Gotta love Texas weather...

[boxfan willy]

So last night around 8pm, Jen, the kids and I started watching the first night of the flame off webstream. About 30 minutes in, M-I-L calls to tell us there is a tornado warning. 5 minutes later, we had taken all the glass out of her office and brought in 3 mattresses. 3 minutes after that, it felt like a freight train went through our backyard. Holy shit!!! Kids had their bibles, tripping, but brave little troopers.
After we realized we lived through it, we got the kids to M-I-L's up the road and went back to check out the house. Our neigbor, 100 yards from us had a trre top through their front porch. Our damage was minimal. 2 miles down the road, on of our neighbors lost the top story of their house and the preacher lost his living room.
Thankfully, no one was hurt. Jen and I are wondering if we will ever get to see the flame-off.
We are haeding over this morning to take pics. Will post later.
God Bless Texas!

boxfan

[jr23]

Thank goodness your family is safe. I will be thinking positive thoughts for those who have lost in your area. My area of southern IL is know for tornado's we had some of the worst in our surrounding states. You guys and the oakies get it far worse. And they are so unpredictable, as big as our would seems events like these remind us how fragile we are.


Hope your surrounding folks made it to safety and all damage is the kind that hammers and nails can fix.

[Mr. Whale dick]

crazy...

[CitizenNot]

that's one thing i don't miss about living in texas

[Greymatter Glass]

Craziness....

Guess it's just Mother Nature;'s way of thanking you for the Flame off....

what a weird broad...

[The Glass Fish]

Glad to hear your OK. I'm only a couple hours west of you and we didnt even hear about anything till now. Crazy Texas weather.

[mort]

glad to hear your safe

[Aymie]

Hey Wil, do you work for the Flow?

Glad you guys are safe.

[Greymatter Glass]

Hey Wil, do you work for the Flow?

seriously?

[themoch]

Damn will,

glad to hear you and the family are okay.

[Aymie]

seriously?


It was something I overheard Wil being asked in Vegas...of course I know he and Jen ARE The Flow.

[Glacier_Arts_Studio]

any time you can walk away from a tornado, it's a good day...
glad your all fine... hope the rest of the season is kind to you as well...

..

[broken glass]

I guess that is one of the reasons houses are so cheap in Texas.

[seadal]

Glad you and your family are safe Will. I remember breaking my tornado cherry. Something I will never forget. The cleanup is a real pain. There are plenty of us here in Texas that are close enough to you, you need any cleanup help just say the word.

[naughty pirate wench]

Yikes! Glad to hear you, Jen and the kids are safe.

Sending good tornado-survival energy to Texas (and the rest of Tornado Alley),
C

[andrew brown]

Good to hear you are all safe.. Wish I could have made vegas.
Andrew

[vetropod]

Glad to hear you're okay!!!

[Ben Burton Glass]

Glad to hear you're all ok Big Willy!!

aloha

[boxfan willy]

We still don't have power and M-I-L is on dial up, so no pictures yet.
Here are a couple of links to the madness..

When you read the 2nd report, we live 7.7 miles north of Hughe Springs. Holy Crap!!!

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?s=10162732
http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:longview_news893:71864fb20cab6d228ccaf2aad790707 d/Cass-County-Sheriff-Tornado-hit-county-destroyed-home

[glassdocnc]

Holy Crap is right! So glad you all are ok!

[Greymatter Glass]

I hear they're still spinnin' houses out in your area... keep on eye open tonight.

[KT-Old School Glass]

Glad to hear you and the family are OK.

[loydb]

Glad y'all are ok. We got hail here, but no twisters.

[gypsea]

you sure don't get much warning with those. ya'll moved that glass & mattresses fast! i'm so glad you had no injuries.

[ALIEN!]

glad you're all all right. Im looking forward to tornado season up here in wisconsin, im one of them nuts that goes chasin after them. Weather like that just amazes me. On the other hand I pray I never wake up in the middle of one.

[Aymie]

The weather here is so crazy. Two weeks ago we had hail that smashed every car window in every parking lots for a ten mile stretch. Yesterday morning it was cold and rainy, then in the afternoon I could have tanned. Oh, the poles they are a changin'