Let me begin this section of the Great Memorial Weekend Storm Adventure by saying that, in perspective, what happened at our house in no way compares to the loss and devastation suffered by literally thousands of people in the Central Texas area this past weekend. Ours is but a blip on the scale.
If you draw a straight line northeastward from an area on the west side of north IH35, then across the highway at a U-Haul facility, then crossing over our house and proceeding to an apartment complex near Tech Ridge, on Sunday morning you would have found:
The weather service has confirmed that the damage at the U-Haul place was caused by a "small tornado." I'm not sure how they determine that, but the label is moot: at about 9:45pm everything went whoosh and the lights went out. It was raining so hard that we didn't even hear the winds that passed over - either in a straight line or spinning. And it was all over in a matter of minutes.
The good news? No damage to the house. More good news? The tree service will not have to charge me for putting up ladders and roping limbs down. Everything is right there on the ground.
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