Rude Awakening
|A little after 8:00 this morning and we’re peacefully sleeping in but awakened by sudden roar of wind. Sit up in bed and look out window, it doesn’t look bad, but the wind is getting even louder. Now we’re standing up and suddenly it sounds like hail pelting the house, including a really loud bang I think must be about the size of a grapefruit, and the wind has taken on that dreaded freight train sound. No sirens, but we skeedaddle for the basement, trying to grab flashlight and radio. Electricity goes out when we get to the closet. No sooner found radio station than it goes off the air. A couple minutes and the wind stops, but now the sirens. They last a few minutes and stop. Radio station is still off. Venture a look out the back, calm, although the doghouse is halfway across the yard, without its roof. Radio comes on and they’re talking about maybe a tornado, maybe a wind shear, maybe a microburst, but plenty of damage all around town. But, that was it. Electricity came back in about an hour. All day and they still can’t decide whether it was a tornado or something else. Also all day more really nasty weather all swung by just to the southeast. Yeah, I guess it’s springtime in Kansas. Oh, yeah, there was no hail. It was all the bits and pieces of trees and trash and neighbor’s roof pelting the house.|
The roof is in upper right, by the corner of the fence. Check out the green grass.
Neighbor’s probably getting a new roof. We only lost three or four shingles.|
P.S. Whoa! Watching 10:00 news. I didn’t know it was this bad! KU has cancelled classes tomorrow and placed campus off-limits to employees on account of all the down power lines and damage to buildings, and they’re showing an awful lot of pictures of cars crushed under trees, a mobile home cut in two with a tree down, another totally demolished, traffic signals blown off the poles, traffic signs bent over, beaucoups windows gone. Journal-World Photos. Wow. Of course, part of that might be from the partying after KU beat Texas for Big 12 Championship. 🙂
kathie says:
What’s a wind shear?
John says:
That’s where one person says, “Where’s the wind?” and another person says “Wind’shere!” Except it’s written “wind shear” for some reason I don’t know. :rotfl:
kathie says:
You’re so silly.
Alex says: