Just caught the six o'clock news and heard about the bad weather down there. Everyone alright? Prayers and positive thoughts being sent.

The weather is headed our way...just a lot of high wind right now....at my house. There was lots of lightening about an hour ago. But, the bad stuff that has been forecasted hasn't hit yet. I am about two hours from Houston and the news said that there were two tornados that touched down there. Hadn't heard if anyone got hurt or not. So, far...we are ok. Thanks for the prayers and thoughts.

Saphy

Yuck..........


Have had 18+,- inches of rain in the last 24 hours. Things are a tad damp around here. I live in North East Houston right where the brunt of the rain fell. Most of the tornados and funnel clouds were in west and southwest Houston. Had plenty of wind damage around town and many street closings. Not to sound calloused but this kind of deluge is par for the course around here. I don't know of any injuries, but will watch the news here in a bit and see.

Thanks from the wet-set for your thoughts and prayers!

It's been a little windy the last couple hours here, not much rain yet.

About 6 18-wheelers were overturned at the trinity bridge by a tornado (between here and houston) earlier this evening - can you imagine driving behind that?

and news said that no one was injured....wow

Just heard that 16 people were hurt in an office park that had its roof relocated by a tornado. No one was seriously hurt tho.

A brick church was turned completely to rubble and the church school less than 20 feet away was untouched. It had more than one hundred young children in it at the time thanks Lord!

Thank you Jesus! /

Thanks for the updat3es y'all and I'm praying nothing has changed for the worse since you posted. That's wonderful about the Church School! Thank you Jesus!

wow...I didn't even know about the weather conditions in Texas until now . I'll definitely be keeping ya'll in my prayers. Praise God that the church school was kept safe. I'll also be praying for the 16 that got hurt. God bless ya'll!

Tivian

A tornado touched down in my neighborhood last night uprooting some trees and stuff, I don't think anyone was injured /

Is it really scary being near a tornado cos we dont get them here in England

Again I don't want to sound jaded or calloused. I have grown up with them as a reality for my entire life, so I have a bit of a different scope than some folks. Here in the Texas gulf coast there are more tornados and tornadic thunderstorms every year than anywhere else in the world.

There is a swath through the central United States that is aptly named "tornado ally" it terminates here in coastal east Texas. Now we rarely see the size tornado that you see in movies and such, but we darn sure have more of them yearly. The really big storms come accross the north Texas prarries and up through Oklahoma and Kansas. That is generally where the "F" 4 and 5 tornados form. The "F" is the Fujita scale.

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And to come the long way around to answering your question that being near one is scary. Yeah it is. I have been within "yards/meters" of two now in my life. Pretty creepy for sure.

I was messing around in the street as a teen during Hurricaine Alicia and one blew down my street. I hauled my backside into the house in a hurry when I heard the roaring sound. In the morning it looked like a scythe had neatly removed the treetops at about 30 feet from the ground. Then in the late 90's I was driving to work in another bad storm and the rain was so bad that I had to drive about 5mph. I barely missed a tree branch that landed right in front of my van (about as big around as my leg and about 10-15 feet long) On the way home the next morning I saw that it had relocated several trees and a roof and a 18 wheeler-trailer.

It is stuff like that, which gives me so much confidence in God! It is cool to know you are loved!

Hey Tivian...
From my stand point (growing up in Southwest Louisiana...) I was taught very young to fear the bad weather. My grandma raised me and she lived through (I am guessing) the worst hurricane in Louisiana history (Hurricane Audrey). There are actually residents burried in mass graves in Cameron (two people were her personal friends). So, anytime a storm started brewing in the Gulf of Mexico....she basically started packing. We never hesitated to evacuate. Never.

As for tornados...never seen one or been close to one. We have experienced "straight winds"...which literally picked our trampoline up and carried it across the yard to land in some trees. But I can say that I hope for as long as I live to never see one up close and personal.

I am not afraid of hardly anything. Literally. But bad weather scares the mess outta me. You can back track through the shout box...to see where Steve and Allen did an excellent job of calming me down. lol..(thank God for friends that care!) Admittedly, I was a basket case. But, there was a tornado that the news reported (travelling at 25 mph) in Jasper Co. I live less than 10 miles from Jasper County. (now, in hindsight...that storm could of been on the other side of the county) but it was close enough to scare me.

So, just normal rain showers....yeah, I'm ok. But when it comes to the lightening and all that....I am ready to pull the covers up over my head and hide. lol.

I thank God for all the pretty days....he he he.

Saphy