So I come back to my room here at the Columbia Club in Indianapolis after the ISI dinner, and call Julie to say goodnight to the boys. She answers the phone like this: "We're fine!"
"Is something wrong?"
"You don't know?"
Turns out they've had tornadoes tonight in north Texas. "We've spent part of the night in the nook under the stairs," Julie said. "We went there when the tornado sirens went off."
Everybody at my house is okay, thank God, but I've been watching the live streaming broadcast from Dallas station WFAA, and the DFW area's had the hell beat out of it by the storm tonight.
North Texas blog readers, check in below. Are y'all all okay? Do you still have roofs?
I hate to be far from home on a night like this.
Tornadoes in Texas!
Friday April 13, 2007
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Carrollton had rain, a few minute-sized bits of hail, and slightly elevated winds. That was all. We had vastly more direct experience with tornados during ten years in Birmingham, AL, than we have had in eleven years in DFW.
Hi Rod, I thought of Julie last night -- I am sure that was no fun at all, based on my experience over here (our 7 year old was in the bathtub, with tears in his eyes, asking when I'd go get the mattress to put over him.) Lots of hail at my house (some larger than golf ball size!) but not much wind (which is what really does the damage in this neighborhood.)
But the scary part only lasted half an hour. While I am in general agreement that you should always be looking for ways to thank Julie for marrying you, I don't think it's quite as bad as you feared. :)
Got home from my 6 weeks at sea just in time for the storm to sweep through. No tornados here in Wood County, TX though; just lots o' rain, thunder, and lightening.
My wife and I were driving to Fort Worth from Lewisville just as the tornadoes and 3" hail struck Fort Worth. We pulled into the parking lot at Grapevine Mills to wait for the tornado warning to end - they told everyone near Grapevine and D/FW Airport to seek shelter immediately. We endured heavy rains and some hail thunking on our car roof, and then when the rain cleared, we got onto 121 and drove to Fort Worth and passed the site of the touchdown, I believe, just east of I-35W and downtown Fort Worth, at about 7:10 p.m. - we saw the twisted/ruined billboards and the downed trees and all the flashing lights by the service road where it was obvious that the block(s) had lost their power. We got to the Ashton Hotel and were told that they had earlier herded everyone into the basement. It was certainly/fortunately nothing like the tornado that hit downtown Fort Worth a number of years ago. Have a safe trip home!
Our corner of the Metromess came through OK.
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