storm and my dumb self was outside trying to get my dogs inside and safe while the damn thing was blowing by!

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(03-22-2022, 11:16 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(03-22-2022, 10:53 AM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Thankful you were spared! Back in 1996ish I was in a convenience store just off I-10 on Stockton St when a tornado passed right in front of it. It sheared off the canopy over the gas pumps and did some damage to that whole area. I lived just a block or two away and a tree branch fell on the roof of the house I was living in. Trees in yards and blocking streets, loss of power, damaged property. It sucked. 

We never even knew it was coming. All of a sudden the sky looked weird, the air felt really strange and the sound was deafening. We thought the poop had hit the fan. All these years later I can remember the sound and when I looked out the window what I saw didn't make sense.

I-10 and Stockton must have been an interesting place back in the 90s.

Yes, it really was!

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