ES - Our storm adventure

[INEZ ADAMS]

Galen, thanks for the invite,  Sorry about the damage to your truck,
however better the truck than either
of you.    
Real good to see y"ll

Innes

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 07:18:23 -0600 "Paul Mitchell" <pmitchel at flash.net>
writes:
> 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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