Texas Heat!

[Western]

Jim,
We where blessed for sure, I only got right at 3" since the 1st pass just grazed us. We did get the small hail, maybe not even pea size for the most part, so lucky there too. I think the bigger hail, the 3" stuff they talked about was closer to PK where the Tornado started.

Sure was a show too! Been awhile since I have seen that much lightning. Mother nature got this one right for me, no doubt about it.

 

[NativeSon]

Beautiful, beautiful rain!!!!!

About 5:00 this morning heard a little bit of thunder..... Then a lot of thunder and lighting and it started to drizzle when I went out to get the paper. It really started to come down about 5:20 and by 6:20 we had 1 1/8 in the rain gauge. Maybe some more this evening.....we sure hope. Temp dropped from
81 to 69 in about and hour. It's nice to see clouds.


Charlie

 

[Bird]

As the old saying goes, there was good news and bad news. Some of the loudest thunder and brightest and most continuous lightning I've seen and heard woke me just before 2:30 a.m., so I got up and looked at the rador on the Internet just before the strong winds and downpour hit and the power went off about 2:40 a.m. Sure glad I heated a cup of leftover coffee in the microwave as soon as I got up. I waited until 6:30 a.m. to call to report the power outage and their recording said the estimated time to restore power was 9 a.m. Then I went out and found about 2.10" of rain in my gauge (later found the next door neighbor's gauge showed the same). So just after 9 a.m., still with no power, we drove up to Denton for breakfast at the Cracker Barrel. Lots of tree damage in our neighborhood, but not to ours this time. We got back shortly after 11 a.m. and I called again and the estimated time to restore power had been changed to 4 A.M. (I thought I misunderstood maybe so I called again a little after 1 p.m to listen to that recording again and sure enough it was 4 A.M.) But fortunately, the power came back on at 3 p.m. today for which I am most grateful.

 

[jinman]

But fortunately, the power came back on at 3 p.m. today for which I am most grateful.

12 hours with no power. . . sounds familiar. Glad you are back online and your AC can cool your house. It rained hard here several times last night and we never lost power. During the daytime yesterday when it was so windy, we had power go off/on at least 6 times, but no loss during last night's storm.

 

[orezok]

Well it looks like we're back to normal temps here. 115 today and tomorrow they say it's going to get hot! Possibly 120.

 

[Bird]

12 hours with no power. . . sounds familiar. Glad you are back online and your AC can cool your house. It rained hard here several times last night and we never lost power. During the daytime yesterday when it was so windy, we had power go off/on at least 6 times, but no loss during last night's storm.

Jim, I guess we've just been lucky, but that 12 hours today was the longest outage we've ever had. When we lived down in Navarro County we had an 8 hour outage the morning of my Dad's funeral; November 7, 1996. That was the second longest. Of course we've had lots of outages from a few minutes to a couple of hours. We have our thermostat in the house set on 77, which is comfortable with the ceiling fans and fortunately, it was cool enough today that it only got to 82 in the house before the power came back on.

 

[sseelhoff]

Jim, I guess we've just been lucky, but that 12 hours today was the longest outage we've ever had. When we lived down in Navarro County we had an 8 hour outage the morning of my Dad's funeral; November 7, 1996. That was the second longest. Of course we've had lots of outages from a few minutes to a couple of hours. We have our thermostat in the house set on 77, which is comfortable with the ceiling fans and fortunately, it was cool enough today that it only got to 82 in the house before the power came back on.

Couple of years ago we had an outage that lasted two days. Obviously, we were not a priority. The temps after the storm blew through were triple digits. Man, that really sucked.

 

[Bird]

Couple of years ago we had an outage that lasted two days. Obviously, we were not a priority. The temps after the storm blew through were triple digits. Man, that really sucked.

Yep, 2 days would be tough, especially if it was during very hot or very cold weather. I guess it was the winter of 1979-80 that Dallas had an ice storm that was really tough. We we lucky in that our power never went off and we had natural gas, too. But a lot of folks in Dallas, including my boss, were without power for 4 days.

 

[deepNdirt]

Yep, 2 days would be tough, especially if it was during very hot or very cold weather. I guess it was the winter of 1979-80 that Dallas had an ice storm that was really tough. We we lucky in that our power never went off and we had natural gas, too. But a lot of folks in Dallas, including my boss, were without power for 4 days.

sounds like y'all had a close call out your way, we had a quick 30 minute storm come through on Sunday evening, dumped a good bit of rain in a short time, also hail and strong winds, many tree's lost limbs, power was out for 3 hours I got out to ride the neighborhood and found quite a lot of debris and a double car awning turned over leaning on the side of a house, of course wouldn't think it'd take much wind to turn one of them over,

At my place we are setup for Winter power outages with having a Generator to feed back through the dryer circuit to keep a couple lights on and the fridge going, We also have a wood burning stove, However we're not prepared for summer time power outages with temps into the 90's and I'm sure you folks out in Texas would have it worse in your kind of heat,
we have the alternitive..... set in our cars/truck let the A/C run, although that could get a bit expensive with todays fuel cost

 

[AGGIE00]

Right now I would love for a tropical storm Allison to come sit on us for a week or so. The days are getting harder and harder to make it through with no relief. I guess it's my own fault for choosing outdoor businesses.