ES - Our storm adventure

[Yukon]

Your nextellancy,

    Your encounter with the storm is about the severest I've heard of from
our group and I am very pleased to hear that you and your lady are safe and
ok.  Sorry to hear about the damage to your truck but unlike
yourselves...it's repairable with insurance money :)  The good lord was
really looking out for us Elfsea folks.

Sean of Argyll
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Mitchell <pmitchel at flash.net>
To: elfsea at ansteorra.org <elfsea at ansteorra.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 6:57 AM
Subject: ES - Our storm adventure


>Allessandra & I came through the storm last night
>remarkably well, although that was in serious doubt
>for a time...
>
>We were headed home from work, coming south
>on 360, turning west on I-20.  The traffic was OK,
>but the rain was varying from quite heavy with a little
>hail, to remarkably light.  We got about to the
>New York St. overpass on I-20 when visibility dropped
>to about 5 feet, so I pulled over, along with many others.
>We were near, but not under the overpass, on the shoulder.
>
>The truck rocked back and forth, we heard clattering on
>the truck outside, and then suddenly the back window was
>broken in.  I grabbed something out of the back seat and
>held it up against the window to keep the hail out (learned
>later it was Timothy's armor bag, which we've been carrying
>around since the war).  Then the wind died down, but
>quickly picked up again from the other direction.  It was
>at this point that I realized we were in a tornado.
>
>Suddenly the windows on the passenger (Allessandra's) side
>of the truck were broken in, so I moved the bag to keep the
>hail and debris off Allessandra.  It was very scary.  When the
>wind died down, it occurred to me to turn on the radio, just
>in time to hear that the NWS had issued a tornado warning
>for Dallas County, because a tornado had touched down at
>I-20 and Collins (about 1/4 mile west of us) and was headed
>east at 25 mph.  News we could use.
>
>Visible in my rear-view was a semi lying on its side, and as
>we went forward, we passed another before we got off
>the highway at the next exit.
>
>We proceeded carefully home, through neighborhoods with
>no power, to find no apparant damage in our area (but just
>a mile or three from some of the worst damage); the Alan
>Keyes for President yard sign was still up in my yard.  We
>haven't lost so much as a shingle or a fence-picket.
>
>By the time we'd finished lighting candles and begun looking
>for food that didn't need cooking, the lights came back on,
>so we called over to Arabella's and invited the meeting over
>to our place.  Thanks for coming everybody; it was good to
>see faces after an adventure like that.
>
>- Galen & Allessandra
>
>
>
>
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